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Other American Territories (cont.).

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Other Asiatic Territories.

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1864–5. Opposition to and promised cessation of transportation of convicts to Australia.

1866. End of Maori war in New Zealand.

1868. New Zealand Government Act.

1874. Fiji ceded to Great Britain.

1875. Maori king submits to British authority.

1882. Completion of Melbourne-Sydney railway.

1885. Federation of Australasian colonies (New South Wales and New Zealand were not included).

1891. National Australasian Federation Convention : title of Commonwealth of Australia adopted.

1900. Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act.

1901. Annexation of Cook and other Pacific Islands to New Zealand.

1901. Lord Hopetoun Governor General of Australia; first Federal Parliament.

1902. Lord Tennyson Governor-General of Australia.

1904. Lord Northcote Governor-General of Australia.

1907. New Zealand constituted a Dominion. Lord Denman Governor-General of Australia.}}