← 1835 1834 1833 1836 in New Zealand → 1837 1838 1839
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	History of New Zealand List of years in New Zealand Timeline of New Zealand history

The following lists events that happened during 1836 in New Zealand.

Incumbents

Regal and viceregal

• Head of State – King William IV
• Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke

Government and law

• British Resident in New Zealand – James Busby
• Additional British Resident in New Zealand – Thomas McDonnell until his resignation in July.^[1]

Events

• July
  • – Additional British Resident in New Zealand, Thomas McDonnell resigns.^[1]
• 26 December – John Hughes, W.I. Haberfield and others from the Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou arrive in the Magnet and set up a whaling station on the north side of Moeraki Point.^[2]

Undated

• Captain John Howell is sent by whaler and merchant Johnny Jones to establish a whaling station at Riverton to replace that recently abandoned at Preservation Inlet.^[3][4] (see also 1829 and 1835)
• The Stone Store at Kerikeri, the oldest stone building in New Zealand, is completed mid-year.
• Late in the year Alfred Nesbitt Brown closes the mission at Matamata.^[5] (see also 1835 & 1838)

Sport

Cricket

Births

• 14 January (in England): Thomas Hocken, collector and bibliographer.

Unknown date

(in Ireland) Richard Reeves, politician.