When Toha Nye Winiata was born in 1891, in New Zealand, his father, Winiata Pataka, was 44 and his mother, Ema Te Hapai "Te Hapai Hinematiora Emma" Nicholson, was 32. He married Te Awe about 1881, in New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died in 1964, in his hometown, at the age of 73.
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New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
The National Council of Women of New Zealand was created as an organization after women won the right to vote. Today works to help achieve gender equality in New Zealand and in 2017 introduced Gender Equal NZ, which is fighting for Zealanders to have the freedom and opportunity to determine their own future no matter which gender they are.
Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
From the Arabic letters ṭa and ha, the opening letters of the twentieth sura in the Qur‘an.
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