Some Events for New Zealand 21 March 2022 - 20 March 2023

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Aries ingress (21 March 2022)
- all of NZ under Orange
- Transmission Gully motorway opens (31 March)
- Vaccine pass restrictions eliminated (4 April)
- Matariki holiday passed into law (7 April)
- shift from Red to Orange (13 April)

Cancer ingress (21 June 2022)
- James Shaw dropped from Green co-leadership (23 July) and takes it up again (10 September)
- first Matariki holiday (24 June)
- All Blacks lose to Ireland (9 July)
- Waikato expressway Hamilton section opens (14 July)
- bad weather and some state highways closed (18-20 July)
- All Blacks lose series to Ireland (16 July)
- border fully opens to travel (31 July)
- All Blacks lose to South Africa (6 August)
- state of emergency declared on West Coast because of flooding, plus flooding and slips in Nelson and Tasman districts (16-20 August)
- Govt buys out Kiwibank (22 August)
- Firefighters go on strike (26 August)
- All Blacks lose to Argentina (27 August)
- Death of QEII (8 September)
- Covid traffic light framework ends (12 September)

Libra ingress (23 September 2022)
- heavy snow in SI and Taranaki (6 October)
- Peter Ellis conviction quashed (7 October)
- local elections (8 October)
- farmer tractor protest (20 October)
- wildfire in Caterbury (2 November)
- Black Ferns win World Cup
- All Blacks draw with England (19 November)
- minimum voting age declared by Supreme Court to violate human rights (21 November)
- Sandringham dairy stabbing (23 November)
- OCR lifted by 75 basis points (23 November)
- treaty settlement relating to Chathams (25 November)

Capricorn ingress (22 December 2022)
- severe weather in Coromandel (4 January)
- cyclone Hale hits Coromandel (10 January)
- Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as PM (19 January)
- Chris Hopkins takes over as PM (25 January)
- Flooding in Auckland (27 January - 1 February)
- 2023 Census (7 March)
- more flooding in North Island with loss of life (12 February onwards)
- NZ Women's Cricket knocked out of 20-20 World Cup after thrashings in first two games (late February)
- Northland shut off by road from rest of NZ (25 February)
- Minister of Police demoted for admitting that sentencing is a joke (mid-March)
- Black Caps win two tests in last over (vs England and vs Sri Lanka) (mid-March)