But today's incident appeared to mark the first time settlers were detained.
During this time, settlers and the Crown confiscated 18 million acres of land from Māori, which dramatically reduced their autonomy and their economic output.
At that time, settlers began clearing land along the James River (the navigable part of which was called Hampton Roads) for plantations, including the present area of Newport News.
But the settler movement wasn't allowed to touch private property", said Daniella Weiss, mayor of the Kedumim settlement and a long-time settler figurehead.
At times settlers' cattle were the only available form of subsistence.
Or the time a settler woman grabbed a ten-year-old Palestinian kid, stuffed rocks in his mouth and then forced his mouth closed, breaking his teeth, all while fighting off an Israeli soldier who was trying to intervene.
At the same time, Bavarian settlers penetrated into the valleys of Kärnten and Steiermark.
Some of them appear to have been dug in the eight months between September 1609 and May 1610, the period that contemporary accounts call the "starving time", when settlers ate rats, dogs, snakes, horses and cats.
That effort, known as the Great Expulsion, rid the British of a French political rival; at the same time the settlers gave the British a base of support, as new immigrants fished and settled towns.
Here is some clever, ready-to-print times tables settler activity and, what's more, no marking is required – students work out the solutions to 20 questions and cross out their 20 answers on the grid.
At the same time, Han settlers have long been present in all of the regions in the ethnic minority areas that are accessible by transportation and are business strongholds.
