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January 2.......
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Arrival of convict
ship
Neptune
II
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the
Neptune
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January 6....... |
Captain Richard Tasker Furlong appointed Assistant Engineer and Superintendent
of Ironed Gang at Newcastle
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January 9....... |
Site fixed upon for village of Mudgee, district Wellington.
£2 per acre |
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January 16....... |
520 women and 130
children in the
Parramatta Female Factory |
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January 23.......
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Arrival of
Minerva with immigrants; quarantined after typhus fever
broke out. Read about
Rev. Christopher Eipper and other
passengers who arrived
on the Minerva.
 Rev Eipper
Find the names of passengers on the Minerva who died:
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January 23.......
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Joseph Hawdon overlanded 335 cattle 1,000 miles in 10 weeks on the route
that became known as The Sydney Road
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January 23.......
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Tenders called for construction of small court house and lock
up at Seaham, N.S.W.
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January
26.......
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Waterloo Creek massacre
of 100 - 300 indigenous Australians at Snodgrass Lagoon,
Waterloo Creek. Find out more about
Major James Nunn
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January 26....... |
50th Anniversary of the Colony celebrated with a regatta on
Sydney Harbour and a Public Holiday |
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January....... |
Mr. Middleton appointed Clerk to the Bench at Raymond Terrace |
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February....... |
Miner employed by
the
Australian Agricultural Company at Newcastle sentenced to 50 lashes for refusing to
go down into the mine
Find out
who it was here |
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February....... |
Tenders called for
building Court House at
Muswellbrook |
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February 6....... |
George Boyle White
appointed surveyor |
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February 8....... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Waterloo
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HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Waterloo
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February 9....... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Emma Eugenia
from London
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Emma Eugenia
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February...... |
Application for purchase of town allotments at Raymond Terrace
approved by the acting Governor, Colonel Snodgrass |
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February 23.......
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Arrival of Sir George Gipps on the vessel Upton Castle.
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February 24....... |
Sir
George Gipps took up his Appointment as Governor of the colony
on 24th February 1838 |
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March 5.......
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Death
of Lieutenant-colonel Henry Dumaresq at Port Stephens
(Read the obituary of
Henry Dumaresq
here)
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March 8....... |
Dinner in honor of
Colonel Snodgrass
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March....... |
Bushrangers
Patrick Cuffe
and John Toole to be executed in Newcastle in the
presence of the Stockade men |
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March 20....... |
Royal Victoria Theatre opened |
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March 20.......
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Foundation stone of St. Peter's Church laid
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March 28....... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Diamond.
Master James Bisset
Select
HERE to
find out more about the voyage of the
Diamond |
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April.......
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Arrival in Adelaide of the first of the 'Overlanders' Joseph Hawdon
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April 11....... |
Arrival of
the convict ship
William Jardine
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HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
William Jardine
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April....... |
Failed expedition by Lieut. Lushington & Sir George Grey to
North West coast of Australia |
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April 27....... |
Death of colonial surgeon John Harris.
John Harris
took part in the expedition to Hunter's River in
June
1801 |
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April....... |
Loss of the
coasting vessel Delight off Newcastle
Select here to read the account in the Sydney Gazette
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April 30....... |
Botanic Gardens thrown open to the public by order of
Governor Sir George Gipps |
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May 12....... |
Death of Rev. Samuel Marsden at Parsonage House, Windsor |
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May 24....... |
Opening of David
Jones store in Sydney |
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June....... |
Robert Barrington Dawson appointed Magistrate of the
Territory |
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June 9 / 10....... |
Myall Creek Massacre.
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June....... |
Cutter
Rover's Bride constructed at Cabbage Tree Point,
Norah Head. Built by Korff from the wreck of the
Ceres. |
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June 1.......
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Departure from Port Jackson of the Minerva for
Liverpool. The Sydney Gazette reported that
the steerage passenger on the Minerva was Mr.
Crawford. Crawford was the claimant of the
Earldom of Crawfurd and Lindsay with the estate attached
valued at 20,000 per annum (SG 2 June
1838)
In 1812 John Lindsay Crawford was sentenced to 14 years
transportation for committing forgery in an attempt to
make claim to the Estate. He arrived in Port Jackson on
the Earl Spencer in 1813 and later returned to
England. After his death Crawford's heirs continued to
make claims to the estate.
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June 27....... |
Arrival of
the Westminster with 251 agricultural labourers
and tradesmen & their families from Kent |
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July
21....... |
Arrival of
convict ship
Bengal Merchant
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Bengal Merchant
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July 21....... |
Arrival of the the Ship Magistrate from Ireland with immigrants |
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August 8....... |
Arrival of the
convict ship
Lord Lyndoch.
Master William Stead
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the Lord Lyndoch
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August 22....... |
Arrival
of the convict ship
Westmoreland.
. Master John Brigstock. Surgeon George McClure
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Westmoreland |
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August 27........ |
Arrival of the convict
ship
John Renwick.
Select
HERE to find
out more about the voyage of the John Renwick |
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September....... |
Reward offered for apprehension of John Fleming, native place NSW, wanted in connection with
the Myall Creek murders |
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September........
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Arrival of Philanthropist Caroline Chisholm in Sydney
Caroline Chisholm Cottage - Maitland
Caroline Chisholm
courtesy of the
State Library of Queensland
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September 10....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Clyde
Select
HERE to find
out more about the voyage of the
Clyde |
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September 18.......
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Arrival in Hobart
of ornithologist John and Elizabeth Gould, their son J.H. Gould and nephew
Henry Coxen on the
Parsee, having departed London 16th May 1838
Visit Treasures from the National Library - John
Gould's birds of Aust
Elizabeth Gould was a sister
of Stephen Coxen. Select
here
to find the location of of Coxen's estate in the
Hunter Valley
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September 26....... |
Emigrant ship
Palmyra detained in quarantine. |
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October 2....... |
Arrival of the
Coromandel carrying Bounty Immigrants.
Search State Records of New South Wales Online Microfilm of
Bounty Ships
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October 3....... |
Arrival of the
John McLellan carrying Bounty Immigrants |
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October 16....... |
Court of Petty Sessions to be established at Raymond Terrace |
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October 26........ |
Settlement at Port Essington formed by James Bremer |
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November ....... |
Influenza prevalent in colony
causing many deaths. - Long lists of burials in the newspapers, events
cancelled. |
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November....... |
System of pre payment for letters introduced
by the colonial Postmaster General in Sydney |
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November
2........ |
Proclaimed a General Day of Fasting by Governor Gipps |
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November 2....... |
Arrival of the immigrant vessel 'Maitland' . Forty
passengers died after scarlet fever and typhus broke out
shortly after departing |
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November
12....... |
Reward offered for
bushranger
Opossum Jack
(John Hobson) who had absconded from the Iron Gang at
Newcastle |
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November 19....... |
Tarban Creek
Mental Asylum established. First patients arrived 19th November
Select
here for a description of Tarban Creek Asylum in 1849
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November 21....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Earl Grey. Master James
Talbot. Surgeon Alexander Nisbett,
Select
HERE to
find out more about the voyage of the Earl Grey
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November 28....... |
Death of pioneer Solomon Wiseman |
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December....... |
Patrick Grant appointed Police Magistrate at
Newcastle |
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December 11....... |
George Augustus Robinson appointed Chief
Protector of Aborigines in NSW |
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December 18....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Portsea
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HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Portsea |
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December 29....... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Elphinstone, Captain Thomas Flemlin
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the
Elphinstone |
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December 31.......
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Arrival of the barque
Francis Spaight from London; 370 tons; Captain Sayers. Passengers Rev.
Dr. Ullathorne R.C. Vicar General; Rev. P.B. Gloghegan, Rev. Richard Marvin,
Rev. Thomas Butler + Sisters of Charity |
