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Arrival of convict
transport
Neptune
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Captain Richard Tasker Furlong
appointed Assistant Engineer and Superintendent
of Ironed Gang at Newcastle |
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Site fixed upon for village of Mudgee, district Wellington.
£2 per acre |
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520 women and 130
children in the
Parramatta Female Factory |
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JANUARY 23
Rev Eipper |
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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.
Find the names of passengers on the Minerva who died:
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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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Tenders called for construction of small court house and lock
up at Seaham, N.S.W. |
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Waterloo Creek massacre of 100
- 300 indigenous Australians at Snodgrass Lagoon, Waterloo
Creek |
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50th Anniversary of the Colony celebrated with a regatta on
Sydney Harbour and a Public Holiday |
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George A. Middleton appointed Clerk to the Bench at
Raymond Terrace |
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Miner employed by
the
Australian Agricultural Company at Newcastle sentenced to 50 lashes for refusing to
go down into the mine |
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Tenders called for
building Court House at Muswellbrook |
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George Boyle White
appointed surveyor |
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Arrival of convict transport
Waterloo |
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Arrival of convict transport
Emma Eugenia |
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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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Sir
George Gipps took up his Appointment as Governor of the colony |
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Death
of Lieutenant-colonel Henry Dumaresq at Port Stephens
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Dinner in honor of
Colonel Snodgrass 
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Bushrangers Patrick Cuffe
and John Toole to be executed in Newcastle in the
presence of the Stockade men |
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Royal Victoria Theatre opened
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Foundation stone of St. Peter's Church laid
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Arrival of the convict ship
Diamond.
Master James Bisset |
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Arrival in Adelaide of the first of the 'Overlanders' Joseph Hawdon |
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Arrival of
the
William Jardine convict ship |
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Failed expedition by Lieut. Lushington & Sir George Grey to
North West coast of Australia |
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Death of colonial surgeon John Harris.
John Harris
took part in the expedition to Hunter's River in
1801 |
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Loss of the
coasting vessel Delight off Newcastle
Select here to read the account in the Sydney Gazette
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Botanic Gardens thrown open to the public by order of
Governor Sir George Gipps |
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Death of Rev. Samuel Marsden at Parsonage House, Windsor |
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Opening of David
Jones store in Sydney
Select here for the story of David Jones |
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Robert Barrington Dawson appointed Magistrate of the
Territory |
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Myall Creek Massacre.
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Cutter
Rover's Bride constructed at Cabbage Tree Point
(Norah
Head). Built by Korff from the wreck of the
Ceres. |
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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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Arrival of
the Westminster with 251 agricultural labourers
and tradesmen & their families from Kent |
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Arrival of
Bengal Merchant convict ship |
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Arrived the Ship Magistrate from Ireland with immigrants |
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Arrival
of
Lord Lyndoch
convict
ship |
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Arrival
of
Westmoreland
convict ship |
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Reward offered for apprehension of John Flemming, native place NSW, wanted in connection with
the Myall Creek murders |
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Arrival of Philanthropist Caroline Chisholm in Sydney |
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Arrival of convict
ship
Clyde |
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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
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Emigrant ship
Palmyra detained in quarantine. |
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Court of Petty Sessions to be established at Raymond Terrace |
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Settlement at Port Essington formed by James Bremer |
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Influenza prevalent in colony
causing many deaths. - Long lists of burials in the newspapers, events
cancelled.
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System of pre payment for letters introduced
by the colonial Postmaster General in Sydney |
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Proclaimed a General Day of Fasting by Governor Gipps |
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Arrival of the immigrant vessel 'Maitland' . Forty
passengers died after scarlet fever and typhus broke out
shortly after departing |
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Reward offered for
bushranger
Opossum Jack
(John Hobson) who had absconded from the Iron Gang at
Newcastle |
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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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Arrival of convict ship
Earl Grey |
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Death of pioneer Solomon Wiseman |
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Patrick Grant appointed Police Magistrate at
Newcastle |
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George Augustus Robinson appointed Chief
Protector of Aborigines in NSW |
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Arrival
of convict ship
Portsea |
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Arrival of the
barque
Elphinstone, Captain Thomas Flemlin with 232 male prisoners. Surgeon
Dr. Osborne. Passengers Captain Parker, Quarter Master William Kerr, 28th
regiment |
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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 |
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