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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December |
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Drought continues |
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Lieutenant Colonel
Kenneth Snodgrass administrator of colony until 23 February |
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David Jones store
opened in Sydney |
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Arrival of
ornithologist John Gould in Australia |
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Gladesville Mental
asylum built in Sydney |
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Early postmistress
in Australia Mary Anne Rutledge (Cassilis) |
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Waterloo Creek massacre of 100
- 300 indigenous Australians at Snodgrass Lagoon, Waterloo
Creek |
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Arrival of convict
transport Neptune II |
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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 Female Factory, Parramatta |
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Arrival of
Minerva with immigrants quarantined after typhus fever
broke out. |
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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
The journal of a journey from New South Wales to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, performed in 1838 |
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Tenders called for construction of small court house and lock
up at Seaham, N.S.W. |
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50th Anniversary of
the Colony celebrated with a regatta on Sydney Harbour and
declared a public holiday |
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George A. Middleton appointed Clerk to the Bench at
Raymond Terrace |
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James Dowling
appointed Chief Justice of Supreme court of New South Wales |
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Miner employed by
A.A. Co. 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 acting Governor Colonel Snodgrass |
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Arrival of Sir George Gipps on the vessel Upton Castle. |
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Sir
George Gipps governor of the colony |
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Death
of Lieutenant-colonel Dumaresq at Port Stephens |
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Bushranger Patrick Cuffe to be executed in Newcastle in the
presence of the Stockade men |
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Royal Victoria Theatre opened
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Arrival of ship
Achilles, Captain Veale. |
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Arrival in Adelaide of the first of the 'Overlanders' Joseph Hawdon |
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Arrival of
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 |
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Loss of the
coasting vessel Delight off Newcastle
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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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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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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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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.
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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 Gov. Gipps |
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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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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 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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