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1813

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Severe drought in colony...

 
 

 

 

Code of harbour regulations and shipping laws brought into force at Newcastle  

 

 

 

JANUARY

 

Market and fair established at Parramatta  

 

 

Death of Bennelong at Kissing Point  
 

 

 

Glass bottle blowing shop opened in Sydney by Simeon Lord  

 

 

 

FEBRUARY 4

 

Arrival of Governor Davey in Tasmania  

 

 

 

FEBRUARY 16

 

Arrival of Archduke Charles with 199 prisoners on board  

 

 

 

MARCH

 

King's Wharf Sydney completed. First public wharf in Colony  

 

 

 

MARCH

 

George Johnston returned to Australia  

 

 

 

MARCH 13

 

Colonial schooner Endeavour wrecked at Shoalhaven

 

 

 

APRIL

 

Convicts escape from Derwent River VDL in ship Unity  

 

 

 

MAY 8

 

Benevolent Society established  

 

 

 

MAY 11 - JUNE 6

Party consisting of Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth and William Lawson find route across the Blue Mountains

The plaque on 'The Explorer's Tree reads - 'This wall and fence has been erected by the Hon. JS Farnell Esq Minister for Lands to preserve this tree marked by Blaxland, Lawson, Wentworth, being the farthest distance reached in their first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains in the Month of May AD 1813'.

 
 

JUNE 11

 

Arrival of convict transport Fortune  

 

 

John Macarthur shipped 36 bales of wool to England  

 

 

JULY 18

 

Foundation stone of Sydney Lighthouse laid by Gov. Macquarie  

 

 

 

AUGUST 4

 

73rd Regiment at New South Wales ordered to Ceylon. - Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell to go with them. Regiment at Guernsey(46th regt.,) to embark for NSW on ships Wanstead, Three Bees and General Hewitt.  
 

SEPTEMBER 30

1813 DUMP

To alleviate currency shortages,  'Holey Dollar' and 'dump' became legal tender. A piece struck out of the centre being valued at 15d. and the remainder of the dollar at 5s sterling. The Commissary-General also issued notes of one, two, five, and ten pounds each in payment of provisions, supplied by individuals to the Stores. The notes were to be consolidated monthly. (Morning Chronicle 7 March 184)  
 

OCTOBER 9

 

Arrival of Earl Spencer from Portsmouth. Master William Mitchell. Carrying 200 male convicts among whom were Capt. Davidson, Mr. Lindsay Crawford, several bankers' clerks, the men called Luddites and the smugglers of Christchurch who were convicted of aiding French prisoners to escape for France (Caledonia Mercury 10 June 1813)  

 

 

 

OCTOBER

 

Birth of Ludwig Leichhardt  

 

 

 

NOVEMBER

 

Assistant Surveyor George William Evans followed in the tracks of Blaxland Lawson and Wentworth across the Blue Mountains.  

 

 

John Lewin's Birds of New Holland published.

Catalogue of Books By Henry George Bohn

 

                   

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