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January
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May
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September
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Severe
drought in colony...
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Code of harbour
regulations and shipping laws brought into force at Newcastle |
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Market and fair
established at Parramatta |
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Death of Bennelong at Kissing Point |
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Glass bottle
blowing shop opened in Sydney by Simeon Lord |
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Arrival of Governor Davey in Tasmania |
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Arrival of
Archduke Charles with 199 prisoners on board |
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King's Wharf Sydney completed.
First public wharf in Colony |
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George Johnston returned to
Australia |
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Colonial schooner
Endeavour wrecked at Shoalhaven
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Convicts escape from Derwent River VDL in ship Unity |
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Benevolent Society established |
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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'. |
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Arrival of convict transport Fortune
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John Macarthur shipped 36
bales of wool to England |
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Foundation stone of Sydney
Lighthouse laid by Gov. Macquarie |
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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. |
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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) |
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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) |
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Birth of Ludwig Leichhardt |
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Assistant Surveyor George
William Evans followed in the tracks of Blaxland Lawson and
Wentworth across the Blue Mountains.
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John Lewin's Birds of New
Holland published.
Catalogue of Books By Henry George Bohn |
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