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Drought
continues....
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Departure of the Supply
for Norfolk Island with more convicts. A party left on Lord Howe Island to
'turn turtles'. |
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Departure from
England of the Second Fleet |
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Departure from
Sydney of H. M. Sirius |
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Sirius
wrecked off Norfolk Island. |
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News of the wreck
of the
Sirius reached Sydney by the Supply. Famine threatened the colony
necessitating a reduction of rations |
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Departure of the
Supply for Batavia to obtain supplies |
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First salt made
at Dawe's Battery, Sydney |
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Arrival of the
Lady Juliana
with provisions and 221 female convicts and news of the outbreak of the
French Revolution |
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Arrival of
storeship
Justinian in Sydney Cove |
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Arrival of
remainder of Second Fleet -
Surprize, Neptune and Scarborough with a detachment of
New South Wales Corps sent to replace the Marines. Darcy Wentworth assistant
surgeon. |
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Two marines and a
midshipman drowned in Sydney Harbour when their boat was destroyed by a
whale 
Captain Tench's Account of the Colony in The British Critic
Volume 2 |
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Governor Phillip
speared in the shoulder by aborigine Willemering
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Five convicts
escape from Rose Hill - John Tarwood, Joseph Sutton, George Lee, George
Connoway and John Watson |
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Return of the
Supply with provisions
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John McEntire,
Governor Phillip's game shooter, speared by native Pemulwuy of the Bejigal
tribe |
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