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Estimated white population
4,016
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 Augustus Theodore Alt
(1731—1815) Early Sydney - 1796 pen and wash drawing |
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January......
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Reward offered for Bushranger
Black Caesar (Sydney)
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January......
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Scottish Martyr Thomas Muir
escaped from the colony on board American ship Otter
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January 16......
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Opening of the first theatre
in Sydney. The first performance of Edward Young's drama
The Revenge was followed by a farce called The Hotel. Robert
Sidaway a First Fleet convict was behind the venture.
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January 23....... |
Arrival of store ship Ceres
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February......
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Black Caesar shot and killed
by pursuers.......
Read more about the death of
Black Caesar
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February 11......
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Arrival of
Marquis Cornwallis from Cork. Master Michael Hogan.
Select
HERE to find
out more about the voyage of the Marquis of Cornwallis
Log Book of the Marquis Cornwallis - Library of New South Wales
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March
16......
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Death of Scottish Martyr
Joseph Gerrald
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March 19......
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Death of Scottish Martyr
William Skirving
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March......
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Exploration of
the South Coast and Port Hacking by Bass & Flinders
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April 30......
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Arrival of ship
Indispensable
with 131 female prisoners
and provisions for nine months after their arrival
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the Indispensable
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April......
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Resignation of assistant
surgeon Leeds. D'Arcy Wentworth appointed in his place
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May......
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Merino sheep introduced into
Australia by John Macarthur
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May 11.......
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Arrival of the store-ship Britannia from
Bengal with 957 tierces of salt provisions and rice. Chartered by Capt.
William Paterson of NSW Corps
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June....... |
Unsuccessful attempt to cross the Blue Mountains by George
Bass
A Description of the hardship endured by
George Bass and his party
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June.......
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Coal found in a bay near Port Stephens
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales From Its First Settlement in January 1788, to August 1801
- David Collins
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August.......
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William Balmain Principal Colonial
surgeon
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August...... |
Departure from the colony on the Britannia of
Captain David Collins, Captain William Paterson, Lieut. Abbott and Lieut.
Clephan.
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November....... |
Governor Hunter reports to the Duke of Portland that
there was 'being erected upon the high ground over Sydney, a strong
substantial and well-built windmill with a stone tower, which will last for
two hundred years and are preparing materials for another such at Parramatta'
A History of Colonial Wind powered
flour and grain mills at Morawa District Historical Society site |
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November.......
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Printing press first used by
convict George Hughes.
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