FEBRUARY

 

  Wreck of the Sydney Cove  on Preservation Island  

 

 

 
 
 

MAY

 

Coal discovered at Coalcliff.  

 

 

  Arrival of Britannia. Thomas Denott master.  
 

 

JUNE 2

 

Arrival of ship; Ganges. Surgeon James Mileham. Master Thomas Patrickson  

 

 

 

Mutiny on board transport Lady Shore

 

 
 
 

AUGUST

 

Colonial vessel Cumberland seized by prisoners  

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 19

 

 

 

Lieutenant Shortland returned to Sydney with the news that he had entered and named the Hunter River

Read David Collins' account

 

 
 
 

DECEMBER

 

Departure of George Bass, naval surgeon of HMS Reliance to explore South coast to Western Port  

 

 

 
 

DECEMBER

 

Shoalhaven River discovered by George Bass  
 

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