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Arrival of Nicholas Baudin at D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Van Diemen's Land
More about Nicholas Baudin's voyage |
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Attempt to cross the Blue
Mountains by George Caley
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Arrival in Port Phillip of Lieutenant Murray in the Lady Nelson |
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Arrival of Mathew Flinders at
Port Phillip
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Rations reduced in Sydney |
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Death of Thomas Fyshe Palmer
The fate of Thomas Fyshe Palmer in 'The
Monthly anthology, and Boston review' By Samuel Cooper Thacher, David
Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Anthology Society (Boston, Mass.),
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Arrival of
Convict transport
Coromandel
1 with male prisoners on board. Convict John Howe arrived on
the Coromandel |
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Arrival in Port Jackson of
Nicolas Baudin on the French ship Le Geographe |
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Arrival
of
Hercules
1 from Ireland with 121 male and female prisoners.
Fourteen convicts were killed after a mutiny on the voyage.
Matthew Flinders wrote in his diary that a Court of Vice-Admiralty was to be
held on 5th July "to try Mr. Lukyn Betts, master of the Hercules
transport, for putting to death several convicts said to be concerned in the
mutinous attempt" |
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Arrival of
the
Atlas
from Cork with well known prisoner Sir Henry Browne Hayes.
Other convicts by the Atlas
included Bligh supporter Roger Farrell, limeburner
Anthony Dwyer, and notorious Newcastle runaways
Patrick Ducey and
Thomas Desmond |
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Appointment of Robert Fitzgerald as Inspector and Director of
all Agricultural Settlements belonging to the Crown |
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Arrival of
Perseus
with 112 male convicts |
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Michael Rowland appointed
Superintendent of convicts |
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Appointment of
Charles Throsby
as Medical Officer at Castle Hill and Magistrate of the Territory |
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Appointment of Captain
William Kent, R.N., as Magistrate of the Territory |
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Departure from Parramatta of Francis Barrallier
in an attempt to cross the Blue Mountains |
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Oversupply of goods in the
colony after the arrival of ships with speculative cargoes |
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