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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December |
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Launch of Henry Kable's whaler
King
George - the first of its type in Australia
King
George, Master William Moody, 185 tons in ballast to
the River Derwent 9 October 1805; returned to Port Jackson
5 April 1806 with 1 ton black whale oil; sailed to the
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Colonel Francis Grose of the New South Wales Corp appointed
Major-General |
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G.W. Evans,
Surveyor General, discharged for fraud |
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Lieutenant Menzies passenger to
Sydney on the Francis |
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Lieutenant Menzies
resigned from position of Commandant at Newcastle
The Gentleman's Magazine
Obituary of Charles
Menzies d. 22 August 1866
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Ensign Draffin appointed Commandant at Newcastle. |
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Charles Throsby appointed Magistrate and Superintendent of convicts at
Newcastle |
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Loss of the vessel 'Francis'
off Newcastle....... |
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An account of the settlement at
Newcastle by Charles Throsby to Governor King mentioning salt pans, cedar getting and the
difficulties with Ensign Draffin |
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Vessel 'Surprise' lost in a
gale north of Coal Island... |
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Troops sent to the Hawkesbury
after deaths of settlers at the hand of natives |
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Colonial cutter Nancy wrecked |
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William Bligh Esq., appointed Captain General and Governor in
Chief in and over the Settlement of New South Wales
(The Morning Chronicle 1st May 1805) |
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Correspondence to Governor
King with news that Captain William Bligh
was appointed Governor of New South Wales |
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John Grant who arrived on the
Coromandel in 1804 and was an associate of Maurice Margarot and
Henry Browne Hayes, wrote a letter to Governor King in 1805. Grant was
later convicted of sedition and sent to Norfolk Island. In 1808 he was
employed as a chaplain at Newcastle
Select here to read more about John Grant in 'This
Beauteous, Wicked place: Letters & Journals of John Grant' by Yvonne
Cramer |
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The schooner
Governor Hunter arrived in Sydney with 20,000lbs of salt on
account of the Government, made from the saltpans
worked at Newcastle under the direction of
Mr.Throsby. (SG)
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Abandonment of settlement at
Norfolk Island |
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Four convicts escape from
Newcastle and recaptured near Castle Hill |
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Hurricane at Newcastle |
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