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  Captain Philip Gidley King Governor of colony until August 1806

Population of Newcastle 103

Lieutenant Philip Gidley King. National Archives of Australia

 
 
 
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  First triplets born in the colony  
 
 

 

 

FEBRUARY 15 (?18)

 

 

  Arrival of convict ship Tellicherry. Thomas Cuzens master

Convicts on the Tellicherry included Michael Dwyer, John Mernagh, Hugh Byrne, Martin Burke and Arthur Devlin who were granted permission 'to banish themselves for life to NSW to avoid being brought to trial for treasonable practices.' (HRA Vol V., p 841)

Governor King's  concerns re the 'Wild Schemes' of the Irish convicts

 

 
 
 

MARCH

 

  Catastrophic flooding at the Hawkesbury. 5 people drowned

Account of the 1806 Flood in the 'Sydney Gazette'

 

 
   

 

Arrival of convict ship William Pitt - Free settler Gregory Blaxland passenger on board. The William Pitt departed Falmouth 10th August 1805 and from Cork 31st August; she called at Madeira and San Salvadore and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on January 4th 1806, four days before the Battle of Blaauwberg. The ships log records that constant firing of cannon and musketry of the English and Dutch armies could be heard. The ship sailed from the Cape on the 9th January. She took a total of 222 days to reach Port Jackson (The Convict Ships, Charles Bateson., Library of Australian History, Sydney 1983, p. 188)

Read about the Battle of Blaauwberg

 
    News of the Battle of Trafalgar reaches the colony  
 

 

MAY

 

 

  Vessel Governor King wrecked near Newcastle

 Read account in the Sydney Gazette here

 
 
 

 

JUNE

 

 

   

Colonial brig Venus seized by crew & convicts off Port Dalrymple, VDL and taken to New Zealand. Captain Chace of the Venus returned to Sydney on the vessel Governor Hunter on the 8th July

More about the Mutiny on the Venus HERE

 

 
    Arrival of convict ship Fortune  
 
 

AUGUST 13

 

 

  Appointment of William Bligh in place of Governor King.  
 

 

 

AUGUST 20

 

  Arrival of convict ship Alexander 1 from England, Captain Brooks with 14 male and 42 female prisoners, all healthy and with the loss of one male convict on the passage out and one child  
 
 

 

AUGUST 24

 

 

 

Address to Governor Bligh by Officers Civil and Military & Free Inhabitants -  the Sydney Gazette

 
 
 
 

SEPTEMBER 24

 

  Heavy hailstorm at the Hawkesbury  
 
 

 

OCTOBER

 

 

  Stricter Port regulations issued by Governor Bligh - Read More Here  
    New South Wales Corp. promotions

War Office, Nov. 18. - New South Wales corps - Brevet Major George Johnston to be Major, without purchase. Lieut. John Piper to be Captain of a company, vice Johnston. Ensign Hugh Piper to be Lieutenant, vice J. Piper. Ensign William Lawson to be Lieutenant. Caledonian Mercury 24 November 1806

 
 
 

DECEMBER

 

 

  Lieutenant William Lawson temporarily Commandant at Newcastle in the absence of Charles Throsby  
 

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