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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December |
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Colonel William Paterson administrator
of the colony from 9
January to 31 December |
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First
Presbyterian church in Colony built at Ebenezer on Hawkesbury River, NSW |
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Rev. Robert Cartwright
appointed senior Assistant Chaplain, N.S.W |
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Removal of settlers from Norfolk Island |
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Arrival of Aeolus convict
transport. Robert Addie master
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Boarding of HMS Porpoise by Governor William Bligh |
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Bligh to Hobart. Macarthur and
Major Johnston sail to England to present their case. |
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APRIL
Commemorative stamp |
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First post office established
in the Colony The Postal history of New South Wales, 1788-1901 |
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APRIL 25
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Isaac Nichols proclaimed first
postmaster
The Present Picture of New South Wales By David Dickinson Mann |
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Lieutenant Colonel Lachlan
Macquarie appointed Governor of New South Wales
Downing Street 27 April 1809 -
The King has been pleased to appoint lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Macquarie of
his Majesty's 73rd regiment of foot, to be Governor and commander in Chief
in and over is Majesty's settlement of New South Wales and its dependencies. London Gazette 4 May 1809) |
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Departure of the Hindostan, Captain Pasco, and
the Dromedary Captain Pritchard, from Portsmouth with a detachment of
the 73rd regiment and Governor Macquarie and his family on board |
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Record floods at the
Hawkesbury river |
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Arrival of Experiment II from
Cork with 60 female convicts |
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More flooding at the
Hawkesbury. Major Johnston lost 490 sheep and Mr. McCallum 300
in the floods. The Governor issued a proclamation, forbidding for a limited
time, the slaughtering of live stock without a special licence.
The History of New South Wales By O'Hara, James O'Hara |
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Arrival of Convict transport Boyd from Cork
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The first detachment of the 73rd Regiment arrived in New
South Wales on board the convict transport Boyd. Three officers.
Captain Cameron & Lieuts. John Pike and Thomas Wright. 137 male
convicts, 5 having died on the passage out (HRA., Series 1., Vol.VII,
p.175) |
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Arrival of Rev. William Cowper in Sydney |
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Arrival of the
Indispensable, Captain
Best, with 61 female prisoners, all in a healthy state.
Newcastle surgeon
William
Evans arrived on the
Indispensable as surgeon superintendent |
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William Evans appointed
colonial surgeon |
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Crew of the ship Boyd murdered by cannibals at New Zealand |
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Lieutenant Wright appointed
Commandant at Newcastle in the temporary absence of William Lawson |
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The New South Wales Corps to
be replaced by 73rd regiment. |
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Arrival of the Hindostan
with a battalion of
73rd Regiment in Sydney with Major General Lachlan Macquarie |
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Arrival in Sydney of Ellis Bent, judge advocate of NSW on the
Hindostan
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NSW Corps renamed 102nd
Regiment |
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