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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
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September
October
November
December |
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Estimated population 12,471 |
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Detachment of 73rd
regiment stationed at Newcastle |
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Arrival of convict transport Guildford from London.
Convict artist William Harrison Craig on board |
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John Oxley appointed Surveyor General of New South Wales |
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Coalmines and cedar camps at
Newcastle visited by Governor Macquarie |
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Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Davey appointed
Lieutenant-Governor of the settlements at Van Diemen's Land |
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Surveyor George W. Evans departed Sydney in the
Lady Nelson and reached Jervis Bay the following day |
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George Evans and party set out from Jervis Bay
camping nearby present day Wollongong on 11 April |
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News reached England of the discovery of Macquarie Island and
that 80,000 seals had already been caught at the island in just a few months |
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Ship Campbell
Macquarie wrecked on Macquarie Island
The cargo
of 1650 seal skins, was lost. Capt. Siddons with the Officers and crew,
saved themselves on the island; and, after residing there from the 10th of
June to 11th October were discovered and taken off by the brig
Perseverance of Port Jackson. (Ipswich Journal 11
Dec., 1813) |
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War on Britain declared by United States of America. |
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Select Committee Report to the House of Commons on
transportation to New South Wales |
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Colonial vessels Sally and Boyd wrecked |
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Convict transport Minstrel arrived at Port Jackson. Elizabeth Hannell
prisoner on board |
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Emu enroute to Hobart with female convicts seized by American
privateer Holkar |
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Departure of the Isabella, Captain George
Highton. Wrecked on an Island of the Falklands in February 1813.
Passengers on board included Captain Drury, 73rd Regiment, wife
and family; 'General' Joseph Holt (Irish rebel leader) wife and
family; Sir Henry Browne Hayes; 3 returned female convicts; Mr.
Madison and three marines and their wives. (Morning Chronicle (London) 21 June 1813) |
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