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Total population in New South
Wales.....17,165 Total
population in Van Dieman's Land....3,214
Of the above there were
4,100 male convicts and 2340 female convicts and 850 of their
children
600 soldiers of the 48th
regiment
(The Morning Chronicle 28
November 1818) |
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Public
floggings end in 1818. All flogging hereafter to be administered in
barracks yards |
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Noted in the London newspapers that 'From the
long indiscriminate destruction of the whole tribe of seals, these valuable
animals have become as rare on the shores of New Holland and its adjacent
island, as they have lately proved in all other parts of the world.'
(The Morning Chronicle 28 November 1818) |
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Maitland established. Called 'The Camp', Molly
Morgan's Plains' and 'Wallis Plains' and later 'Maitland' |
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Great Western road completed. |
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Appointment of Rev. Richard Hill as Senior
Assistant-Chaplain of NSW |
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Australia Day celebrations
held |
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Overland route from Sydney to
Jervis Bay pioneered by Charles Throsby |
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Arrival of
Captain Francis Allman on the Minerva with 48th regiment. Also on
board 160 convicts for Hobart.
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Benjamin Singleton explored route to the Hunter Valley |
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Macquarie River explored by
Oxley
and Evans
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Tour of inspection of
Newcastle by Governor Macquarie |
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John Oxley sights the Warrumbungle Ranges, Liverpool Plains and the Peel River. |
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Port Macquarie named by John
Oxley
Oxley's expedition 1817 - 1818 (Project Gutenberg)
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Bushranger Michael Howe killed by Pugh
and Worrall on the banks of the Shannon River. VDL |
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Return of John Oxley's
expedition to Port Stephens |
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Captain James Morisset, 48th regt., appointed Magistrate and Commandant at Newcastle
in the room of Captain James Wallis
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Captain Wallis commended for the improvements
to Newcastle settlement while he was Commandant.
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