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Colonel Lachlan Macquarie Governor of NSW
until December |
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First Court house built, Newcastle |
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19 executions in
the colony in this year |
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Limestone Plains, Canberra area explored by Charles Throsby |
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Two
men killed at Newcastle by lightning strike - Charles Louch
and Francis Farrell. |
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Newcastle Christchurch spire damaged by lightning |
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Arrival of Prince Regent convict ship |
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Two men, two women, and an infant, were
drowned in the Hunter's River about a mile from Newcastle when
their boat upset. They were Mrs. Allen, wife of a settler at Wallis Plains,
Mrs. Swan, also wife of a settler at Paterson’s
Plains, with her infant child, and Thomas Trainer
and Jeremiah O’Neil, prisoners.
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Commissioner John Thomas Bigge returned to Britain on the
Dromedary. Saluted with 13 guns from Dawes' Battery on his
embarkation from the Governor's Wharf. Two Flank Companies of
48th Regt., to parade under Arms in Macquarie Place as Guard
of Honour to the Commissioner.
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Arrival of convict ship
Prince of Orange |
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Arrival of convict ship Lord
Sidmouth |
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Stage coach commenced between Sydney and
Parramatta. Passengers - two ministers, 2 bank directions
inside and 3 officers of the 48th regt. outside passengers.
Bugles played the whole way
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Captain Francis Allman
appointed Commandant at Port Macquarie |
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Rev.
G.A. Middleton appointed Assistant Chaplain at Newcastle |
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Arrival of convict ship Dick |
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Death of former
NSW Governor John Hunter aged 83 years |
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Settlement at Port Macquarie founded by
Captain Francis Allman. Soldiers,
stores and convicts to Port Macquarie in the schooner Prince Regent,
brig
Lady Nelson and cutter Mermaid. Lieut. William Wilson of 48th
regt., appointed Engineer and Inspector of public works |
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Murrumbidgee River
explored by Charles Throsby |
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Arrived on board the Jessie -
Henry Dangar, Robert Coram Dillon and
Alexander Livingstone.
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Death of surgeon Thomas Arndell |
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Death of George Howe, founder and editor of Australia's first
newspaper (Sydney Gazette) |
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Arrival of convict ship
Speke. Passengers included Rev. Kendall of the Church
Missionary Society; Henry Grattan Douglass, Assistant Surgeon
of medical establishment, with wife and family; Mr. & Mrs.
Mulgrave; Mr. Phelps and two New Zealand chiefs who had been
in London and were returning to NZ; Mr. Mulgrave coming with
the purpose of establishing a national system of education in
VDL |
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Government vessel Snapper
made the fastest voyage ever from Sydney to Newcastle and back
in 38 hours. |
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Death of commissary William Broughton |
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Arrival of convict ship
Adamant |
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Arrival of convict ship
Grenada 2 |
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Sailed for Europe - The Duchess of York. Passengers
included G. Cathcathcart, William Redfern (& wife) and Edward
Eagar with Emancipist petition re convict attaint |
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Arrival of John Rotton on the
Lusitania, Captain Langdon |
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Arrival of convict ship John Barry 2 |
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Arrival in Sydney of Sir Thomas Brisbane
and Australia's first government astronomer Christian Carl Ludwig Rumker. |
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Lieutenant William Lawson traverses the site
of Mudgee |
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Unusually high tides in Sydney |
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Arrival of convict ship Hindostan |
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Lieutenant E.C.
Close appointed engineer and inspector of public works at Newcastle |
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Sir Thomas Brisbane became
Governor of the Colony Nineteen gun
salute to celebrate the occasion |
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Arrival of the Mariner, Captain
Douglass from London. Passengers
William Dun , wife & two children;Mrs. Reiby, Miss Reiby,
Miss Jane Reiby; Lieut. & Mrs. Thompson; George Reiby; Mr. McLeod; Master
Howe; Henry Moore; Henry Davis; Dr. H.E. Church; Henry Hawse; Henry Owen,
Mrs. Stroud; Master William Apsey; Alex. Tompsey; Cornelius Dempsey. |
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Arrival of Minerva convict ship
with169 male convicts. Mariner John Bingle, later referred to as 'the
father of commerce in Newcastle'
on board. Military guard under Lieut. Hingston |
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Arrival of convict ship
John Bull, Captain Corlette. With 80 female prisoners from Ireland.
Surgeon Dr. Elyard with wife and 5 children. John Lawrie, a soldier came
passenger with wife and 5 children |
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Macquarie Harbour penal settlement established |
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