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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
1821 |
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January...... |
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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January 3....... |
Newcastle Christchurch spire damaged by lightning |
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January 9...... |
Arrival of the
Prince Regent convict ship.
Captain Francis Clifford. Surgeon Alexander Taylor.
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HERE to find out more about the
voyage of the Prince Regent. |
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January 17......
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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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February 8...... |
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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February
12...... |
Arrival of convict ship
Prince of Orange.
Master Thomas Silk. Surgeon Superintendent Shaw
Rutherford.
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Prince of Orange
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February 19...... |
Arrival of convict
ship
Lord Sidmouth
The Lord Sidmouth departed
Cork 4 November 1820 and arrived in Port Jackson 19
February 1821. Master James Muddle. Surgeon Thomas C.
Roylance
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HERE to
find out more about the voyage of the Lord Sidmouth
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March 8....... |
Stage coach commenced between Sydney and
Parramatta.
Passengers - two Ministers, 2 Bank directors
inside and 3 Officers of the 48th regt. outside passengers.
Bugles played the entire journey
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March 10.......
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Captain Francis Allman
appointed Commandant at Port Macquarie |
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March 10......
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Rev. George Augustus Middleton
appointed Assistant Chaplain at Newcastle
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March 12....... |
Arrival of
the convict ship
Dick
Master William Harrison.
Surgeon Robert Armstrong R.N. Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the
Dick
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March 13.......
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Death of former
NSW Governor John Hunter aged 83 years
 The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year (read more)
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March
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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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April....... |
Murrumbidgee River
explored by Charles Throsby |
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April
2....... |
Passengers on board the Jessie -
Henry Dangar, Robert Coram Dillon and
Alexander Livingstone.
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May 2....... |
Death of surgeon Thomas Arndell
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May 11....... |
Death of George Howe, founder and editor of Australia's first
newspaper (Sydney Gazette)
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May 18....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Speke.
Captain Peter McPherson. Surgeon Edward Coates.
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the Speke.
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June....... |
Government vessel Snapper
made the fastest voyage ever from Sydney to Newcastle and back
in 38 hours.
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July....... |
Death of commissary William Broughton
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July
9....... |
Wreck of the Phatisalam at Hunter Island, Bass
Strait. Captain Peter Dillon |
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September
8.......
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Arrival of
the convict ship
Adamant
Captain
William Ebsworthy. Surgeon James Hamilton.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Adamant.
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September
16....... |
Arrival of convict ship
Grenada
2
Captain Andrew Donald.
Surgeon
Peter Cunningham
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the
Grenada.
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October 25.......
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Sailed for Europe - The Duchess of York. Passengers
included G. Cathcart, William Redfern (& wife) and Edward
Eagar with Emancipist petition re convict attaint
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October....... |
Arrival of
John Rotton on the
Lusitania, Captain Langdon |
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November 1........ |
Governor Macquarie
departed on the Elizabeth Henrietta for a tour of inspection to Port
Macquarie and Newcastle |
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November 7..... |
Arrival of convict ship
John Barry.
Captain Roger Dobson. Surgeon Dan
McNamara.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the John Barry.
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November 7....... |
Arrival in Sydney of Sir Thomas Brisbane
and Australia's first government astronomer Christian Carl Ludwig Rumker on
the merchant ship Royal George, under Captain Powditch
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November..... |
Lieutenant William Lawson traverses the site
of Mudgee |
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November
17....... |
Unusually high tides in Sydney
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November 24........
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Arrival of convict ship
Hindostan.
Select here to read more
about the Hindostan |
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November
24........ |
Lieutenant E.C.
Close appointed engineer and inspector of public works at Newcastle |
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December 1.......
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Sir Thomas Brisbane became
Governor of the Colony Nineteen gun
salute to celebrate the occasion.... Read more here |
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December
15...... |
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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December 16......
Gravestone of John Bingle Newcastle
Cathedral Burial Ground
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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'
passenger on board. Military guard under Lieut. Hingston.
Select here to find out more
about the voyage of the Minerva |
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December
18....... |
Arrival of convict ship
John Bull.
Captain William Corlette. Surgeon William Elyard.
Find out more
about the voyage of the John Bull
HERE
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December....... |
Macquarie Harbour penal settlement established
in December 1821
See
The Forgotten Women Convicts, Macquarie Harbour 1821 - 1826 by Irene
Schaffer |
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