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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December |
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Treadmill introduced to Carter's Barracks in
Sydney by 1823 |
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Responsibility for
allocation of convict labour assumed by Colonial Secretary instead of
Superintendent of Convicts |
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Gregory Blaxland awarded
silver medal for first wine exported in bulk to London |
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Distilling of spirits permitted |
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Third and final report on N.S.W. issued by Commissioner Bigge |
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Death at Annandale of George Johnston, former Lieut. colonel
of 102nd regt.
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Discovery of gold at Fish River near Bathurst by surveyor
James McBrien |
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Vessel 'Calder' wrecked near Newcastle |
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Saxe Bannister appointed first Attorney
General for NSW |
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Agricultural settlement established at Wellington Valley by
Percy Simpson, soldiers and convicts |
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Road
from Richmond to Wallis Plains opened for droving |
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Death of convict lawyer George Crossley, Pitt St. Sydney aged 75 years |
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T/L
convicts John Finnegan, Thomas Pamphlet and Richard Parsons
shipwrecked on Moreton Island
after being blown off course while sailing from Sydney to Illawarra |
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Arrival of John Dunmore Lang in Sydney |
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Monaro district
explored by Capt. Mark Currie and Major John Ovens |
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The Murrumbidgee
river discovered by Captain Currie and Major Ovens |
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Pandora's Pass through the Liverpool Range found by botanist
Allan Cunningham |
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James Mitchell appointed assistant surgeon at Sydney Hospital |
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Arrival of settler John Earl
with wife and family on the Thalia |
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Act
of British Parliament passed which set up a Legislative
council in NSW |
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James McClymont and
his wife Nancy, Rev. J.D. Lang, John Larnach,
Beresford Hudson and Henry
Hewitt arrived in Van Diemen's Land on board the ship Andromeda |
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Arrival of Hunter Valley settlers
John Eales and
John Cobb in Hobart on board the Francis |
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Arrival of 3rd Regiment (Buffs). To replace 48th Regiment |
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Regular service between Sydney and Newcastle established by
cutter Eclipse. |
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Discovery of a new route
across the Blue Mountains from Richmond to Cox's River by
Archibald
Bell junior. This became known as the Bell's Line of Road. It
was planned that the lately disbanded Veteran corp were to be
settled along this line.
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Arrival of Hunter Valley settler Edward G. Cory
passenger on
the Allies |
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Royal Veteran Company disbanded |
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John
Oxley leaves Sydney on the cutter Mermaid to assess Port Curtis,
Moreton Bay and Port Bowen |
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New
Supreme Court of NSW constituted. Letters Patent sealed, known
as Third Charter of Justice (Court opened May 1824) |
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Vessel 'Mars' 30 ton sloop built at Newcastle |
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Exploration of Brisbane River by John
Oxley
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Captain Gillman appointed Magistrate at Newcastle |
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