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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December |
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Moreton Bay
to close as penal settlement
State of Religion and Education in New
South Wales By William Westbrooke Burton
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Bushrangers
'THE
JEWBOY GANG' form in Hunter Valley |
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New
Commandant of Norfolk Island Major Bunbury of 80th
Regiment |
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Convicts
begin preparing Garden Island for construction of a
fort
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Wreck of
the barque Children east of Portland Bay, Vic.
16 drowned |
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Sir Francis
Forbes returned to the colony on vessel Alfred.
Also on board 280 emigrants |
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Death of
Frederick Dixon at Maitland. Former superintendent of
Government works at Newcastle |
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Dr. Lang
returned to England and notorious swindler Henry
Turner Harrington attempted to escape his creditors on
vessel Roslyn Castle. |
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Arrival of
ship Hashemy. Passenger on board former A. A.
Company agent Robert Dawson |
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Squatters
to pay variable tax as well as licence fee. Revenue
from tax for border police |
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Destructive
fire in South Australian Land Office and Survey Office |
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Cockatoo
Island first used as a convict establishment |
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FEBRUARY
Circular
Quay c. 1910 |
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Gang of 180 convicts
employed preparing for commencement of Circular Wharf,
Sydney |
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Tarban Creek Asylum
almost completed Already 100 patients confined..... |
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Bushrangers
active in the vicinity of Peel River |
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Percy
Simpson appointed Police Magistrate at Patrick Plains |
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Death of
Sir Patrick Lindesay in Scotland (former Acting Gov.
of NSW) |
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Edward John
Eyre arrived (2nd time) in S.A. overland from Sydney |
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Maitland
and Newcastle visited by Governor Gipps....... |
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Mechanics'
Institute and Subscription Library opened in Maitland |
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Commencement of Army recruitment in colony |
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Sailor's
Home established in Sydney |
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Steamer King William to take
exploratory voyage to Big River |
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Arrival of Reverend
William Branwhite Clarke and family |
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Edward John
Eyre departed on expedition to Spencer Gulf |
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Death of
John Batman at Port Phillip |
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Bushrangers
active in upper Hunter River region |
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Colonel
Snodgrass led mounted police in pursuit of armed
bushrangers at large in Williams River district |
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Philip Parker King, R.N appointed commissioner of A.A. Company |
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Angus
McMillan begins expedition opening new route from NSW
to Port Phillip District |
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Vessel
Lucretia destroyed by fire in Sydney Harbour |
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Death of
botanist Allan Cunningham in Sydney |
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Steamer
King William wrecked at Newcastle........ |
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Canadian
exiles transported to NSW and VDL on the vessel
Buffalo
Select here for 'The Exiles Return': Narrative of Samuel Snow
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Military
juries abolished. All trials to be before a jury of 12
citizens |
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Port Darwin
discovered by Captain John Lort Stokes in HMS
Beagle |
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Departure
from the colony of swindler John Thomas Wilson in the
brig Nereus |
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Death of
surveyor William Light in S.A |
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Departure
of vessel Rover's Bride with Captain Biddulph in
pursuit of swindler J.T. Wilson |
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Arrival in
Melbourne of Superintendent of Port Phillip district
C.J. Latrobe |
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Death of
pioneer pastoralist Thomas Henty in VDL |
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Death of English
Missionary John Williams at the island of Erromango,
New Hebrides at the hands of the natives (cannibals). John
Williams had been a close acquaintance of Rev. Threlkeld of Lake Macquarie.
Read Rev. Threlkeld's Journal
here |
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NOVEMBER
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Corroboree in Sydney. Narrative of
the United States Exploring Expedition During the
Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 by Charles Wilkes
Arrival of
the United States naval scientific expedition in Sydney
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Wreck of
brig Pelorus at Port Essington N.T. 12 drowned |
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Convict
ship Eden landed convicts in NSW |
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Convicts per
Barossa landed at the dockyard and marched to Hyde Park Barracks. Two or
three sick conveyed in handbarrows. |
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DECEMBER
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Departure from Sydney
of the United States Expedition en route for the
Antarctic
Wilkes Expedition at
the Antarctic 1840 |
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DECEMBER
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Arrival of the Beagle in Sydney and a
visit to Newcastle
Discoveries in Australia With an Account of the Coasts
and Rivers Explored and Surveyed By John Lort Stokes
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Count
Strzelecki begins expedition to Australian Alps |
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