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Officials stationed in Newcastle in 1839
(Blue Books - Returns of the Colony) |
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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
Description on Norfolk Island in
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of
Useful Knowledge By
Charles Knight |
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Convicts
begin preparing Garden Island for construction of a
fort
Garden
Island History
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Arrival of the convict ship
Margaret
166 female prisoners and 44 children
under the superintendence of George Todd Moxey,
surgeon. Passengers Rev. Frederick Wilkinson and Mrs.
Wilkinson. Steerage 57 free females including
children. |
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Breakout attempt at Carter's Barracks by 19 soldiers
confined there because of severe punishment such as
being worked on the ring. The punishment of the ring
was similar to the practice of breaking in horses. The
men were made to form four deep and march round the
ring twenty times, and afterwards ten times at double
quick pace. |
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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
Australian Agricultural
Company agent Robert Dawson
More about
Robert Dawson
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Arrival of convict ship
Theresa |
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Squatters
to pay variable tax as well as license 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
Convict Era punishment cells unearthed on Cockatoo
Island - ABC Local September 2009 |
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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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Bushrangers
active in the vicinity of Peel River |
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Percy Simpson appointed Police Magistrate at Patrick Plains |
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Arrival of convict ship
Planter |
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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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Arrival of convict ship
John Barry
Departed Sheerness 17th November
under Captain J. Robson and
bringing 320 convict boys. Cabin passengers
Lieut. Somerset, 51st regt., Ensign Grimes 50th regt.,
Mr. Colin Spaldin Engineer dept., Campbell Francis
R.N. surgeon superintendent. Steerage rank and file of
the 50th and 51st regt., 7 women and 7 children |
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Maitland
and Newcastle visited by Governor Gipps.......Read
More about the vist |
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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 the Big River |
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Arrival of Reverend
William Branwhite Clarke and family
Clarke predicted the colony's mineral wealth.
In 1841, chipping the quartziferous slates near
Hartley in the Blue Mountains, he discovered particles
of gold and later added evidence from Bathurst to the
Liverpool Range that the country would be found
'abundantly rich in gold' |
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Edward John
Eyre departed on an 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 the
Australian Agricultural Company |
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Angus
McMillan begins expedition opening new route from NSW
to Port Phillip District |
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Arrival of the convict ship
Waverley |
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Arrival of the convict ship
Whitby |
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Vessel
Lucretia destroyed by fire in Sydney Harbour |
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Death of
botanist Allan Cunningham in Sydney
More about
Allan
Cunningham
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Steamer King William wrecked at Newcastle........Read
More about the wreck
Back
to Frank The Poet |
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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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Arrival of the vessel
Parkfield
Departed Sheerness 15 May under Captain
Whiteside and bringing 240 male prisoners under
superintendence of Surgeon Alexander Neill |
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Port Darwin
discovered by Captain John Lort Stokes in HMS
Beagle |
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Arrival of the convict ship
Blenheim |
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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 South Australia |
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Departure
of vessel Rover's Bride with
Captain Edward Biddulph in
pursuit of swindler John Thomas 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.
Lancelot Threlkeld of Lake Macquarie.
Find out more about
Rev.
Threlkeld |
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NOVEMBER
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Arrival of
the United States naval scientific expedition in Sydney
Corroboree in Sydney. Narrative of
the United States Exploring Expedition During the
Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 by Charles Wilkes
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Wreck of
brig Pelorus at Port Essington N.T. 12 drowned |
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Arrival of the convict ship
Mary Ann |
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Arrival of the convict ship Barossa.
Convicts of the
Barossa
were 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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Arrival of the Convict ship Minerva |
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Count
Strzelecki begins expedition to the Australian Alps |
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