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Officials stationed in Newcastle in 1839
(Blue Books - Returns of the Colony) |
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Removal of 284 male and female prisoners from Moreton
Bay to Sydney contemplated for the beginning of 1839;
and prediction that the Moreton Bay penal settlement
would close.
State of Religion and Education in New
South Wales By William Westbrooke Burton
More about the military stationed at Moreton Bay at
Australia's Red Coat Settlers
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Bushrangers
The Jewboy Gang form in Hunter Valley |
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January
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New
Commandant of Norfolk Island Major Bunbury of 80th
Regiment
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January |
Convicts
begin preparing Garden Island for construction of a
fort
Garden
Island History
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January 5 |
Arrival of the convict ship
Margaret
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the
Margaret
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January 14 |
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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January 15 |
Wreck of
the barque Children east of Portland Bay, Vic.
16 drowned |
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January 16 |
Sir Francis
Forbes returned to the colony on vessel Alfred.
Also on board 280 emigrants |
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January 23
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Death of
Frederick Dixon
at Maitland. Former superintendent of Government works
at Newcastle |
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January 23 |
Rev. Dr. Lang
returned to England and notorious swindler
Henry Turner
Harrington attempted to escape his creditors on
vessel Roslyn Castle. |
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January
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Arrival of
ship Hashemy. Passenger on board former
Australian Agricultural
Company agent Robert Dawson
Robert Dawson's Travels north of Port Stephens in 1826
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January 31
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Arrival of the convict ship
Theresa. Master Walt Young. Surgeon Ed. Hilditch.
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Theresa
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February |
Squatters
to pay variable tax as well as license fee. Revenue
from tax for border police |
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February |
Destructive
fire in South Australian Land Office and Survey Office |
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February |
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
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Gang of 180 convicts
employed preparing for commencement of Circular Wharf,
Sydney |
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February |
Bushrangers
active in the vicinity of Peel River
Richard Young was indicted for shooting at Joseph
Fleming, with intent to murder him at the Big River,
on the 26th May, and William Allen, John Rose alias
Henry Ellis, Thomas Spencer and Mary Ann, were
indicted for being present aiding, assisting and
abetting.
Read their trial at Superior Courts of New South Wales
site |
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March 1 |
Percy Simpson appointed Police Magistrate at Patrick Plains |
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March 9
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Arrival of convict ship
Planter
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Planter in 1839 |
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March 14 |
Death of
Sir Patrick Lindesay in Scotland (former Acting Gov.
of NSW) |
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March |
Edward John
Eyre arrived (2nd time) in S.A. overland from Sydney |
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March 22
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Arrival of convict ship
John Barry
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
John
Barry
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March 31 |
Maitland
and Newcastle visited by Governor Gipps........
His Excellency the Governor arrived in the Tamar at Maitland on Sunday last. On
arriving at Newcastle His Excellency went on shore
and was received on the beach in a very gratifying manner; he walked through the
town attended by Major Crummer, the Police Magistrate, and viewed the church and
coal mines, and after about an hour's absence returned to the steamer. - Sydney
Gazette 6 April 1839
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April |
Mechanics'
Institute and Subscription Library opened in Maitland |
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April |
Commencement of Army recruitment in colony |
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April |
Sailor's
Home established in Sydney |
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May
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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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May |
Edward John
Eyre departed on an expedition to Spencer Gulf |
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May 6 |
Death of
John Batman at Port Phillip |
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May |
Bushrangers
Telfer, Davis & Taylor
active in upper Hunter River region |
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May |
Colonel Snodgrass
led mounted police in pursuit of armed bushrangers at
large in Williams River district.
Bushrangers
in the Williams River district in 1839 |
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May |
Philip Parker King, R.N appointed commissioner
of the
Australian Agricultural Company |
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May |
Angus
McMillan begins expedition opening new route from NSW
to Port Phillip District |
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June 17 |
Arrival of the convict ship
Waverley
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Waverley |
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June 23
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Arrival of the convict ship
Whitby
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Whitby |
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June 23 |
Vessel
Lucretia destroyed by fire in Sydney Harbour |
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June 27 |
Death of
botanist Allan Cunningham in Sydney
More about
Allan
Cunningham
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July 2 |
Steamer King William wrecked at Newcastle........Read
More about the wreck
Back
to Frank The Poet |
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September |
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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September |
Military
juries abolished. All trials to be before a jury of 12
citizens |
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September 1
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Arrival of the convict ship
Parkfield
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the
Parkfield
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September 5 |
Port Darwin
discovered by Captain John Lort Stokes in HMS
Beagle
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September 27
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Arrival of the convict ship
Blenheim
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Blenheim |
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October 11 |
Departure
from the colony of swindler John Thomas Wilson in the
brig Nereus |
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October 6 |
Death of
surveyor William Light in South Australia |
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October |
Departure
of vessel Rover's Bride with
Captain Edward Biddulph in
pursuit of swindler John Thomas Wilson |
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October |
Arrival in
Melbourne of Superintendent of Port Phillip district
C.J. Latrobe |
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October 25 |
Death of
pioneer pastoralist Thomas Henty in VDL |
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November
Find out more about John Williams at Wikipedia
John Williams
Missionary ship Medallion |
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.
Also
murdered was James Harris from Ireland. He died
intestate (SMH 12
April 1843) |
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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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November |
Wreck of
brig Pelorus at Port Essington N.T. 12 drowned |
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November 10 |
Arrival of the convict ship
Mary Ann
Select
HERE to find out more about the
voyage of the Mary Ann |
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November
29 |
Execution of
bushrangers Alexander
Telfer, Archibald Taylor and James Davis |
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December 8 |
Arrival of the convict ship Barossa.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the
Barossa
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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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December 26 |
Arrival of the Convict ship
Minerva
Select
HERE to find out more about the
voyage of the
Minerva |
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December |
Count
Strzelecki begins expedition to the Australian Alps
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