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Economic Depression
after withdrawal of funds from banks and decline in value of livestock |
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Prince of Wale Birthday celebration in 1869 at Sir
Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany
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Sir Joseph Banks Hotel at Botany commenced. By the time of
this engraving in 1869, gardens and a zoo had been established on the
grounds. |
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George
Street Sydney 1840 |
Hordern Bros department store
founded in Sydney |
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January
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Paul Strzelecki - tour of south western
Australia
The Progress Of Ethnology By John Russell Bartlett |
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January |
Port
Phillip Herald established |
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January 4 |
The house of
Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass at Raymond Terrace robbed by three
armed men |
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January 4 |
Death of
catholic priest James Dixon |
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January 7 |
Launch of the General Steam Navigation
Company steamer Victoria at Hunter's River
(built byKorff at Greenhills) |
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January 11 |
Departure of Angus
McMillan and party from the Tambo River to Gippsland |
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January 19
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Departure
per H.M.S. Herald for New Zealand of surveyor
Felton Matthew; His Excellency Captain Hobson, Lieut-Gen of
NZ; Dr. Johnson and Mr Hustler |
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January 25 |
Arrival of
the convict ship
Middlesex
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Middlesex |
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January 29
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Death of pioneer merchant Simeon Lord |
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February |
Hunter River in flood. Vessels unable to load
at Morpeth as roads were impassable for drays |
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February
9 |
Arrival of the
vessel
Nautilus (2)
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the
Nautilis |
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February 15 (?12) |
Paul Strzelecki and James Macarthur ascend
Mt. Kosciuszko
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February
25 |
Arrival of the
Buffalo store ship with prisoners convicted in the disturbances in
Canada. American prisoners disembarked in Van Diemen's Land and French
Canadian prisoners sent to Sydney. One died
on the passage. |
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February 26 |
Arrival of convict ship
Woodbridge
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the
Woodbridge |
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Alexander Maconochie arrived on the
Nautilus
in February 1840.
Alexander
Maconochie (1798 - 1860), naval officer, geographer, and penal reformer, was
born on 11 February 1787. He was appointed superintendent of the penal
settlement at Norfolk Island and took up his duties in March 1840.
Maconochie's notions of penal science rested on the beliefs that cruelty
debases both victim and the society inflicting it and that punishment for
crime should not be vindictive but designed to strengthen a prisoner's
desire and capacity to observe social constraints. He returned to England in
1844......Australian
Dictionary of Biography Online
'Thoughts on Convict Management and other Subjects connected with the
Australian Penal Colonies' written by Maconochie in 1838 |
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March |
Patrick
Leslie overlands first cattle to Darling Downs, Qld
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March 21 |
Murrurundi
mail robbed by bushrangers |
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March |
Arrival of Maltese mules and
muleteers imported by
Australian Agricultural Company |
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April |
William Lawson robbed by two armed men near
Iron Cove bridge on the Parramatta Road |
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April 4 |
Survey for
railroad between Newcastle and Maitland completed
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The
Surveyor has completed his survey of the intended rail road from Newcastle to
Maitland, which is to be proceeded upon without delay. The line will commence
near to the Queen's Wharf, and run by the Beach westward, nearly in the same
direction as the present high road - the Reef between the Breakwater and Wharf
is to be filled up and made part of the road. - Commercial Journal and
Advertiser 4 April 1840
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April 8 |
Call for an
end to 'the hateful lash' .......Read
more |
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April 27 |
Arrival of
convict ship
Mangles
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Mangles |
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May
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Several men
apprehended at Liverpool Plains by
Major Nunn.
Suspected of knowing the whereabouts of notorious bushranger
Opossum Jack
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May 5 |
Public meeting in Melbourne to petition for separation from
NSW |
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May 11 |
Dan O'Connell cutter lost off Port Stephens.......Select HERE to read more about the
Dan O'Connel |
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May 22 |
Order of Council ends transportation of
convicts from England to NSW |
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June |
Court House at Newcastle
completed.
Mortimer Lewis
Colonial Architect and builders
Richardson &
Hudson |
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June |
Brig
Maria
wrecked off South Australian Coast 27 passengers and crew killed by Aborigines. |
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June |
Ship China
arrived with passenger
David Stolworthy ( later medical practitioner at
Patrick Plains) |
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June 8 |
Edward John Eyre begins overland journey from
Adelaide to King George Sound W.A |
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June 23 |
Foundation stone
laid for The Garrison Church. Holy Trinity by Rev. W.G. Broughton. Corner of
Argyle & Lower Fort Streets Miller's Point. Architects - Henry Ginn and Edmund Blacket.
Builder Edward Flood |
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July 1 |
First Edition of the daily Monitor |
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July 13 |
Arrival of the female
convict ship
Surry.
Master George Sinclair. Surgeon Edward Leahy
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the
Surry
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July 14 |
Arrival of convict ship
Maitland
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Maitland |
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July 24 |
Arrival of female
convict ship
Isabella II
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find out more about the voyage of the Isabella |
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August 14 |
Discovery of Lake Eyre by E.J. Eyre |
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August 17 |
Arrival of convict transport
King William
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the
King William |
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August 18 |
Arrival of Hunter Valley land owner
Henry Lindeman on the Theresa
Arrival of the convict
ship Margaret
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more about the voyage of the Margaret
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September |
Bushranger 'Barraby Jack' active in the Cassilis district
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September |
Sydney Morning
Herald commenced daily publication |
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September 24 |
Arrival of
Australian Agricultural
Company colliers on board ship
Richard Webb |
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September 28 |
Mass meeting of workers in Sydney protesting
against amendment to the Masters & Servants Act |
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October |
Land purchased for the establishment of Newcastle Grammar School
We have much pleasure
in stating, that there is now a reasonable prospect of a Grammar School being
established in Newcastle – the land has been purchased, and the site is in every
respect desirable; rumour states, that the Lord Bishop of Australia will
appropriate
£3,000 of the fund placed at
his disposal for such purposes towards the erection of the School House. -
Sydney Gazette 17 October 1840
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October |
Elphinstone arrived with 248
emigrants principally agriculturalists. Ten deaths on the passage out |
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October
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Sir George Gipps
informs Council that information had been received on 1st August
ending transportation to the Colony |
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October |
Famous Court case -
Mudie v. Kinchela |
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October 5 |
Formation of the Synod of Australia |
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November 6 |
Arrival of the convict
ship
Pekoe
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the
Pekoe |
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November 17 |
Death of Church of England clergyman Henry
Fulton |
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November 18 |
Arrival of the
convict ship
Eden - last convict
ship to off load convicts in Sydney - 267 male prisoners
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the
Eden |
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November
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Discovery ships Erebus and Terror
under Captain Ross, R.N. and Captain Crozier to depart at
the end of the month
Read about the Erebus and Terror
at Cool Antarctica |
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November 21 |
Geelong Advertiser established by J.P.
Fawkner |
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December |
Steamer Clonmell
begins passages to Port Phillip. |
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December 25 |
Bushrangers
Thomas Farrow and William Rowley
captured by
Percy Simpson and the mounted police |
