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John Fairfax and Charles Kemp
formed partnership to purchase the Sydney Herald (later the Sydney Morning
Herald)
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Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld began working the Ebenezer Coal mine
after the closure of the Aboriginal Mission at Toronto |
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Scarlatina prevalent in Colony
causing the death of a large number of children
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Silver/Lead mine Wheal Gawler established at
Glen Osmond
near Adelaide
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Female Immigrants Home established in Sydney
by Caroline Chisholm
The ABC of Colonization
- A series of Letters by Caroline Chisholm |
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Palmyra, 602 tons arrived. Passengers - Captain Russell, Ensign
Butler and Owen, 207 rank and file of 28th Regiment 51 rank and file of 51st
regiment.
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Death of
convict, marine explorer
Jorgen Jorgensen |
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Arrival of Richard Ryther Street Bowker in Port Phillip on immigrant
ship Georgiana. More about Richard Ryther Street Bowker
here
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Sir
Roger Therry appointed NSW Attorney- General |
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MARCH
2
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Search the 1841 Census Index at State Records of NSW
Census taken
throughout the Colony
Penny cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
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Bushrangers
Edward Davis Robert Chitty, James Everett, John Shea, John Marshall, Richard
Glanville - 'The Jew Boy Gang' executed in Sydney
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Michael Bradley executed for
murder at Newcastle |
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Arrival
of steamer Rose from London |
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Arrival in Hobart from the
Antarctic the Erebus and Terror |
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New Zealand proclaimed a colony independent of New
South Wales |
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Arrival
in Adelaide of Sir George Grey |
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The first photograph
taken in Sydney. |
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Sydney
first lit with gas |
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Prisoners removed from the old
gaol in George Street Sydney to Darlinghurst |
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Edward
John Eyre reached Albany on King George Sound, Western Australia. |
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First
Post Office opened in Melbourne |
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The Shamrock, the first of the iron steamers
built for the Hunter River Steam Co arrived from England. |
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Severe drought in New England
district |
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Death of first NSW Chief
Justice Sir Francis Forbes |
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Arrival of ship Hero of Malown, Capt. Jackson. A. A. Company colliers on
board |
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New Military Barracks at Newcastle almost completed |
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Mr. Cosgrove robbed by
bushrangers near Muswellbrook |
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Hunter River Gazette published in Maitland NSW
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Arrival of the Emerald Isle from Plymouth with 150 emigrants. Some A.A.
Company servants
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1000 acres - Ebenezer Estate near Lake Macquarie advertised for sale. |
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