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January |
The Scone Mail robbed by
bushrangers George Jones and
Joseph Bowers |
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January |
Detachment of the 80th Regiment
(Staffordshire Volunteers) arrived in Newcastle on the
Rose steamer.
80th Regiment (Australia's Redcoat Settlers)
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Caroline Chisholm
courtesy of the
State Library of Queensland
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Caroline Chisholm began settlement program for female
immigrants in the Hunter at Maitland |
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January |
New
Wharf (ballast wharf) built at Newcastle under the superintendence of
Lieutenant Fraser,
who
was employed as Assistant Engineer and Superintendent of the Iron Gang
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Holey Dollar and dump, first used in
1813, no longer legal
tender |
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January |
Copper deposit discovered by
Charles Bagot at Kapunda. S.A.
Read more about
Kapunda at Flinders Ranges Research
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Major financial crises. Over six hundred
insolvencies recorded in 1842 due to the depressed state of the colony |
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January 26
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To commemorate the anniversary of the colony the
Government ordered a pension of 1s per diem to be paid to the
3
survivors who came by
the first fleet in 1788
List of Convicts of
the First Fleet
HERE
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January 26
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John Clarke accidentally shot dead by his brother William at Lowe Farm near
Newcastle when the farm was attacked by three armed bushrangers
More about the robbery |
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January |
Calls for the lifeboat at Newcastle to be moved to Nobby's to enable it to be
dispatched quickly
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January
29 |
Alexander Flood appointed Agent and Correspondent for The
Hunter River Gazette for the town of Newcastle and its neighbourhood
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February |
Newcastle
female factory - women available for assignment |
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February |
Calls for Newcastle to be made a
free warehousing port |
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February 2 |
New insolvency laws come into operation |
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February |
Proclamation issued by Governor Gipps
announcing that the district of Moreton no long
considered a penal settlement |
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February 14 |
Arrival of
vessel
Sir Edward Paget with 248 emigrants. Captain Tait. Passenger -
Dr. Leichhart |
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March 19 |
Governor Sir George Gipps departed on the
Shamrock for Moreton Bay |
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March |
Drought breaking rain
at the Liverpool Plains |
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March |
A quantity of beautiful stone, procured from
quarries in the neighbourhood of Maitland and designed for paving the
Military Barracks
at Newcastle, forwarded by water to that town. Sent down
the river in boats of about ten tons burthen, and drawing three feet of water.
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March |
Convicts from the Stockade working under
Lieutenant
Simon Fraser
to improve the
streets of Newcastle. Calls for the one wretched street leading to Christ Church
to be macadamized.
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March |
Detachment of the 80th Regiment at Newcastle
relieved by detachment of 99th Regiment |
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April
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Ship Lady Raffles
caught fire and sank Sydney Harbour |
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April 10 |
Arrival of
Sir
Charles Napier with 334 immigrants. The Master Huxtable died on the
voyage out |
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April |
Petitions circulating
advocating a return of transportation |
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April 9 |
Thomas Homer
executed in Newcastle after being convicted of murder |
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May |
The Recovery schooner wrecked near Newcastle |
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May 12 |
With the assistance of soldier George Wilson of the 80th regiment, four men from Nobby's escape
in a boat and take to the bush. John
Roach and John Atkins belonged to the iron gang, John Thomson was in service to
the A.A. Company and John Raddish belonged to the Nobby's boat crew.
Find out more about these
bushrangers here
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May 15 |
Frederick Platt
and Henry Wray robbed by bushrangers at Raymond Terrace
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May 17 |
Earthquake felt by
inhabitants on the North Shore, Sydney Harbour
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May
24 |
Schooner Eliza
capsized by a squall in Sydney Harbour. 7 people drowned |
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June |
28th regiment
to proceed in India as soon as transport ships are provided |
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June |
John Quigley
sentenced
at Maitland Quarter Sessions to work in irons for 2 years for theft of a
waistcoat. |
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June |
Two whales sighted in
Darling Harbour and Parramatta River |
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June 19 |
Vessels John Bewer,
Elso, Arab, Bencoolen, and Hopkinson depart Port Jackson with Officers and
rank and file of the 28th Regiment bound for Bombay |
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June 20 |
Government vessel Governor Phillip
seized
by prisoners at Norfolk Island. Read about one of the inmates at Norfolk
Island at that time -
bushranger William Atkinson |
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July 14 |
First land sale at
Brisbane |
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July |
Sydney incorporated as
a city |
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July 29 |
John Bede Polding
appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney |
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July 30 |
A System of representative
government was established when the
Constitution Act was passed after Parliament in
England bowed to pressure from the colony of New South
Wales for self government. The new Legislative council
comprised thirty six members - twenty four were
elected under a limited franchise and the balance were
appointed by the Governor.
View 1842 Constitution Act at
'Documenting Democracy'
site
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August |
Town of Melbourne
incorporated |
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October |
Arrival in Sydney of H.M.S. Fly.
under command of Captain Blackwood. Naturalist Joseph Beete Jukes passenger
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October 6 |
Arrival of ship
Aden. A. A. Company colliers on board |
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October 20 |
Sydney Gazette
and New South Wales Advertiser issued for the last time. |
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October
28 |
Earthquake felt in Newcastle, Patrick Plains, Windsor. |
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November 1 |
First popular election in
Sydney, N.S.W.. |
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November
8 |
Execution of
those Prisoners from Norfolk Island who had been found guilty of piracy and murder |
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November 14 |
First bank opened
in Moreton Bay |
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Tweed factory established at Stockton by
Robert Fisher and Alexander Donaldson
(destroyed by fire in 1851) |
