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Shipwrights begin to build clipper ships making the voyage from England
faster
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Invention of the 'Stripper' a labour saving
harvesting machine that revolutionized the wheat industry.
Find out more about the 'Ridley Reaping Machine' at the Library of South
Australia
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Wool auctions introduced in
Sydney by Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
Read about Thomas Mort at the National
Portrait Gallery
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Vines planted at
Henry Lindeman's Cawarra in the Hunter Valley |
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January....... |
Boiling down sheep for tallow begins as
monetary confusion deepens |
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January....... |
Rainfall from Moreton Bay to Maitland - luxuriant crops expected |
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January...... |
Benevolent asylum in
East Maitland situated in former immigrant's home until the end of 1843 when
patients were moved to Hannan
House |
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January 7....... |
Maitland
Mercury newspaper first published ( New South Wales) |
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January 11....... |
Auction of
Bowthorne Estate on the Paterson River |
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January13........ |
Bushranger Long Tom Forrester captured by Chief constable Shields of Scone
at Belltrees.
Select here to read more about
Long Tom Forrester |
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February........ |
Canadian rebels
to receive
pardons -
On the night of the 7th
February Mr. Roebuck moved in the House of Commons, an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, that pardon may be extended to all persons
transported to our penal colonies from Upper and Lower Canada for political
offences committed during the late unhappy disturbances in those provinces.
He grounded the motives on the facts principally that the disturbances
commenced from an idea that the French population was to be reduced to an
inferior standing, and deprived of their privileges......The
Australian 21 July 1843
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February....... |
Political Meetings
held at Newcastle
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A public meeting of the electors of Newcastle having been called by Major
Wentworth’s friends, to be held on Wednesday last for the purpose of
strengthening the cause of the Major in that town, about thirty or
forty gentlemen left Maitland at an early hour on Wednesday morning for the
purpose of attending the meeting. A number of Mr. Scott’s friends also left
Maitland for the same purpose.
At about one o’clock the gentlemen composing the committee assembled in front of
Mr. McGreavy’s house, and from one to two hundred of the inhabitants of
Newcastle, chiefly of the labouring classes, also assembled. Flags were flying
from the windows of several inns in the town; nearly the whole of Mr. Scott’s
adherents wore
rosettes at their breasts of green,
purple
and blue ribbons, and
were attended by a band.
- Maitland Mercury
Saturday 11 February 1843
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February 14........ |
Foundation stone of Australian Library laid
by Alexander McLeay in Bent Street Sydney |
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February........ |
Heavy rain Hunter River district |
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February 27..........
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Bushranger
John
Quigley
captured by Henry Smith near Harper's Hill, Maitland district
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March 1.........
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Striking comet observed in
Europe and
Australia.
Select here to read more about the Great March Comet
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March 9........ |
Rev. Dr. John Bede Polding returned to Sydney bringing with him other
clergymen |
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March......... |
Robert Keddie advertising regular supply of coal from his pit, Coal
Hill, East Maitland |
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March........ |
Hunter River in Flood |
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March......... |
Rinoplasty surgery performed by
Dr. Liddell at Bolwarra |
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March........ |
Hundreds of dead and dying fish seen floating down Wallis Creek |
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April....... |
Thomas R. Johnson,
editor of the Satirist newspaper convicted of a series of obscene libels
sentenced to 2 years in Newcastle
Gaol. Printer W. Brown sentenced to 1 yr
in Berrima gaol. |
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April....... |
Whooping cough
prevalent in the Hunter |
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April 22....... |
An elephant's
tusk weighing 30lbs and about fifty inches in length and 14 inches in
circumference dug out of the sand near Stockton. Supposed by some of the old
residents of Newcastle to be the relic of the wreck of a large ship from
India, which was lost in the year 1827. To be sold at Alexander Flood's
auction rooms
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May....... |
The City Theatre, in Market Street Sydney, opened by Messrs. Simmons and Belmore. |
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May....... |
Limestone bed discovered
at Black Creek |
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June....... |
Emigration on bounty to
NSW to the extent of 5000 persons to be resumed |
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June 7........
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'Yesterday being the day appointed for the
whole paraphernalia connected with the Old Gaol, prisoners, officers, etc.,
to remove to the New prison at Darlinghurst, the interior of the old
building presented busy scene the whole day. At an early hour 119 of
the prisoners were marched out of the Gaol, the redoubtable Curran heavily
ironed taking precedence of his brother culprits. They were strongly guarded
all the way to their new abode by a detachment of 50 policemen, 4
inspectors, and chief constable Mitchell under command of Capt. Innes. The
second batch of prisoners consisted of 50 females who were escorted to the
New Gaol by a smaller detachment of the police'. (SG)
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June 28....... |
Duncan McGillvrey killed in election riots at Paterson |
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July........
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The Hexham Hotel on the road to Newcastle
opened for business. Thomas Prentice proprietor. The Hexham Hotel was
previously run by William Sparke. The location of Spark's land can be seen
on this map. (Click to enlarge). More about the
Hexham Hotel
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July 27....... |
New
Legislative Council to meet for the first time. Speaker to be elected |
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August........ |
Alexander McLeay Esq., member for Gloucester,
Macquarie and Stanley elected Speaker at the first meeting of the
Legislative Council |
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September
15..... |
Government enacted
insolvency legislation. Imprisonment for debt abolished.
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September 15..... |
A Lien on Wool Act passed to fight depression |
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September...... |
Several paid police
magistrate positions terminated after the office abolished by Legislative
council. |
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November......
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New Church at St.
Albans, Lower Hawkesbury opened for divine service. Rev. Simpson
Hawkesbury on
the Net
History of St. Albans
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November...... |
Departure of Sir John Franklin
from Tasmania |
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November...... |
Thomas Tute and Thomas Blakeney, two private soldiers of the 99th
Regiment, indicted for an assault
on
John Rinker
a constable in the Newcastle police at Newcastle
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December 14...... |
Six prisoners assisted by three soldiers escape from Norfolk
Island in a whale boat |
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December 22......
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Death of King's
Commissioner John Thomas Bigge
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December 28....... |
Maiden Session
of the Legislative Council of New South Wales closed |