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1793
January
1 Samuel Marsden is appointed assistant to the chaplain of New South Wales. He arrives 10 March 1794 and moves to Parramatta to become chaplain there

February
7
Land grants are made to free settlers at Liberty Plains (Strathfield and Homebush)

12 John Macarthur receives 100 acres at Parramatta (Elizabeth Farm). Four days later he is appointed Inspector of Public Works

18 A school is opened in an unfinished church building in Sydney

March
12
The Descubierta and Atrevida, under the command of Alexandro Malaspina arrive at Port Jackson. Under the patronage of the Spanish government, the voyage has already crossed the South Atlantic and Pacific, stopping at various ports in South America and the West Coast of North America, the Philippines and New Zealand

20 The storeship Daedalus arrives at Port Jackson with two young Maori chiefs of New Zealand to assist in the dressing of flax on Norfolk Island

June
20
The colony’s administrator Grose is empowered to assign convicts as servants to civil and military officers. He is instructed to prevent secret and clandestine sale of spirits in the colony

July
20
Phillip, in England, resigns from the governorship of New South Wales

September
15
Lieutenant William Paterson tries to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful

25 Sydney’s first church opens

November
8 Phillip Gidley King returns the two Maori chiefs to New Zealand in the Britannia after finding the Maori men did not hold knowledge of flax dressing as it was 'women's work'