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1798
January
26 The first sightings of a lyrebird and a koala are made by John Price, Hunter's servant

February
12 Flinders explores the Furneaux Islands

March
9 John Wilson leads a party to present-day Goulburn. According to Collins he was "a wild, idle young man who preferred living among the natives to earning the wages of honest industry"

May
14 The Nautilus arrives at Port Jackson carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society

June
15 The Norfolk, a sloop built on Norfolk Island, arrives at Port Jackson

October
1 Sydney’s first church is destroyed by fire, apparently deliberately

7 Bass and Flinders leave to explore Van Diemen’s land