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Newcastle

Walter Preston, engraver (b.1777)
after Richard Browne (1776—1824)
Newcastle in New South Wales with a Distant View of Point Stephen, Taken from Prospect Hill
Sydney: A. West, 30 November 1812
engraving; 27.5 x 40.5 cm
U2021 NK349-F

1805
January
21
The Lady Barlow leaves Port Jackson with the first all-colonial cargo (sealskins, seal oil, and timber) to be shipped directly to the United Kingdon, in defiance of the East India Company’s monopoly

February
23 Surveyor-General G.W. Evans is discharged for fraud

April
27 Following the deaths of several settlers at the hands of some Aboriginal people, Governor King orders troops to be sent to the Hawkesbury

May
24
Captain William Bligh is commissioned in London as Governor of New South Wales

June
24 Lieutenant-Governor Collins notifies King of an extreme shortage of food in Hobart

July
5 Judge Advocate Atkins states the colonial law that as the Aboriginal people are believed to have neither religion nor morals they cannot give evidence in a case of law

November
28 Food and settlers from Norfolk Island arrive at the Derwent River, Van Diemen's Land

December
12 Four convicts escape from Newcastle and are recaptured near Castle Hill. They and their pursuers become the first white ‘explorers’ to travel from Newcastle to Sydney

18 The first land grants are made in Van Diemen's Land. They include 10 acres to Reverend Robert Knopwood