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Walter Preston, engraver (b.1777)
after Richard Browne (17761824)
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
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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
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