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1807
February
8
Lieutenant Thomas Laycock explores Van Diemen's Land finding the Cyde River

10 Samuel Marsden sails to England to recruit clergy for the colony. He also takes the first consignment of Australian wool large enough to weave into a length of cloth

14 Governor Bligh prohibits the use of spirits to barter for food and clothing

June
16
Russian corvette Neva (Captain Leontii Hagemeister) on a voyage of exploration (to 1 July), is the first Russian vessel to call at Port Jackson

July
25 Bligh suspends D'Arcy Wentworth for alleged misconduct in administering Parramatta Hospital

August
2 William Blue advertises in the Sydney Gazette as a licensed ferryman on Sydney Harbour

October
Bligh orders the confiscation of boilers imported with two stills earlier in the year by John Macarthur and Captain Edward Abbott. The government had confiscated the stills upon arrival

December
Macarthur defies an arrest warrant following the Parramatta affair