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1809
January
1
William Paterson arrives at Port Jackson and assumes the position of Governor

March
17 Bligh sails for Hobart despite having agreed to sail to England. He moves into a government cottage. Macarthur and Major George Johnston sail to England to put forward their version of the Rum Rebellion

April
25 Isaac Nichols, assistant to the Naval Officer, is appointed Sydney's first postmaster

May
8
Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Macquarie is officially appointed Governor of New South Wales

July
30 The Hawkesbury floods which continue until August, reach a level higher than the 1806 Great Flood
The Derwent River floods (Van Diemen's Land)

Other
In one week, three vessels arrive in Port Jackson with 45,000 seal skins caught in the region of Foveaux Strait, New Zealand