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Australian bush scene

John William Lewin (1770—1819)
[Scene in Australian Bush] c.1810
sepia wash drawing; 22.5 x 17.5 cm
T2223 NK6066

1810
January
1
Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Macquarie takes over as Governor of New South Wales

4 Macquarie dismisses all those appointed to official positions since Governor Bligh's removal. He restores those previously in office and nullifies all trials, land grants, and gifts made to members of the NSW Corps

8 The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen’s Land, begins publication

12 Macquarie appoints emancipist Andrew Thompson a Justice of the Peace and Chief Magistrate at the Hawkesbury. He is the first emancipist magistrate appointed

February
24 Macquarie issues a proclamation condemning cohabitation and immorality

March
22 Macquarie opens a Charity School in Parramatta

May
12 Bligh sails for England

June
13 Matthew Flinders is released from internment on Mauritius

August
William Pascoe Crook, a missionary, organises Australia's first Congregational Church in Sydney

October
6 Macquarie divides Sydney into five police districts, with seven constables being allotted to each. Amongst others, he names four major streets as well as Hyde Park and Macquarie Place

November
6 Macquarie, his wife, and a party set out from Sydney on a two-month visit to all inhabited inland districts

Alexander Riley and Garnham Blouxcell sign a contract giving them a monopoly on the import of rum in exchange for their building a hospital (the ‘Rum Hospital’)

7 Macquarie fixes the site of Liverpool and orders James Meehan to begin a survey

December
6 Macquarie names five township sites: Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh, Pitt Town, and Wilberforce