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Mount York

Augustus Earle (1793—1838)
View from the Summit of Mount York, Looking Towards Bathurst Plains, Convicts Breaking Stones, N.S. Wales c.1826
watercolour; 22.5 x 33 cm
T61 NK12/23

1815
January
4
The Frances and Eliza, en route to Australia with 123 convicts, is captured by US privateer Warrior and pillaged. The ships are later allowed to continue their voyage

14 The road over the Blue Mountains is completed to the Macquarie River

18 A residential school for Aboriginal children is opened at Parramatta

April
25 Lieutenant-Governor Davey proclaims martial law throughout Van Diemen's Land to check bushranging. Macquarie revokes the proclamation in October

May
7 Macquarie selects the site of a new settlement naming it Bathurst after the Home Secretary

August
10 The first Wesleyan minister in Australia, Reverend Samuel Leigh, arrives in Sydney to organise the Methodist Church in Australia

October
27 Dr William Bland receives a pardon and establishes a private medical practice in Sydney

December
The NSW Sunday School Institution is opened on a non-denominational basis