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A Bivouack

Augustus Earle (1793—1838)
A Bivouack [i.e. bivouac], Day Break on the Ilawarra [i.e. Illawarra] Mountains 1827
watercolour; 25.7 x 17.5 cm
T77 NK12/39

1816
January
18 News of the Battle of Waterloo the previous year is received

March
30 Governor Macquarie appoints Francis Greenway as the government's Civil Architect

April
Macquarie sends out three punitive expeditions against Aborigines along the Nepean, Grose and Hawkesbury Rivers. A number are captured following fourteen aboriginal deaths

June
1 Following a trial issue produced on 11 May, Andrew Bent begins regular publication of the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter

13 A road to Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney is completed. This date is traditionally observed as the foundation of the Sydney Botanic Gardens

September
20 The first free migrants arrive in Hobart in the Adarnante

November
30 The colony begins to export horses for the Indian army

December
2
The first land grants are issued in the Illawarra district

Other
Botanist Allan Cunningham arrives in the colony