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Alphonse Pellion
[Nouvelle-Hollande, Baie des Chiens Marins, camp de lUranie, sur la Presquîle Péron] 1818
watercolour; 19.2 x 27.3 cm
T219 NK5346/A
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1818
January
8 Macquarie
accuses Samuel Marsden of conspiracy
18 The Great Western Road between Parramatta and Emu Ford (Plains) Island is opened
26 The first Australia Day celebrations are held
29 The first regular mail service between Hobart and Launceston begins, following the construction of a road joining the two towns
April
19 King examines Port Essington (and the Alligator River (8 May) names Bathurst Island and Melville Island (21 May), Barrow (June 19) and returns to Port Jackson
May
28 Oxley and Evans explore the Macquarie River
June
30 Female orphans moved to a new orphanage at Parramatta
July
8 Evans explores the Castlereagh River, and in August Oxley sights the Warrumbungle Ranges, Liverpool Plains and the Peel River
September
12 Louis de Freycinet, in the French naval corvette L'Uranie, surveys Shark Bay, West Australia (26 September) and at Dirk Hartog Island finding the de Vlamingh plate. He takes it back to Paris
15 Oxley examines the Hastings River and names Port Macquarie (8 October)
October
21 Bushranger Michel Howe is killed
December
24 Thomas Raine establishes a whaling station at Twofold Bay—the first in New South Wales
A paper mill is established at present-day Waterloo, Sydney, by Messrs Warren and Duncan
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