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Nouvelle-Hollande

Alphonse Pellion
[Nouvelle-Hollande, Baie des Chiens Marins, camp de l’Uranie, sur la Presqu’île Péron] 1818
watercolour; 19.2 x 27.3 cm
T219 NK5346/A

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