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1820
January
27
The Sydney Burial Ground (Sandhills Cemetery) is consecrated on the site of present day Central Station

February
29
Macquarie again asks permission to resign as Governor. His request is granted (15 July)

April
1 William Minchin (holder of a land grant, Minchinbury, at Rooty Hill) is appointed Superintendent of Police

11 The Russian ship Vostok, commanded by F.F. Bellingshausen, arrives at Port Jackson on a voyage of scientific discovery to the Antarctic, followed by the Mirnyi on 19 April

May
3 John Joseph Therry and Philip Conolly, the first Catholic priests officially appointed to Australia, arrive at Port Jackson

July
29 A supplementary issue of the Sydney Gazette is printed on paper made at a mill established at Waterloo in 1818

August
15 Macquarie issues an order enforcing left-hand driving

19 Joseph Wild examines Lake George and sights mountains he names the Snowy Mountains

November
25 Macquarie issues a government order permitting limited grazing outside the Cumberland Plains. It also allows grazing on the Goulburn and Breadalbane

Plains (9 December). This marks the beginning of the movement of graziers inland

December
1 Campbelltown is marked out and named by Macquarie

Other
John Macarthur establishes a vineyard at Camden with cuttings brought from France in 1817