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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
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