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1821
February
3 Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Brisbane is commissioned
as Governor to succeed Macquarie
14 Commissioner Bigge returns to Britain
17 A new, self-contained Female Factory at Parramatta opens for 200 convicts
March
4 A stage coach begins operating between Sydney and Richmond
17 Captain Francis Allman and a party of soldiers and convicts sail from Sydney in the Prince Regent and Lady Nelson to found a penal settlement at Port Macquarie, New South Wales
April
Charles Throsby explores the Murrumbidgee River
May
1 Australia's first periodical, the Australian Magazine, begins publication
26 Phillip Parker King leaves on his final survey voyage to the west coast of Australia
30 Macquarie, on a visit to Van Diemen's Land, selects the site of Perth, then Campbell Town (31 May), Ross (2 June), Oatlands (3 June) and Brighton (4 June)
August
Twenty-six prisoners are condemned to death in Sydney, and nineteen are executed
October
29 Macquarie lays the foundation stone of St Mary's Chapel (Cathedral) in Sydney, the first Catholic church built in Australia
November
7 Sir Thomas Brisbane arrives in Sydney to take over from Macquarie as Governor
December
1 Brisbane is sworn in as Governor
Lieutenant Robert Johnston examines the Clyde River, New South Wales
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