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Macquarie Harbour

Thomas Lemprière (1796—1852)
SW View of Macquarie Harbour c.1827 (detail)
pen, ink and watercolour; 21.9 x 72.3 cm
R137

1822
January
1
The Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society is formed in Hobart

2 A Penal settlement is established at Macquarie Harbour, Van Diemen's Land, for prisoners convicted of a second offence

6 The first service is held in the unfinished St James' Church, Sydney

February
15 Macquarie sails for England

May
6
Commissioner Bigge's first report on the convict system, On the State of the Colony of NSW is submitted to Lord Bathurst

July
5 The Agricultural Society of NSW (later the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW) is founded at a public meeting in Sydney

August
8 The first sale of Australian-grown tobacco leaf is held in Sydney

31 The first part of Bigge's second report on the judicial system is submitted. A second part is submitted 2 October

November
15 Greenway is dismissed as Civil Architect following a series of disagreements with his superiors

December
24 Reverend Archibald Macarthur, the first Presbyterian minister in Australia, arrives in Hobart