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Benjamin Duterrau (17671851)
Portrait of Governor Arthur c.1832 oil on wood panel;
24.6 x 20.3 cm R15 |
1824
February
11 Samuel
Marsden consecrates St James Church, Sydney
March 5 Francis Forbes arrives in Sydney
to take up his position as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court
15 The Bank of Van Diemen's Land opens for
business in Hobart
May 10
The Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land is opened
July 24
Governor Brisbane initiates a system for the sale of Crown land
August
5
Convict Alexander Pearce is hanged in Hobart. He had escaped from Macquarie
Harbour twice and survived his trek from the West Coast by eating his
companions
14 Brisbane proclaims martial law in the Bathurst
district following attacks by Aborigines. It is revoked on 11
December
24 Captain J.J.G. Bremer in HMS Tamar leaves
Sydney to establish a settlement in northern Australia
25 The Legislative Council of New South Wales meets
for the first time Musquito and Black Jack are captured near Little Swanport
River
September 1 Brisbane sends John Oxley with a
party of convicts and soldiers under Lieutenant Henry Miller to found a penal
settlement at Moreton Bay
28 Oxley recommends an alternative settlement site
on the Brisbane River
October 2 New South Wales is raised to an
archdeaconry in the Anglican diocese of Calcutta Hamilton Hume and William
Hovell leave to find an overland route South to Port Phillip, reaching Corio
Bay on 16 December
14 W.C. Wentworth and Robert Wardell, both
barristers, begin publication of the Australian, the first independent
newspaper in Australia
15 Freedom of the press is recognised. Censorship of
the Sydney Gazette ends
November 1 The Australian Agricultural
Company is incorporated by act of parliament
Other Dysentery is the most common disease in
New South Wales
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