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Govenor Arthur

Benjamin Duterrau (1767—1851)
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