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1829
January 1 Sturts party reaches the
Bogan River. He examines the Darling River near present day Bourke, and traces
the Castlereagh River
February 9 The Launceston Advertiser
is founded by J.P. Fawkner
March 1 W.C. Wentworth impeaches Darling
in a letter to the Colonial Office
25 George Augustus Robinson is appointed guardian of
the Aboriginal population at Bruny Island, Tasmania
31 Fort Dundas, Melville Island, is abandoned.
Settlers move to Raffles Bay
April
10
Edward Smith Hall is found guilty of seditious libel of Darling in the
Monitor of 22 November 1828. He is sentenced to 12 months'
gaol
14 E. Hayes, editor of The Australian, is
fined and gaoled for six months for libelling Darling
May 2 Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS
Challenger lands at the site of Fremantle and takes formal possession of
the western third of Australia, that is, all of the mainland not included in
New South Wales
31 Captain James Stirling in HMS Parmelia
arrives at Cockburn Sound to form a settlement on the Swan River
The ship Governor
Ready is wrecked in Torres Strait. The crew in ship's boats sail
2,400 km to Timor in 14
days
June 18
The colony of Western Australia is proclaimed, with Stirling as
Lieutenant-Governor. By 12 August the site of Perth is chosen, and land sales
in Perth and Fremantle begin on 5 September
August
15
Foreign coins are no longer accepted by the government in
Australia
21 The Legislative Council of New South Wales
meets for the first time in the present Parliament House
September 5 Land sales in Perth and Fremantle
begin on 5 September
13 Archdeacon William Grant Broughton, later Bishop
Broughton, the first Anglican bishop in Australia, arrives in Sydney
October 9 Emancipists become eligible for
jury service. Such juries consist of 12 men
14 Governor Darling proclaims the Nineteen Counties
of New South Wales, redefining the Limits of Location, beyond which settlement
is prohibited
New South Wales'
four-year drought breaks
November 3 Sturt leaves to determine the
course of the Murrumbidgee River
30 Compositors on The Australian newspaper
strike over a reduction in wages owing to the currency depreciation
December 15
Thomas Peel arrives at the Swan River with 300 settlers. They are, however,
too late to be eligible for the land grant for his colonisation
scheme
Other The Shipwrights' Society of Sydney is
formed. It is believed to be the first trade association in New South Wales
Fifty-two people are
hung in New South Wales during the year
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