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Severe
drought throughout colony...
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Code of harbour
regulations and shipping laws brought into force at Newcastle
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January...... |
Market and fair
established at Parramatta |
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January 3.....
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Death of Bennelong at Kissing Point
Description of a Battle following the death of Bennelong
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Glass bottle
blowing shop opened in Sydney by Simeon Lord |
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February 4....... |
Arrival of Governor Davey in Tasmania |
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February 16...... |
Arrival of the convict ship
Archduke Charles
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HERE to
find out more about the voyage of the Archduke Charles in 1813
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March...... |
King's Wharf, Sydney completed.
First public wharf in Colony
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March...... |
George Johnston returned to
Australia
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March 13...... |
Colonial schooner
Endeavour wrecked at Shoalhaven
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April...... |
Convicts escape from Derwent River VDL in ship Unity
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May 8......
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Benevolent Society established |
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May 11 -
June 6.....
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Party consisting of Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth and William Lawson
find route across the Blue Mountains
The plaque on 'The Explorer's Tree reads -
'This wall and fence has been erected by the Hon. JS Farnell
Esq Minister for Lands to preserve this tree marked by Blaxland, Lawson,
Wentworth, being the farthest distance reached in their first attempt to
cross the Blue Mountains in the Month of May AD 1813'.
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June
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Arrival of convict transport
Fortune
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HERE to find
out more about the voyage of the Fortune
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July 6......
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John Macarthur shipped 36
bales of wool to England
Correspondence re the prosperous conditions in New South Wales in 1813
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July...... |
Convict
Assignment and Punishment at Newcastle - Government Orders |
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August
4...... |
73rd Regiment at New South Wales ordered to Ceylon. -
Lieutenant-Colonel O'Connell to go with them. Regiment at Guernsey(46th regt.,)
to embark for NSW on ships Wanstead, Three Bees and General
Hewitt.
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September 24.......
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Foundation stone of the Female
Orphan school laid by Governor Macquarie
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September 30.......
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To alleviate currency
shortages, 'Holey Dollar' and 'dump' became
legal tender. A piece struck out of the centre being valued at 15d. and the
remainder of the dollar at 5s sterling. The Commissary-General also issued
notes of one, two, five, and ten pounds each in payment of provisions,
supplied by individuals to the Stores. The notes were to be consolidated
monthly. (Morning
Chronicle 7 March 184)
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1813 DUMP |
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October 9.......
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Arrival of the convict ship
Earl Spencer from
Portsmouth. Master William Mitchell.
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Earl Spencer
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October.......
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Birth of Ludwig Leichhardt
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November.....
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Assistant Surveyor George
William Evans followed in the tracks of Blaxland Lawson and
Wentworth across the Blue Mountains.
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John Lewin's Birds of New
Holland published.
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