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NSW police first use
black trackers and horses to pursue absconding prisoners and bushrangers
Select here to find out about Hunter Valley bushrangers
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January 2......
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Arrival of Convict transport
Ann & Amelia.
Master William Ascough.
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Ann & Amelia
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Bushranger John Donohoe (Bold Jack Donohoe) arrived on board Ann & Amelia.
More about 'Bold Jack Donohoe'
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January 18......
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Arrival of Artist
Augustus Earle in Hobart on the Admiral Cockburn after
being stranded at Tristan da Cunha
Earle, Augustus, 1825 [Tommy,
Newcastle, 1825] [picture] / [Augustus Earle]
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January 23...... |
Arrival of Convict transport
Grenada
Passengers included Rev. Wilkinson & family,
William Ogilvie
&
family, D.A.C.G. Bowerman & wife and surveyor
Heneage Finch.
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Grenada
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January.......
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Rev. L.
Threlkeld
first visited Newcastle
Lancelot Edward Threlkeld (1788 - 1859), by unknown artist, courtesy of
State Library of New South Wales. Original : MIN 45
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February....... |
10,000 acres at
Reid's Mistake made over for London Missionary site |
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February 12........ |
First Supreme Court of NSW empanelled in Sydney |
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February 22....... |
Arrival of convict transport
Asia
(1).
Captain
Thomas Stead. 190 Dr. James Mercer
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HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the Asia
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February...... |
Moreton Bay
settlement moved from Redcliffe to the site of Brisbane |
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February 25....... |
Execution of Aborigine Musquito in VDL....Hobart
Town Gazette |
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February 27....... |
Arrival of Convict
ship
Henry
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Master
James Ferrier. Surgeon
William B. Carlyle.
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the Henry
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March........ |
Establishment of penal settlement on
Maria Island, Tasmania |
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March 17........ |
First St. Patrick Day races on Old South Head Road near
Bellevue Hill |
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March 18....... |
Formation
of Sydney's first race club, the
Sydney Turf Club |
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April........ |
Church services at Newcastle held in the barracks as the church
was in
disrepair |
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April 3....... |
Arrival of Ships Hugh
Crawford and Nimrod from London. Chartered by
Thomas
Potter MacQueen.
Macqueen's agent
Peter McIntyre
passenger. |
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April 22......
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Arrival of
Hooghley Captain P.J.
Reeves, from Cork with 193 male prisoners.
Guard - Captain Logan,
Ensign Taylor and 35 men of 57th Regiment & Mrs. Logan and family.
Select here
to find out more about Captain Logan
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Hooghley |
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April 29.......
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Arrival of
Convict transport
Royal Charlotte
- Captain G.C. Corbyn.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Royal Charlotte. |
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April 29....... |
Arrival of
Asia (111)
Captain Pope
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HERE to find out more about the voyage of
the Asia |
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May....... |
William
Powditch
opening Stores at Newcastle |
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May 7....... |
Arrival of
convict transport
Hercules
.
Captain William Vaughan.
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Hercules.
Superintendent of Police Francis Rossi arrived on the
Hercules.
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May 7....... |
Convict pirates seized the vessel Eclipse at Newcastle and
made their escape from the colony. They were never heard from
again. Find out more here |
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May 14....... |
Arrival of
Augustus Earle in Sydney on the brig Cyprus. |
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May 19......... |
Francis N. Rossi appointed Superintendent of Police in New
South Wales |
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June........ |
Vessel 'Nereid'
wrecked 10 miles north of Newcastle |
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June....... |
Norfolk Island
re-opened as a penal settlement for incorrigible convicts.
Report on Convict Discipline and Management by Alexander Maconochie
(Laid before Parliament in 1838) - Alexander Maconochie
was Superintendent at
Norfolk Island
1840 - 1844 |
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June 7....... |
Sydney Chamber
of Commerce established |
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June 14....... |
Alexander McLeay, Esq.,
appointed
Colonial Secretary NSW |
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June 14....... |
Appointment of William Lithgow as Auditor of
General Accounts |
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June...... |
489 bankrupts gazetted
in the colony in the half year ending June 1825 |
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July....... |
Australian Agricultural Company given 31 year lease of coal
mines at Newcastle
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to find out more about the Australian
Agricultural company
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July 10....... |
Arrival of
the convict ship
Mariner.
Captain William Fotherley
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Mariner in
1825
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July -
August.......
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Bushrangers Jacob's Mob
(Jacob's Irish Brigade) active in Hunter River district
Two Years in New South Wales A Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches of
the Actual State of Society in that Colony By Peter Miller Cunningham |
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August........ |
George Muir
appointed Chief
Constable at Newcastle |
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August 18....... |
Arrival of
Convict transport
Norfolk, Captain Alexander Greig.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Norfolk |
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August 22....... |
Arrival of Minstrel
convict ship. Master Charles Arcoll, Surgeon Hugh Walker.
Select
HERE to find out more about the voyage of the
Mariner in 1825 |
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September....... |
Exploration of
Brisbane River by Edmund Lockyer
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September 4........ |
Arrival of convict ship
Lonach
in Port Jackson
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HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Lonach in 1825 |
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October........ |
57th regt. to
Newcastle to relieve the Buffs (3rd regt.,)
On Monday
afternoon a detachment of teh57the regiment embarked on board
the Government brig Amity, under the command of Captain
Heaviside, to relieve a detachment of the 3rd (Buffs) doing
duty at Newcastle, and sailed the same evening. (SG)
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November 13....... |
Arrival of the
York, Captain Moncrief. On board
Australian Agricultural Company Agent Robert Dawson
and other Company employees 
The Present state of Australia: A Description of the
Country, Its Advantages and Prospects with reference to
Emigration; and a particular account of the manners, customs
and condition of its aboriginal inhabitants' ... By Robert
Dawson |
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November 15....... |
Arrival of ship
Brothers, Captain Motley. Surveyor
John Armstrong, and other
Australian
Agricultural
Company employees on board
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November 22...... |
First postal act
passed .....»Online |
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December 1......
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Governor
Brisbane and family
departed Australia for Europe on the Mary Hope
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Lieutenant-Colonel William Stewart - Administrator of
the colony until 18 December |
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December 3...... |
Van Diemen's Land declared
a separate colony......Online |
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December 3...... |
Arrival of
Henry Porcher
Captain John
Thompson.
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Henry Porcher |
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December...... |
Arrival of Catherine Stewart Forbes - passengers His
Excellency Lieutenant General Ralph Darling;
Captain Dumaresq; Lieutenant Stoddart. |
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Lieutenant General Ralph Darling Governor from December 1825 - 21
October 1831
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December 17....... |
Arrival of
convict ship
Midas with female prisoners. Master James Baigrie.
Surgeon Charles Cameron
Select
HERE
to find out more about the voyage of the Midas in 1825. |
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December 20........ |
First Executive
Council of NSW appointed |
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December 23....... |
Surveyor
Heneage Finch arrived in Newcastle from Sydney by crossing the
Hawkesbury River at Wiseman's Farm |
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December........ |
Henry Dumaresq
appointed
Clerk to the Executive Council |
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December 24....... |
Captain William
Dumaresq appointed to temporary charge of Civil Engineers
Dept. |
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December.......
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Brig 'Elizabeth Henrietta'
wrecked at Newcastle.
Find more Newcastle Shipwrecks here
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December 25....... |
Riot in
the Streets of
Newcastle. Prisoner
William Finnegan stabbed
with a bayonet.
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