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Leaders

Governor of New South Wales – Captain Arthur Phillip
Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
Commanding officer of the colony's marine presence – Major Robert Ross

Events

18 January – HMS Supply of the First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay.
26 January – The First Fleet lands in Port Jackson, Australia from Portsmouth, England, and establishes the English penal colony of New South Wales – the first European settlement in Australia.^[1]
6 February – The first female convicts arrive at Port Jackson.^[1]
9 February – The colony of New South Wales is formally proclaimed. Phillip is sworn in as Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief.^[1]
18 February – Lord Howe Island is discovered by Henry Lidgbird Ball on HMS Supply.^[2]
27 February – A seventeen-year-old convict, Thomas Barrett, receives the first death sentence in the colony.^[1]
6 March – Philip Gidley King is sent from the Port Jackson colony to settle Norfolk Island with a party of fifteen convicts and seven men.^[1]
15 April – Phillip King explores northwards to Manly, and sights the Blue Mountains.^[1]
23 April – Governor Phillip explores the area now known as Parramatta, west of Sydney.^[1]
29 May – Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutters Bay; Phillip leads a punitive attack on the Aborigines on 31 May.^[1]
5 June – All the settlement's cattle brought from Cape Town escape; they are not recaptured until November 1795.^[1]
21 July – First sitting of the Court of Civil Jurisdiction.
September – Sydney's first road, from the Governor's House to Dawes Point, is completed.
October – Due to poor conditions, scurvy breaks out. Phillip orders strict rationing and sends HMS Sirius to Cape Town for supplies.
2 November – A second settlement is established at Rose Hill, which will later become Parramatta.^[1]

Births

The first white child in Australia is born.
4 January – Johann Menge, South Australian explorer and geologist (d. 1852)
16 January – Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (d. 1861)
17 April – Charles Hervey Bagot, South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian (d. 1880)
22 May – William Broughton, bishop (d. 1853)
2 August – Charles Hardwicke, Tasmanian explorer (d. 1880)
24 August – Osmond Gilles, South Australian colonial treasurer (d. 1866)
24 October – John Burdett Wittenoom, Swan River Colony clergyman (d. 1855)
date unknown
- Charles Fraser, botanist (d. 1831)
- Frederick Goulburn, first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1837)
- Frederick Irwin, acting Governor of Western Australia (d. 1860)
- John Ovens, explorer (d. 1825)
- Thomas Pamphlett, convict and castaway (d. 1838)
- Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (d. 1875)
- Edward Buckley Wynyard, New South Wales politician (d. 1864)

Deaths

5 June – Ruth Bowyer, convict (b. c. 1761)

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 The World Upside Down – Australia 1788–1930, National Library of Australia.
↑ Anderson, Atholl (2003). "Investigating early settlement on Lord Howe Island". Australian Archaeology.

Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.

Years in Australia (1788–present)

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