1788 in Australia Totally Explained

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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

January 18 - HMS Supply of the First Fleet arrives in Botany Bay.

January 26 - 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.

February 6 - The first female convicts arrive at Port Jackson.

February 7 - The colony of New South Wales is formally proclaimed. Phillip is sworn in as Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief.

February 17 - Lord Howe Island is discovered by HMS Supply.

February 27 - A seventeen year old convict, Thomas Barrett, receives the first death sentence in the colony.

March 6 - Philip Gidley King is sent from the Port Jackson colony to settle Norfolk Island with a party of fifteen convicts and seven men.

April 15 - Phillip explores northwards to Manly, and sights the Blue Mountains.

April 23 - A settlement is established at Parramatta, west of Sydney.

May 29 - Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutters Bay; Phillip leads a punative attack on the Aborigines on the 31st

June 5 - All the settlements cattle brought from Cape Town escape; they're not recaptured until November 1795

July 21 - 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.

November 2 - A second settlement is established at Rose Hill, which will later become Parramatta.

Births

January 26 - The first white child in Australia is born to marine Sergeant Thomas Whittle and his wife.Further Information

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