1788 in Australia
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See also: other events of 1788, 1789 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
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[edit] Leaders
Admiral Arthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales.
- 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
[edit] 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 are 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.
[edit] Births
- January 26 - The first white child in Australia is born to marine Sergeant Thomas Whittle and his wife.
[edit] References
- Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986.
- National Library of Australia. The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 - 1830.
