1791 in Australia

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Decades:

1780s
1790s
1800s
1810s

Leaders

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

Events

22 February – The first land grant in Australia is made to ex-convict James Ruse.
March – Philip Gidley King returns to Norfolk Island from Britain and resumes command from Robert Ross.
3 May – 1st Lt. Ralph Clark records in his diary that he has ordered three female convicts flogged. Catherine White faints after the first 15 lashes, Mary Teut after 22. When Mary Higgins has received 26 lashes, Lieutenant Clark "forgave her the remainder (he has ordered 50) because she was an old woman".
2 June – Rose Hill renamed Parramatta.
1 August – The Third Fleet begins to arrive with convicts and supplies; the first ship, Matilda brings 205 convicts.
18 August – Richard Bowen enters and names Jervis Bay aboard the Atlantic.
28 September – The ships Active and Queen arrive; Queen is coming from [{Cork, city|Cork]], with the first contingent of Irish convicts.
29 September – The West Coast of Australia is claimed by British Commander George Vancouver when he sailed into King George Sound, previously only the east coast had been claimed for the Crown.
16 October – Admiral Barrington, the last ship of the Third Fleet arrives, with Captain William Paterson of the New South Wales Corps on board.
24 October – Britannia and William and Ann set out on Australia's first whaling expedition.
1 November – A party of twenty-one convicts escape from Port Jackson and (with an obviously limited knowledge of Australian geography) attempt to walk to China. Some die in the wilderness, while others are recaptured.
5 December – Ross returns to Port Jackson from Norfolk Island. His marines, having been displaced by the newly arrived New South Wales Corps, are frequently drunk and rowdy. On 17 December, Ross and most of the marines returned to England on HMS Gorgon.

Births

January – James Stirling
26 April – John Lee Archer
13 July – Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, best known for discovering the Darling Downs is born in Wimbledon, London.
4 August – Henry Savery
13 December – Phillip Parker King
George Gipps

Deaths

28 January – Henry Dodd

References

Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.
National Library of Australia. "The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 – 1830". Archived from the original on 20 March 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2007.

Years in Australia (1788–present)

1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800

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Timeline of Australian history

1791 in Oceania

Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue

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