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Other events of 1789
Timeline of Australian history |
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
January – A convict uprising on Norfolk Island is easily crushed.
April – An outbreak of smallpox at the Sydney Cove settlement kills many local Eora Aboriginals, including Arabanoo.
29 April – The Mutiny on the Bounty occurs; Captain William Bligh and 18 others are cast adrift.
4 June – The first Government House is completed.
4 June – Australia's first theatrical performance The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar staged with convicts acting in the roles.
12 June – Phillip leads an expedition to Broken Bay (departed from Sydney on the 6th), and discovers the Hawkesbury River.
27 June – Captain Watkin Tench and party discover the Nepean River
5 October – The first ship built in the colony, Rose Hill Packet, begins service on the Parramatta River.
21 November – James Ruse, a convict, provisionally given land at Parramatta to establish Experiment Farm.
25 November – For the purposes of understanding Aboriginal culture, Phillip captures Bennelong and Colebec.
December – First successful harvest at Parramatta
19 January – Madame Rens, New South Wales settler and merchant (d. 1873)
16 March – Edward Macarthur, Administrator of Victoria (d. 1872)
1 May – George Fife Angas, Businessman and politician (d. 1879)
29 September – Benjamin Carvosso, first Wesleyan minister to preach in Australia (d. 1854)
November – Peter Miller Cunningham, naval surgeon and author (d. 1864)
5 November – William Bland, Medical practitioner, surgeon and politician (d. 1868)
date unknown
John Bateman, Fremantle pioneer, merchant and whaler (d. 1855)
Prosper de Mestre, merchant (d. 1844)
Michael Fenton, first Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (d. 1874)
Thomas Gilbert, South Australian pioneer (d. 1873)
Robert Menli Lyon, Aboriginal advocate (d. 1874)
18 May – Arabanoo, cultural mediator between the British settlers and Eora Aboriginals
December – George Austin, gardener on HMS Guardian
December – James Smith, gardener on HMS Guardian
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