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Other events of 1793
Timeline of Australian history |
Acting Governor of New South Wales – Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose
Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
Commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps – Francis Grose
16 January – Bellona arrives with Australia's first free settlers
22 January – The French d'Entrecasteaux expedition returns to Recherche Bay, Tasmania to rewater and rest.
12 February – John Macarthur is granted 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land at Parramatta.
16 February – John Macarthur is appointed by Grose as inspector of public works.
18 February – A school opens in an unfinished church building is Sydney; the first school had been established in 1789, Isabella Rosson was the first teacher.
28 February – d'Entrecasteaux expedition leaves Tasmania towards the Friendly Islands, continuing search for La Pérouse.
2 May – Mary Bryant is pardoned in England.
15 September – Captain William Paterson leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful.
25 September – Sydney's first church opens.
8 March – David Jones
1 June – Augustus Earle
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