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Other events of 1795
Timeline of Australian history |
Acting Governor of New South Wales – William Paterson
Governor of New South Wales – John Hunter
Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
Commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps – William Paterson
Inspector of Public Works – John Macarthur
May or June – The Battle of Richmond Hill takes place between the native Darug people and the New South Wales Corps.
7 September – HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney. Among the ship's passengers and crew are the Aboriginal Bennelong returning from a visit to England, the surgeon and explorer George Bass, and midshipman Matthew Flinders.
11 September – Floods devastate the farms at Hawkesbury.
? - A tornado strikes Sydney, destroying crops and trees in the early settlement, 1st tornado recorded in the BOM's severe weather archives.
28 April – Charles Sturt
21 July – George Gawler, second Governor of South Australia, born in Southsea.
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