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Other events of 1798
Timeline of Australian history |
Governor of New South Wales – John Hunter
Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
Inspector of Public Works – Richard Atkins
2 January – George Bass sights Wilsons Promontory
26 January – The koala and lyrebird observed by John Price on an expedition led by John Wilson
12 February – Matthew Flinders explores the Furneaux Islands
25 February – John Hunter names Bass Strait in honour of George Bass
14 May – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society
1 October – Sydney's first church St Philip's is destroyed by fire
7 October – George Bass and Matthew Flinders leave Sydney to explore Van Diemen's Land on the Norfolk
7 October – St Philip's Church founded in Sydney, completed in 1809
8 November – Nauru discovered by John Fearn
9 December – Bass and Flinders confirm the existence of the Bass Strait
22 December – Norfolk enters the Derwent River
25 December – George Bass climbs Mount Wellington
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