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1804 in Australia

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Other events of 1804Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales – Captain Philip King
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Southern Van Diemen's Land – David Collins
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Van Diemen's Land – William Paterson

    • Events

  • 4 March – The Castle Hill convict rebellion, also known as the Battle of Vinegar Hill, takes place: 200 convicts, mostly Irish, rebel. Fifty-one convicts are punished, and nine hanged.
  • 3 May – An Aboriginal food hunting party is attacked by settlers and soldiers at Risdon Cove. Eyewitness estimates of the death toll from the massacre vary from three or four to fifty.
  • 16 September – A government-owned brewery is opened at Parramatta as a means of controlling the consumption of spirits.
  • 4 November – In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed "Australia" or "Terra Australis" (from the Latin "australis" meaning "of the south").

    • Exploration and settlement

  • 15 February – Lieutenant-Governor David Collins lands at Risdon Cove in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Unhappy with the area as a site for a settlement, Collins sends his surveyor, George Prideaux Harris, and harbour master William Collins in search of an alternative site. Harris and Collins recommend Sullivan's Cove.
  • 24 March – The settlement at the Hunter River, also known as the Coal River, is officially named Newcastle.
  • 8 May – Lieutenant-Governor Collins establishes the settlement at Sullivan's Cove on the Derwent River.
  • 15 June – The name "Hobart Town", after the Colonial Secretary Lord Hobart, is adopted as the name for the new colony at Sullivan's Cove.
  • 5 November – Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson arrives at Outer Cove, leading the Buffalo, the Lady Nelson and two schooners, under instructions from London to form a settlement in the north of Van Diemen's Land.

    • Births

  • 5 October – Robert Campbell, politician (died 1859)

    • Deaths

  • 21 March – James Bloodsworth (born 1759), convict and bricklayer
  • 27 December – George Barrington (born 1755), convict and police officer

    • References

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