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1824 in Australia

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Other events of 1824 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales- Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Colonel George Arthur

    • Events

  • 5 March – The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Francis Forbes arrives in Sydney.
  • 7 May – The Supreme Court of Tasmania, the first of all the State Supreme Courts, is established by Letters Patent.
  • 17 May – The Supreme Court of New South Wales is created by Letters Patent.
  • 25 August – The Legislative Council of New South Wales sits for the first time.
  • 21 October – Joshua John Moore was the first person to take out a ticket-of-occupation for the land which later became the site of Canberra
  • Name change from ' New Holland ' to ' Australia ', recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, received official sanction by the United Kingdom.

    • Exploration and settlement

  • 12 September – Lieutenant Henry Miller is formally appointed to establish a penal colony at Moreton Bay resulting in the founding of Brisbane on the Brisbane River (Miller had arrived in Moreton Bay a couple of months prior to the formal appointment)
  • 20 September – James Bremer arrives in Port Essington, in the Northern Territory, but rejects the recommended site as a settlement due to its lack of fresh water. Bremer claims the north coast of Australia from 129° to 135° longitude as British territory. On 21 October Bremer's party establishes a settlement at Fort Dundas on Melville Island.
  • 28 September – John Oxley recommends a new settlement be founded at Brisbane after finding Moreton Bay unsuitable.
  • 16 December – Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrive in the area the Aborigines call Corayo on a bay called Jillong.

    • Arts and literature

  • 14 October – W. C. Wentworth and Robert Wardell begin publication of The Australian, the first independent newspaper in Australia.

    • Deaths

  • 5 August – Convict and cannibal Alexander Pearce is hanged for his crimes.

    • References

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