1788 in Australia

none February 2020 January 2012 1788 The following lists events that happened during 1788 in Australia. Leaders Monarch – George III Governor of New South Wales – Captain Arthur Phillip Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King Commanding officer of the colony's marine presence – Major Robert Ross Events 18 January – Captain Arthur Phillip arrives in Botany Bay with the lead ship of the First Fleet, Supply 1759 6. 19 January – Alexander, Friendship and Scarborough, convict transports of First Fleet arrive Botany Bay. 20 January – Final ships of First Fleet, the convict transports Charlotte, Lady Penrhyn and Prince of Wales with the supply transports Borrowdale, Fishburn 1780 ship 2 and Golden Grove 1782 ship 2 escorted by Sirius 1786 6 arrive in Botany Bay. 24 January – The La Perouse expedition in the Astrolabe and Boussole arrive at Botany Bay. 26 January – After Botany Bay was decided unsuitable for settlement, the First Fleet sails to Port Jackson and lands at Sydney Cove to establish a settlement (which becomes Sydney).The World Upside Down – Australia 1788–1930, National Library of Australia. 6 February – The first female convicts disembark at Port Jackson. 9 February – The Colony of New South Wales is formally proclaimed, with Phillip sworn in as Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief. 14 February – HMS Supply leaves Sydney Cove to establish a settlement on Norfolk Island. 18 February – Lord Howe Island is discovered by Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball on Supply 1759 6. Investigating early settlement on Lord Howe Island Anderson Atholl Atholl Anderson 2003 Australian Archaeology 27 February – A convict, Thomas Barrett, receives the first death sentence in the colony. 6 March – Lieutenant Philip Gidley King establishes a settlement on Norfolk Island with a party of fifteen convicts and seven men. 10 March – The La Perouse expedition leaves Botany Bay for New Caledonia, disappeared at sea. 15 April – Phillip explores northwards to Manly, and sights the Blue Mountains. 23 April – Governor Phillip explores the area now known as Parramatta, west of Sydney. 5 May – Charlotte, Lady Penrhyn and Scarborough set sail for China.Frank Murcott Bladen Alexander Britton Historical Records of New South Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=kHIhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA692 1893 Lansdown Slattery & Company 978-0-86833-003-7 692– 29 May – Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutters Bay; Phillip leads a punitive attack on the Aborigines on 31 May. 5 June – All the settlement's cattle brought from Cape Town escape; they are not recaptured until November 1795. 14 July – Borrowdale, Alexander, Friendship and Prince of Wales set sail to return to England.John Henniker Heaton Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879 https://archive.org/details/australiandicti00heatgoog 1879 G. Robertson 1– 21 July – First sitting of the Court of Civil Jurisdiction. September – Sydney's first road, from the Governor's House to Dawes Point, is completed. 2 October – Captain John Hunter takes Sirius 1786 6 to the Cape of Good Hope to pick up supplies. 2 November – A second settlement is established at Rose Hill, which will later become Parramatta. 19 November – Fishburn and Golden Grove set sail for England. Births 4 January – Johann Menge, South Australian explorer and geologist (d. 1852) 16 January – Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (d. 1861) 17 April – Charles Hervey Bagot, South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian (d. 1880) 22 May – William Broughton, bishop (d. 1853)Cable K. J. Broughton, William Grant (1788–1853) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/broughton-william-grant-1832 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 26 June 2018 2 August – Charles Hardwicke, Tasmanian explorer (d. 1880) 24 August – Osmond Gilles, South Australian colonial treasurer (d. 1866) 24 October – John Burdett Wittenoom, Swan River Colony clergyman (d. 1855) date unknown Charles Fraser, botanist (d. 1831) Frederick Goulburn, first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1837) John Ovens, explorer (d. 1825) Thomas Pamphlett, convict and castaway (d. 1838) Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (d. 1875) Edward Buckley Wynyard, New South Wales politician (d. 1864) Deaths 17 February – Louis Receveur, astronomer-priest, member of the French La Perouse expedition (b. 1757) 27 February – Thomas Barrett, convict and the first person executed under British law in Australia (b. 1758) 5 June – Ruth Bowyer, convict (b. 1761) References Further reading Barker Anthony What Happened When Allen & Unwin 1996 St Leonards 978-1-86373-986-3 1788 Australia Category:Years of the 18th century in Australia Category:1780s in Australia Australia Australia