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discovery of tasmania
Abel tasman discovers tasmania -
colony in tasmania
The first colony settled in 1825 -
Cascades female factory
the opening of the cascades female factory and the transferring of the female convicts from hobart to the cascades fremale factory -
the last of the 100 female convicts transferred to cascades female factory
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Establishment of port Arthur as a penal settlement
port Arthur established as a penal settlement instead of a lumber mill. 150 convicts sent there to begin -
the establishment of point puer
Point puer was established purely as an all boys "institution of reformation" to re-educate the boys and give a proper trade which they could practice when their transportation sentence was finished -
Launceston female factory opens
the launceston female factory is opened, presumedly to replace the george town one -
one prisoners escape was quite ingeneous
on prisoner tried escaping by ripping the skin of a dead kangaroo,
and hopping past the guards , one guard decided to have a kangaroo for dinner, he pulled his gun out to shoot the "kangaroo" and the prisoner shouted "I'm not a kangaroo, I'm a prisoner." needless to say, he was caught -
tasmania's first library
tasmania gets its first public library -
End of convict transportation
The end of convict transportation to australia
