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La Perouse enters Botany Bay and his chaplain, Abbe Mones, celebrates the first
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First Irish convicts transported to Botany Bay
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2086 Irish Convicts had been transported to Australia
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First official public mass is held by priest Father Dixon
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The first official priests of Australia, Father John Therry and Father Phillip Conolly arrived in Australia.
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Father Therry founds the first Catholic school on Hunter Street Parramatta.
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Father Therry is removed from his role as the colonies official chaplain after being misquoted in the Sydney Gazette.
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Australia's first census is held and reveals that the white population of 36,598 include 25,248 Protestants and 11,236 Catholics.
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Penal laws preventing Catholics holding Government positions ends.
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Father Power dies.
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Father John McEncroe is appointed as official chaplain to the Catholics of Australia.
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St Mary’s Chapel is completed. Father Therry celebrates the first Mass there.
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Bishop Polding arrives in Hobart and a short time later sails to Sydney.
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Bishop Polding takes controls of schools and by 1836 has 13 primary schools in operation. Seven are for boys and six are for girls.
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Governer Bourke reinstates Father Therry as the colony’s official chaplain. Catholic centres are established in Wollongong, Maitland, Parramatta and Windsor.
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Five Sisters of Charity arrive in Sydney with a mission to help the poor and disadvantaged in response to a request from Archbishop Polding for a community of sisters in his colony.
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Transportation of convicts to New South Wales is suspended.
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Father John McEncroe founds the Freeman’s Journal in 1850 continuing the tradition of a weekly informative Catholic newspaper.
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The NSW Government passes the bill to abolish State aid to religion.
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Arrival of the Jesuits in Sydney.
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Death of Mother Mary Mackillop.
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World War 1 is declared
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Formation of the Catholic Teachers Federation.
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Foundation of the Catholic Immigration Office to welcome and assist new immigrants.