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English explorer William Dampier explored the west coast of Australia.
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Captain Phillip sailed out of Botany Bay aboard the HMS Supply and reached Sydney Cove in the evening.
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The First Fleet arrived in Australia to start a new European settlement.
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3 February Rev. Richard Johnson held the colony’s first religious service ‘on the grass’.
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Fr James Harold & Fr James Dixon arrive as convicts.
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The Swan River settlement was established as a free colony in 1829.
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New Zealand was proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
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Christian Brothers arrive in Sydney (leave in 1847);
3 Italian and one Swiss priest begin a mission to Aborigines on Stradbroke Island -
Roman Catholic Orphan School opened at Parramatta with the transfer of 113 orphans from Waverley.
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Mary Mackillop becomes australia's first saint