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First Fleet Arrives in Botany Bay
One tenth of all the Convicts that came to Australia were Irish convicts, fkeeing for their lives after political persecution in their home land. -
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Catholics In Australia from 1788
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Father Dixon Holds First Mass In This Year
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Rum Rebellion In NSW, Successfull Overthrow of Governent
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Father Jeremiah O'Flynn Becomes Prefect-Apostolic of New Holland
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Father O'Flynn Deported After Colonial Opposition to his Appointment
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Fathers Therry and Conolly Become the First Official Catholic Priests to Arrive
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The First Catholic Church is Constructed at Richmond, Tasmania
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Father Ullathorne Arrives into Sydney as the First Vicar-General
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Bede Polding is Made Australia's First Catholic Bishop
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James Alepius Goold becomes first Catholic bishop of Melbourne
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The Catholic Church in Australia is divided into Provinces and Dioceses
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Establishment of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Australia
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St. Vincent's Hospital opens in Sydney
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St. Mary's Cathedral Destroyed by a Fire
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Mary McKillop and Fr. Julian Tenison Woods found Sisters of St. Joseph
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Christian Brothers arrive in Melbourne
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Bishops' Pastoral Statement complains of injustice to Aborigines
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Colonial governments end state-aid to Church schools
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Roger Vaughan O.S.B becomes Archbishop of Sydney
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First permanent St. Vincent de Paul Society established in Australia
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Archbishop Moran made Cardinal
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St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne opened
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French Missionaries of the Sacred Heart arrive in Australia
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Archbishop Gilroy becomes first Australian Cardinal
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Archbishop James Robert Knox appointed Archbishop of Melbourne
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Paul VI visits Australia
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Paul VI establishes Maronite diocese in Australia
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John Paul II visits Australia
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John Paul II establishes a Melkite diocese in Australia
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John Paul II visits Australia for Beatification of Mary McKillop
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Opening of Corpus Christi seminary
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St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney completed