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  John Macarthur buys and imports first Merino sheep
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  Hobart Town established
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  Irish convicts leas armed uprising in the colony of N.S.W.
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  In Van Diemen’s c become more hostile.
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  First European crossing of Blue Mountains.
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  1824 William Wentworth establishes a newspaper
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  British government allows migration to Australia for free
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  John Batman and John Fawkner, both sons of convicts, found Melbourne.
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  Squatters have rapidly expanding sheep and cattle enterprises
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  Myall Creek Massacre
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  First political elections.
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  Rum Corps established
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  Australia wide depression as market in wool collapses.
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  1790 Pemulwuy and his son Tedbury of the Eora people, launch a guerilla style campaign of aboriginal resistance.
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