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Female Immigrants
First boatload of free women arrives in NSW -
Slavery Abolishment Act (World Event)
Bans slavery across the British empire freeing more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa as well as a small number in Canada. It received Royal Assent on August 28, 1833, and took effect on August 1, 1834. -
Henty Family Arrive
First permanent settlers in Port Phillip District (Victoria). Edward Henty and his brother Stephen arrived in Portland Bay in November 1834. -
Batman's Treaty
John Batman & Wurundjeri make an agreement.
When John Batman arrived in Port Phillip in 1835, he approached local Indigenous leaders with a contract, to ‘buy' their land. His negotiations were successful, and he walked away with 240,000 hectares of prime farming terrain – almost all of the Kulin nation's ancestral land. -
South Australia begins as a British Colony
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New Zealand Founded (World Event)
Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British -
Transportation Ends
Britain stops convicts to NSW -
Immigrants home opened
In Sydney by Caroline Chisholm