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Early settlement
1800 - Fr James Dixon is arrested and transported to New South Wales as convicts.
1807 - William Davis was a convict who donated land to make St. Patrick’s church.
1817 - Fr Jeremiah Flynn arrives to minister to convict Catholics. He’s then arrested a year later.
1804 - First Public Catholic Mass
1804 - Castle Hill Uprising , March 4
1808 —1810 - The Rum Rebellion, 26 Jan (1808) — 1 Jan (1810) -
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1820 - St Mary’s Cathedral was built
1820 - Australia’s first Catholic school was opened in October by George Morley, a Roman Catholic Teacher.
1820 - Fr. John Therry, along with Fr. Conolly, we’re the first official priests to arrive in Australia.
1821 - Establishment of the Catholic Church in Tasmania -
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1835 - Bede Polding becomes Australia’s first Catholic bishop
1837 - William Davis arrived in Sydney in the Alfred on 31 December 1837; his parents and other siblings migrated in 1842.
1854 - Eureka stockade started -
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Formative Years
1838 - Caroline Chisholm was appalled at the conditions that greeted poor and vulnerable women migrants in NSW.
1791 - Mary Reibey arrived in Sydney and became a leading colonial entrepreneur and philanthropist.
Mary MacKillop was an Australian religious sister who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross.
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Growth Years
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Marist brothers and Catholic education
1872 - arrival of the Marist Brothers
1884 - the beginning of Catholic education -
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Contemporary Society