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1 day ago · Sydney - Colonial, Harbour, Settlement: When the English admiral Arthur Phillip arrived off the coast of southeastern Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, he sailed first to Botany Bay, which had been discovered by Captain James Cook in 1770 and to which he had been directed by the British government. Finding the bay too exposed for safe anchorage and the surrounding country unsuitable for ...
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory as well as ...
From 1788 to 1900 Sydney was the capital of the British colony of New South Wales. The town of Sydney was declared a city in 1842, and a local government was established. In 1901, the Australian colonies federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia, and Sydney became the capital of the state of New South Wales. Sydney today is Australia's ...
A Convict Settlement in Sydney The British colony of New South Wales was established in 1788 as a penal colony. After the American War of Independence, Britain, in a time of social upheaval at the beginnings of massive agricultural, industrial and social change, was faced with overcrowded prisons and prison ships and no suitable destination to transport their convicts Lieutenant James Cook's ...
The "newly formed" counties are marked, as are the inland expeditions made 1817–1840. The Nineteen Counties were the limits of location in the colony of New South Wales, Australia. Settlers were permitted to take up land only within the counties due to the dangers in the wilderness. They were defined by the Governor of New South Wales Ralph ...
Period covered by this chapter - 1st July 1790 to 31st December 1809. Governors of the Early Colonial Sydney. 26th January, 1788 to 10th December, 1792: Captain Arthur Phillip, Governor-in-Chief. 11th December 1792 to 11th December, 1794: Major Francis Grose administered. 12th December, 1794 to 11th September, 1795: Captain William Paterson ...
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In May 1787 the British government sent the First Fleet 20,000 kilometres around the world to establish a British colony in New South Wales. Charting the land. Sydney Cove lies 3 leagues to the northward of Botany Bay which is situated in Lat. 34 S : Long 151 E. The eastern coastline of Australia had been charted by James Cook during his first ...
