Depth 2: The Birth of British Australia, 1788-1829

When did the First Fleet arrive in New South Wales?

18 January 1788

How many convicts were aboard the First Fleet?

732

When did the Second Fleet arrive?

3 June 1790

When was Lachlan Macquarie Governor?

1809-21

Who did Macquarie remove?

New South Wales Corps

How many male and how many female convicts were there in 1805?

4,000 male and 1,300 female

What was implemented by Governor Brisbane in 1821?

Bigge Report

What penal colonies were established in 1822 and 1824?

Port Macquarie and Norfolk Island

Who allocated work to convicts based not heir previous professions?

Governor Phillip

Where was there a government farm?

Paramatta

Where was the colony established instead of Botany Bay?

Sydney

When were the first land grants given up the Hawkesbury River?

1810-11

How many land grants were given to convicts in Parramatta and Rose Hill?

53 of 66

What were the Macquarie Towns established 1810-11?

Richmond

Castleragh

Pitt Town

Windsor

Wilberforce

What hospital was in Sydney city centre?

Rum Hospital

When was there a smallpox epidemic in New South Wales?

1789

How many of the Capital nation of Aboriginal people near Sydney survived the smallpox epidemic?

8 of 50-80

When were two convicts killed by the local Aboriginal population?

30 May 1788

How many people of the Eora nation of Aboriginal people lived in the area of first settlement?

2,500

When was the Appin massacre?

17 April 1816

How many aboriginal people were killed int he Appin massacre?

14

When was the Black War?

1820s

How many Aboriginal people lived in Van Diemen's Land in 1803?

3,000-4,000

How many sheep were there in Van Diemen's Land in 1827?

400,000

When did the last Tasmanian Aboriginal person die?

1876

When did Governor Arthur declare martial law against Aboriginal people?

1 November 1828

What began after the Third Fleet in 1791?

Whaling

When did sealing threaten the species extinction?

1826

When was whaling and sealing replaced by wool as the colony's main income?

1830s

By when did the colony grow enough grain to feed itself?

1805

When were the Blue Mountains crossed?

1813

When was sheep farming introduced from Port Stephen's to Manning River?

1825

When was a road across the Blue Mountains commissioned?

1814

When was Van Diemen's Land opened as a penal settlement?

1803

Until when did Van Diemen's Land function as adjoined tot he main settlement?

1824

When was George Arthur governor of Van Diemen's Land?

1823-37

When was a small military outpost established at King George Sound in Western Australia?

1826

When was the Swan River Company set up?

1828

When did the first settlers arrive in Western Australia?

1829

By 1832 how many colonists were there in Western Australia?

1,500

When was the New South Wales Act passed?

1823

In 1828 how did the legislative council's membership increase?

7 to 15

When was the Australian Agricultural COmpany set up?

1829