The Penal Colony at Botany Bay

Penal Colony Institutions -  Transportation  - The Army - The Hospitals - The Commission of Inquiry - Travel - Social Movements -The Courts  - The Prisons  & Barracks - Recreation - Industry and Commerce -

Convict System - Australian history

Transportation
1787-7 - Transportation to Botany Bay Began.
1839 - Transportation of convicts to Queensland ceases
1868 -The last convicts are Transported to Australia.

The Army
1789 - The NSW Corps - Rum Corps, Botany Bay Rangers, Castle Hill Uprising, Rum Rebellion
1800 - Parramatta Infantry - Loyal Association Corps, Captain Thomas Rowley, Parramatta, Mr James
1808 - Rum Rebellion - William Bligh, Rum Corps, John Macarthur, mutiny
1809 - 73rd Regiment of Foot - Governor Macquarie, MacLeod's Highlanders, Lt-Col M.C. O'Connell, Port Jackson, Sydney, Van Diemen's Land, Norfolk Island, Newcastle, South Head, Old South Head Road
1817 - 46th Regiment, the South Devons - British Army, 1741, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot, Sydney, Newcastle, Parramatta, Van Diemens Land, hostile Indigenes, escaped convicts and bushrangers
1817 - 48th Regiment of Foot (Northamptonshire) - Sydney, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Van Diemens Land, Parramatta
1823 - 3rd Regiment of the Line, the East Kents - The Buffs, New South Wales, Governor Darling, Port Macquarie, Port Dalrymple, Tasmania,  Parramatta, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wellington, Botany Bay, Bathurst, convicts
1867-9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment (9 RQR) - Australian Army, light infantry battalion, Boer War, Gallipoli campaign, Western Front, New Guinea campaign
 

The Hospitals
The Parramatta Hospitals,
1789 - Tent Hospital  - Parramatta NSW
1818 - Colonial Hospital Parramatta - Governor Macquarie, Parramatta, John Watts,
 

The Commission of Inquiry
1819 - Commissioner Bigge - Inquiry - Convicts - Lachlan Macquarie - Wentworth - Macarthur - Rev. S.Marsden - Exclusivist

Travel
1814 - Coach Travel - William Highland, Royal Mail, Peter Cunningham, James Atkinson 

1822 - Elizabeth Hawkins, Crossing the Blue Mountains - The diary of first family of white free settlers to cross the Blue Mountains
1827 - Mitchell Sir Thomas L
- Surveyor, General, Explorer, New South Wales, Darling River, Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River, Murray Rivers

1853 - Cobb & Co - Australian land transport- coach travel, Freeman Cobb, James Rutherford, Bathurst NSW

Social Movements
1835 - Australian Patriotic Association, New South Wales, convicts, Emancipists, representative government, Constitution Act of 1842

1848 - Anti-Transportation League - Convict, Transportation, Hashemy, Randolph, New South Wales,  Van Diemen's Land
 

The Courts  
1788 - Collins, David, First Fleet, HMS Sirius, First Judge Advocate of New South Wales, First Lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman’s Land
1838 - Timothy Hurley

1863 - First Chief Justice appointed in Queensland (Sir James Cockle).

The Prisons  & Barracks
1819 - Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney,Male convict Barracks, Female infirm, destitute asylum, Courts and Government Offices, Museum,
1824 - Richmond Gaol - Tasmania, Convicts, Penal Colony Institution, military barracks
1824 - Richmond Gaol, the Guided Tour - Tasmania, Room by room
1824 - Moreton Bay penal colony established in Queensland
1833 - Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania.
1877 - Port Arthur Gaol closed, Tasmania, Port Arthur penal station, 1830, For the term of his natural life, Marcus Clarke
1886 - WA Convict system closes, 1886, convict, Great Britain, Ireland, the Hougomont, Van Diemen’s Land

Recreation
1814 - Australian Boxing, The Early Days- Broughton's Rules, London Prize Ring Rules, James Kelly, Young Kable, Ned Chalker, Young Bailey

Industry and Commerce
1794 - Brewing in Australia, John Boston, Rum currency, Thomas Rushton, John Tooth, Charles Newman, Kent Brewery, Cascade, John Warren
1865 - Arnott's Biscuits, William Arnott, Newcastle, New South Wales, Leslie Arnott, Sao,
 

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