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Thomas BROUGH

Male 1750 - 1828  (78 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1769 
  • 6 Oct 1769: James Cook arrives in NZ
    The English navigator Captain James Cook sighted New Zealand on 6 October 1769, and landed at Poverty Bay (now Gisborne) two days later. He drew detailed and accurate maps of the country, and wrote about the Maori people. Thanks to Cook’s detailed charts, and his gentlemen passengers’ scientific and artistic documentation, accurate knowledge of New Zealand was available in Europe for the first time from the 1770s.
1778 
  • 26 Jan 1778: First Convicts arrive in Australia
    On 26 January 1788 the first Governor of NSW, Captain Arthur Phillip, and the First Fleet arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish a penal colony at Sydney Cove. The fleet was made up of 11 ships carrying 750-780 convicts plus 550 crew, soldiers and family members from Britain to Australia.
1804 
  • 1804: Hobart founded
    In 1804 Lieutenant John Bowen, with the British Royal Navy, chose Risdon Cove on the eastern shore of the River Derwent in the south-east of Tasmania for the first settlement of Europeans. In 1804 Lieutenant-governor David Collins moved the settlement across the river and Hobart was founded.
1825 
  • 1825: Tasmania separated from NSW
    In 1825 Van Diemen’s Land, which had been part of the colony of New South Wales, became a British colony in its own right. In 1856 Van Diemen’s Land’s name was changed to Tasmania.