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The following lists events that happened during 1799 in Australia.
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The following lists events that happened during 1799 in Australia.
Vice Admiral John Hunter was an officer of the Royal Navy, who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second Governor of New South Wales, serving from 1795 to 1800.
Philip Gidley King was a British politician who was the third Governor of New South Wales.
The Colonial sloop Norfolk was built on Norfolk Island in 1798 of Norfolk Island Pine. She was wrecked in 1800.
His Majesty's Armed Survey Vessel Lady Nelson was commissioned in 1799 to survey the coast of Australia. At the time large parts of the Australian coast were unmapped and Britain had claimed only part of the continent. The British Government were concerned that, in the event of settlers of another European power becoming established in Australia, any future conflict in Europe would lead to a widening of the conflict into the southern hemisphere to the detriment of the trade that Britain sought to develop. It was against this background that Lady Nelson was chosen to survey and establish sovereignty over strategic parts of the continent.
The following lists events that happened during 1788 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1789 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1791 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1792 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1793 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1794 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1795 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1796 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1797 in Australia.
The following lists events that happened during 1798 in Australia.
Henry Lidgbird Ball was a Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy of the British Empire. While Ball was best known as the commander of the First Fleet's HMS Supply, he was also notable for the exploration and the establishment of colonies around what is now Australia and New Zealand. Specifically, Ball explored the area around Port Jackson and Broken Bay, helped establish the Norfolk Island penal settlement, and discovered and named Lord Howe Island.
Musquito was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader, latterly based in Van Diemen's Land.
HMS Cumberland was a schooner built in Port Jackson, Australia, in 1801.
Francis was a 41 tons (bm) colonial schooner that was partially constructed at the Deptford Dockyard, England, and sent in frame aboard the Pitt to Australia to be put together for the purposes of exploration. The vessel had originally been designed for George Vancouver’s discovery voyage of the west coast of North America.
Peter Kenney Hibbs was an English mariner and a member of the First Fleet to Australia in 1788.
There are 20 known contemporary accounts of the First Fleet made by people sailing in the fleet, including journals and letters. The eleven ships of the fleet, carrying over 1,000 convicts, soldiers and seamen, left England on 13 May 1787 and arrived in Botany Bay between 18 and 20 January 1788 before relocating to Port Jackson to establish the first European settlement in Australia, a penal colony which became Sydney.
