The Penal Colony · event 5 of 9

1808

The Rum Rebellion. The New South Wales Corps deposes Governor William Bligh — the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, and Bligh’s second mutiny.

The The Penal Colony era

  1. 26 January 1788
  2. April 1789
  3. 1790
  4. 1790s–1802
  5. 1808
  6. 1810
  7. 1816
  8. 1819
  9. 1840

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