The Penal Colony · event 6 of 9

1810

Macquarie arrives. The new governor builds the town, employs the convict architect Francis Greenway, and treats emancipated convicts as citizens, to the fury of the free settlers.

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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