The Penal Colony · event 7 of 9

1816

The Botanic Garden is founded. Australia’s oldest scientific institution is established on the site of the colony’s failed first farm at Farm Cove.

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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