The Penal Colony · event 8 of 9

1819

Hyde Park Barracks. Greenway’s convict dormitory opens, housing up to 600 men. It later becomes an immigration depot for single women and is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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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