The Penal Colony · event 9 of 9

1840

Transportation to New South Wales ends. Around 80,000 convicts had been sent. Most served their time and stayed.

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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