The Penal Colony · event 2 of 9

April 1789

Smallpox. An epidemic sweeps the harbour, killing by contemporary estimate around half the Aboriginal population of the region within months.

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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