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The following lists events that happened during1788 in Australia.

Leaders

Monarch –George III
Governor of New South Wales – CaptainArthur Phillip
Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island –Philip Gidley King
Commanding officer of the colony'smarine presence – MajorRobert Ross

Events

18 January – CaptainArthur Phillip arrives inBotany Bay with the lead ship of theFirst Fleet,HMS Supply.
19 January –Alexander,Friendship andScarborough, convict transports of First Fleet arrive Botany Bay.
20 January – Final ships of First Fleet, the convict transportsCharlotte,Lady Penrhyn andPrince of Wales with the supply transportsBorrowdale,Fishburn andGolden Grove escorted byHMS Sirius arrive in Botany Bay.
24 January – TheLa Perouse expedition in theAstrolabe andBoussole arrive at Botany Bay.
26 January – After Botany Bay was decided unsuitable for settlement, the First Fleet sails toPort Jackson and lands atSydney Cove to establish a settlement (which becomesSydney).^[1]
6 February – The first femaleconvicts disembark atPort Jackson.^[1]
9 February – TheColony of New South Wales is formally proclaimed, with Phillip sworn in as Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief.^[1]
14 February – HMSSupply leaves Sydney Cove to establish a settlement onNorfolk Island.
18 February –Lord Howe Island is discovered by LieutenantHenry Lidgbird Ball onHMS Supply.^[2]
27 February – A convict,Thomas Barrett, receives the first death sentence in the colony.^[1]
6 March – LieutenantPhilip Gidley King establishes a settlement onNorfolk Island with a party of fifteen convicts and seven men.^[1]
10 March – The La Perouse expedition leaves Botany Bay forNew Caledonia, disappeared at sea.
15 April – Phillip explores northwards toManly, and sights theBlue Mountains.^[1]
23 April – Governor Phillip explores the area now known asParramatta, west ofSydney.^[1]
5 May –Charlotte,Lady Penrhyn andScarborough set sail for China.^[3]
29 May – Two convicts are killed byAboriginals atRushcutters Bay; Phillip leads a punitive attack on the Aborigines on 31 May.^[1]
5 June – All the settlement's cattle brought from Cape Town escape; they are not recaptured until November 1795.^[1]
14 July –Borrowdale,Alexander,Friendship andPrince of Wales set sail to return to England.^[4]
21 July – First sitting of the Court of Civil Jurisdiction.
September – Sydney's first road, from the Governor's House to Dawes Point, is completed.
2 October – CaptainJohn Hunter takesHMS Sirius to theCape of Good Hope to pick up supplies.
2 November – A second settlement is established at Rose Hill, which will later becomeParramatta.^[1]
19 November –Fishburn andGolden Grove set sail for England.

Births

4 January –Johann Menge, South Australian explorer and geologist (d.1852)
16 January –Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (d.1861)
17 April –Charles Hervey Bagot, South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian (d.1880)
22 May –William Broughton, bishop (d.1853)^[5]
2 August –Charles Hardwicke, Tasmanian explorer (d.1880)
24 August –Osmond Gilles, South Australian colonial treasurer (d.1866)
24 October –John Burdett Wittenoom,Swan River Colony clergyman (d.1855)
date unknown
- Charles Fraser, botanist (d.1831)
- Frederick Goulburn, firstColonial Secretary of New South Wales (d.1837)
- John Ovens, explorer (d.1825)
- Thomas Pamphlett, convict and castaway (d.1838)
- Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (d.1875)
- Edward Buckley Wynyard, New South Wales politician (d.1864)

Deaths

17 February –Louis Receveur, astronomer-priest, member of the FrenchLa Perouse expedition (b.c. 1757)
27 February –Thomas Barrett, convict and the first person executed under British law in Australia (b.c. 1758)
5 June –Ruth Bowyer, convict (b.c. 1761)

References

^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^jThe World Upside Down – Australia 1788–1930, National Library of Australia.
^Anderson, Atholl (2003). "Investigating early settlement on Lord Howe Island".Australian Archaeology.
^Frank Murcott Bladen; Alexander Britton (1893).Historical Records of New South Wales. Lansdown Slattery & Company. pp. 692–.ISBN 978-0-86833-003-7.
^John Henniker Heaton (1879).Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History of Australasia from 1542 to May, 1879. G. Robertson. pp. 1–.
^Cable, K. J."Broughton, William Grant (1788–1853)".Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved26 June 2018.

Further reading

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Barker, Anthony (1996).What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin.ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.

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