Leaders

• Acting Governor of New South Wales - Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose
  Francis Grose (Lieutenant-Governor)
  Lieutenant-General Francis Grose was a soldier and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales.-Early life:Grose was born in Greenland, Middlesex, England around 1758. He was the eldest son of Francis Grose the well-known English antiquary, and Catherine Jordan...
  
  
• Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island
  Administrative heads of Norfolk Island
  The Administrator of Norfolk Island acts as a representative both of the Crown and of the Australian Federal Government, as well as carrying out other duties according to the Norfolk Island Act 1979....
  
   - Philip Gidley King
  Philip Gidley King
  Captain Philip Gidley King RN was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. He is best known as the official founder of the first European settlement on Norfolk Island and as the third Governor of New South Wales.-Early years and establishment of Norfolk Island settlement:King was born...
  
  
• Commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps
  New South Wales Corps
  The New South Wales Corps was formed in England in 1789 as a permanent regiment to relieve the marines who had accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. The regiment, led by Major Francis Grose, consisted of three companies...
  
   - Francis Grose

Events

• 16 January - Bellona arrives with Australia's first free settlers
• 12 February - John Macarthur
  John Macarthur (wool pioneer)
  John Macarthur was a British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer of settlement in Australia. Macarthur is recognised as the pioneer of the wool industry that was to boom in Australia in the early 19th century and become a trademark of the nation...
  
   is granted 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of land at Parramatta
  Parramatta, New South Wales
  Parramatta is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Greater Western Sydney west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Parramatta River. Parramatta is the administrative seat of the Local Government Area of the City of Parramatta...
  
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• 16 February - John Macarthur is appointed by Grose as inspector of public works.
• 18 February - A school opens in an unfinished
  Unfinished building
  An unfinished building is a building where construction work was abandoned or on-hold at some stage or only exists as a design...
  
   church building is Sydney; the first school had been established in 1789, Isabella Rosson was the first teacher.
• 2 May - Mary Bryant
  Mary Bryant
  Mary Bryant was a Cornish convict sent to Australia. She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling Australian penal colony.-Life:...
  
   is pardoned in England.
• 15 September - Captain William Paterson
  William Paterson (explorer)
  Colonel William Paterson, FRS was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Paterson when citing a botanical name.-Early years:A native of Montrose, Scotland, Paterson was...
  
   leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful.
• 25 September - Sydney's first church opens.