1788 in Australia

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  • 1787
  • 1786
  • 1785
1788
in
Australia

Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1788 in Australia.

Leaders

Events

Births

Deaths

  • 17 February – Louis Receveur, astronomer-priest, member of the French La 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

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j The World Upside Down – Australia 1788–1930, National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Anderson, Atholl (2003). "Investigating early settlement on Lord Howe Island". Australian Archaeology.
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  4. ^ 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–.
  5. ^ Cable, K. J. "Broughton, William Grant (1788–1853)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

Further reading

  • Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. .