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Leaders

Admiral Arthur Phillip, first governor of New South Wales

• Governor of New South Wales - Captain Arthur Phillip
• Governor of Norfolk Island - Philip Gidley King
• Commanding officer of the colony's marine presence - Major Robert Ross

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Events

• January 26 - The First Fleet lands in Port Jackson, Australia from Portsmouth, England, and establishes the English penal colony of New South Wales - the first European settlement in Australia.
• February 7 - The colony of New South Wales is formally proclaimed. Phillip is sworn in as Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief.
• March 6 - Philip Gidley King is sent from the Port Jackson colony to settle Norfolk Island with a party of fifteen convicts and seven men.
• April 15 - Phillip explores northwards to Manly, and sights the Blue Mountains.
• May 29 - Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutter's Bay
• October - Due to poor conditions, scurvy breaks out. Phillip orders strict rationing and sends H.M.S. Sirius to Cape Town for supplies.
• November - A second settlement is established at Rose Hill, which will later become Parramatta.

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Births

The first white child in Australia is born on the 26th of January to marine Sergeant Thomas Whittle and his wife.