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| 1791 | Discovery of Coal by escaping convicts in 1791 |
| 1793 | Launch of the Francis |
| 1797 | Hunter River Discovered 1797 |
| 1800 | Discovery of Lake Macquarie |
| 1800 | Pirates Seize the Norfolk |
| 1801 | Lieutenant James Grant |
| 1801 | Expedition to the Hunter River |
| 1801 | Ensign Barrallier |
| 1801 | Caley, George - Botanist. Expedition to the Hunter River |
| 1801 | John Harris, surgeon. Expedition to the Hunter River |
| 1801 | Colliers Point and the First Settlement at Newcastle |
| 1802 | Early Convict Coal Miners |
| 1804 | Castle Hill Rebellion |
| 1804 | Second Settlement |
| 1804 | Lieutenant Charles Menzies - Royal Marine. Commandant at Newcastle 1804 |
| 1804 | James Mileham, surgeon |
| 1804 | Convicts from the Castle Hill Rebellion |
| 1804 | John Tucker - Appointed Store keeper at Newcastle in 1804 |
| 1804 | Thomas Brady - Irish rebel |
| 1804 | Cedar Getters - Correspondence from Lieut. Menzies re the difficulties of procuring cedar |
| 1804 | Description of the fate of Convict Pirates at the hand of natives near Newcastle |
| 1804 | Charles Throsby. Assistant surgeon and magistrate |
| 1804 | Thomas Desmond - bushranger |
| 1804 | Robert Brown - botanist |
| 1805 | Instructions to Ensign Draffen |
| 1805 | Charles Throsby to Newcastle on the Francis in March |
| 1805 | Lieut. William Lawson Temporary Commandant |
| 1806 | John Fitzgerald - bushranger |
| 1806 | Pirates at Newcastle - The fate of convict escapees |
| 1807 | Government Rules - to prevent prisoners having any contact with the outside world |
| 1808 | Lime Burners Gang |
| 1808 | George Crossley - Arrived on the Hillsborough in 1799. |
| 1808 | William Gore - convict |
| 1808 | Sir Henry Browne Hayes - convict |
| 1808 | Murder at Newcastle |
| 1809 | Lieutenant William Lawson, Commandant |
| 1809 | Thomas Crump - Boat builder. Arrived on the Surprize in 1794 |
| 1810 | Governor Macquarie's Notice re free pardons |
| 1810 | Correspondence of Lieut Lawson re state of the settlement |
| 1810 | Roger Farrell's Correspondence re injustices he had suffered at Newcastle |
| 1810 | Newcastle Penal Settlement - Under command of Lieut. John Purcell of 73rd Regiment |
| 1810 | William Evans - appointed assistant surgeon in 1810 |
| 1811 | Lieut. Thomas Skottowe, Commandant |
| 1811 | James Hardy Vaux wrote his Memoirs including the Vocabulary of the Flash Language |
| 1811 | Garrett Armstrong - bushranger |
| 1811 | Governor Macquarie's Tour of Inspection |
| 1812 | William Harrison Craig - Convict artist, arrived on the Guildford in 1812. |
| 1813 | Convict Assignment and Punishment - Government Orders |
| 1814 | Pirates Seize the Speedwell |
| 1814 | Walter Preston - Engraver |
| 1814 | William Eckford - harbour pilot |
| 1814 | Thompson, Lieutenant Thomas - 46th regt., Commandant at Newcastle 1814 - 1816 |
| 1815 | Newcastle Port Regulations |
| 1815 | Drowned in the Hunter River |
| 1815 | Joseph Lycett - Convict artist |
| 1815 | Gentleman John Smith - sent to Newcastle in 1815 |
| 1816 | Newcastle Gaol |
| 1816 | Captain James Wallis - Commandant |
| 1816 | Henry Wrensford - Newcastle's first school master |
| 1816 | Shipwrecks at Newcastle |
| 1816 | The brig Kangaroo arrived at Newcastle |
| 1817 | Francis Beattie - Innkeeper |
| 1817 | Death of Private Peter Connachton |
| 1818 | Major James Thomas Morisset, Commandant |
| 1818 | Governor Macquarie's Visit to Newcastle |
| 1818 | A Description of Newcastle Aboriginal people - By traveller W.B. Cramp |
| 1820 | James McGreavy - innkeeper |
| 1820 | Frederick Dixon arrived in Newcastle |
| 1820 | Boatbuilder - Fortisco de Santo |
| 1820 | Abraham Fenton - Appointed Assistant Surgeon at Newcastle |
| 1820 | Newcastle in 1820 - Newspaper Extracts - Death of Burrigan in October |
| 1820 | Coal Fire Beacon at Newcastle built when E.C. Close was employed as Engineer at Newcastle |
| 1820 | Botany Bay Hero, Michael Keane arrived on the Seaflower in 1820 |
| 1821 | Christ Church opened for service |
| 1821 | John Bingle arrived as second officer on the convict ship Minerva |
| 1821 | Alexander Livingstone arrived as chief officer on the Jessie |
| 1821 | Rev. George Augustus Middleton appointed to Newcastle |
| 1821 | William Smith - overseer of boat builders. Arrived on ship Larkins in 1817 |
| 1821 | Edward C. Close, engineer of Public Works |
| 1822 | Henry Dangar surveyed the streets in 1822 - 1823 |
| 1822 | George Brooks appointed assistant surgeon at Newcastle |
| 1822 | Bells played an important part in the lives of our ancestors |
| 1822 | Convicts at Newcastle in 1822 - Newspaper extracts |
| 1822 | A List of Buildings at Newcastle |
| 1822 | Cottage Creek |
| 1822 | Convicts from Penal settlement moved to Port Macquarie |
| 1823 | Henry Gillman - Commandant |
| 1824 | Newcastle in 1824 - Newcastle Extracts |
| 1824 | Lieutenant Thomas Owen Engineer of Public Works and Naval Officer |
| 1824 | Francis Allman - Commandant |
| 1825 | Newcastle in 1825 - Newspaper Extracts |
| 1825 | Rev. Lancelot Threlkeld - permitted to reside at the government cottage at Newcastle |
| 1825 | Pirates Seize the cutter Eclipse |
| 1825 | Charles Hughes assistant-pilot |
| 1825 | Horse Patrols and the Mounted Police |
| 1826 | Gregory Blaxland opened salt works |
| 1826 | Explosion at Newcastle - children killed |
| 1826 | A description of Newcastle and Maitland |
| 1826 | Attempt to Seize the Gurnett |
| 1826 | Duncan Forbes Mackay Superintendent of Public Works at Newcastle in 1826 |
| 1827 | Old convict barracks |
| 1827 | Signal Flags at Newcastle - township was lacking in government funding. |
| 1827 | Samuel Wright - Superintendent of Police at Newcastle |
| 1828 | The Bank of Newcastle - First Provincial Bank established in the Colony |
| 1828 | Newcastle Publicans |
| 1828 | Newcastle in 1828 |
| 1828 | Richard Binder - Innkeeper |
| 1828 | James and Nancy McClymont - innkeepers |
| 1828 | Arnold Fisk - harbour master and pilot |
| 1829 | Newcastle in 1829 |
| 1829 | Alexander Walker Scott Granted 2560 acres of land at Ash Island in 1829 |
| 1830s | Cumberland at Newcastle |
| 1830 | Female Factory at Newcastle |
| 1830 | James Reid resided at Newcastle 1830s and 1840s |
| 1830 | Australian Agricultural Company |
| 1830 | Sea Grave Yard |
| 1830 | Executions at Newcastle, Maitland and the Hunter Valley in 1830s and 1840s |
| 1831 | John Butler Hewson - constable and innkeeper |
| 1831 | First Mine at Newcastle - A. A. Company |
| 1831 | A. A. Company miners |
| 1831 | Hunter River Steamers |
| 1831 | Sophie Jane Steamer - a voyage to Newcastle on the Sophie Jane |
| 1831 | Commander Edward Biddulph |
| 1831 | Rev. Charles Pleydell Neale Wilton appointed to the chaplaincy at Newcastle |
| 1833 | Governor Bourke to Newcastle |
| 1833 | William Cromarty - pilot |
| 1834 | John Field - gaoler |
| 1835 | William Atkinson - bushranger |
| 1836 | Governor Bourke to Newcastle |
| 1836 | Military Barracks at Newcastle |
| 1837 | James Henry Crummer - Magistrate at Newcastle 1837 - 1849 |
| 1837 | George Jackson - harbour master and pilot |
| 1838 | Miner at Newcastle - refusal to work |
| 1839 | Frank the Poet arrived on the Eliza convict ship in 1832 |
| 1839 | Richard Tasker Furlong, Engineer and Superintendent at No. 3 Stockade |
| 1839 | United States Exploring Expedition |
| 1839 | Wreck of the King William Steamer |
| 1840s | William Wilton, Medical Practitioner |
| 1840 | Robert Lorn Pattison - steam boat captain |
| 1840 | Cabbage Tree Hats |
| 1842 | Bushrangers near Newcastle escape from the stockade |
| 1843 | Long Tom Forrester - Bushranger. Executed at Newcastle |
| 1843 | Stockton History and Links |
| 1844 | Governor Gipps' Visit to Newcastle |
| 1844 | Journal of a Voyage from Sydney to Newcastle and Maitland - by David Burn |
| 1844 | Edward Last, assistant engineer at Newcastle Stockade |
| 1844 | Miners' Arms |
| 1845 | George Elde Darby, Surveyor and Headmaster |
| 1847 | John Edward Stacy, Medical practitioner |
| 1847 | Reminiscences of George Priest - Description of Newcastle in 1840s and 1850s |
| 1847 | Alexander Gamack - Medical Practitioner and Surgeon at Newcastle |
| 1849 | Boom in shipping with advent of California fleet and gold discovery |
| 1849 | John Edward Newell Bull - Superintendent of the breakwater |
| 1850 | Obelisk erected on site of the old brick and stone windmill |
| 1850 | Richard Beacher - pilot |
| 1851 | Alexander Flood - innkeeper |
| 1850s | Reminiscences of Colin Christie |
| 1850s | Reminiscences of Albert Hudson and Robert Fleming |
| 1850s | Reminiscences Hugh Gilmour |
| 1852 | Report on the Sandhills at Newcastle |
| 1853 | Richard Ryther Steer Bowker |
| 1853 | Presbyterian Church St. Andrews opened on site of the first military barracks |
| 1853 | Branch of Bank of NSW opened |
| 1854 | Branch of Bank of Australasia opened |
| 1854 | Firsts warden of Newcastle District Council John Edward Stacey |
| 1855 | Iron gang and convict establishment abandoned |
| 1855 | Last of the Military left Newcastle |
| 1855 | No. 3 Battery Volunteer Artillery formed |
| 1855 | County Electors in Newcastle |
| 1856 | Port of Newcastle |
| 1857 | Railway between Newcastle and Maitland on March 30th |
| 1858 | Signal Staff at Newcastle |
| 1858 | Coal Mines at Newcastle by Henry T. Plews |
| 1859 | Incorporation of the City of Newcastle |
| 1859 | James Hannell elected first Mayor |
| 1860s | Reminiscences of James Charles Davies |
| 1860s | Reminiscences of Owen Ahern |
| 1861 | Cosby William Morgan - Honorary Medical Office - Newcastle Hospital |
| 1861 | Rob the Ranter - Observer and commentator |
| 1861 | Harbour Lights- leading lights at Newcastle |
| 1861 | Newcastle Lifeboats |
| 1863 | Old convict-built hospital converted from a gaol by Capt. Wallis, pulled down |
| 1865 | New hospital built |
| 1867 | 5000 persons in the borough |
| 1867 | Gas first turned on 29 October |
| 1868 | William Brooks Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1870 | Newcastle in 1870 - People and Places |
| 1870 | Joseph Walmsley - Innkeeper, City Arms |
| 1870 | W. A. Sparke Mayor Newcastle |
| 1870 | Adamstown history |
| 1870 | Remnants of the old Gaol pulled down |
| 1871 | Newcastle population 7581 |
| 1872 | Post Office building in Watt street completed |
| 1872 | A. A. P. Tighe, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1875 | John James Coombes, Convict Ship Captain and later wharfinger at Newcastle |
| 1870s | Reminiscences of Benjamin Joseph Oliver |
| 1874 | E. A. White, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1875 | Gas street lighting commenced |
| 1876 | F. J. Shaw, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1877 | First asphalt paths laid |
| 1877 | George Wallace, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1878 | Railway Station erected |
| 1880 | Samuel Chapman, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1880 | City Baths |
| 1880 | Reminiscences of Watt Street, Newcastle |
| 1881 | Joseph Creer, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1881 | Population of Newcastle 8986 |
| 1882 | Thomas Brooks, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1883 | William Laing, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1884 | Stewart Keightley, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1885 | Newcastle proclaimed a City |
| 1885 | C. W. Morgan, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1886 | John Thorn, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1887 | G. W. Webb, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1887 | Tramway to Wallsen opened and gaol hill was made the tram terminus |
| 1888 | Henry Buchanan, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1889 | New hospital to be built |
| 1890 | Colin Christie, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1891 | W. T. Gibb, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1892 | J. R. Rodgers, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1893 | A. F. Moore, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1894 | Alfred Asher, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1895 | Dr. May Harris - Newcastle's first female medical practitioner qualified in 1895 |
| 1895 | W. B. Sharp, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1896 | Thomas Smith, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1897 | David Miller, Mayor of Newcastle |
| 1901 | Population of Newcastle 12,947 |
| 1916 | A Last Farewell - Anzac Day at Newcastle |
| 1922 | Newcastle Baths officially opened in November 1922 |
| 1923 | Fleming Brothers Reunion sons of Peter Fleming re-unite at Newcastle |
| 1947 | Australia's Strongest Sports Centre |
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Lieut. Charles Menzies - Age 21, March 1804 - Feb 1805 Ensign Cadwallader Draffen Age, 23March 1805 - 20th March 1805 Charles Throsby Age 28, 20th March 1805 - Dec 1805 Lieut. William Lawson Age 31, Dec 1805 (Temporary) Charles Throsby Age 29, Dec. 1805 - Sept .1808 Ensign Villiers Sept. 1808 - Dec. 1808 Lieut.William Lawson Age 34, Dec. 1808 - Feb. 1810 Lieut. John Purcell Age 37, Feb. 1810 - Dec. 1811 Lieut. Skottowe Dec. 1811 - Feb. 1814 Lieut. Thomas Thompson Feb.1814 - June 1816 Captain James Wallis (46th regiment) Age 31,June 1816 - Dec. 1818 Major James Thomas Morisset Age 38,Dec. 1818 - 1823 |