Newcastle time line

I have been looking for some Newcastle time lines for a little while This one from the Awaba site has an Awabakal focus.

1791

• escaped convicts, William and Mary Bryant, thought to have located Glenrock Lagoon

1797

• Lt. John Shortland lands on the southern shore of the Hunter River

1799

• the Hunter sails to Bengal with the first coal exports from Newcastle

1800

• August: William Reid locates Lake Macquarie, sailing into the channel after mistaking it for the Hunter River
• November: the Norfolk wrecked on Stockton Beach

1801

• Paterson, Grant and Barrallier explorer the lower Hunter River on the Lady Nelson, seeing "the fires of the natives and many individuals"
• June: first settlement formed at the mouth of the Hunter River under M. Mason; abandoned February 1802
• November: Superintendent Mason reports hostile encounters with Aborigines on the Hunter River, and the theft of two blankets by one man, thought to be under the influence of alcohol

1804

• March: second settlement at `King's Town' (Newcastle) formed under Charles Menzies with 34 Irish convicts implicated in the Castle Hill uprising; thereafter a "place for the reception of desperate characters" and "choice rogues"
• May: six Aboriginal men from Newcastle taken to Sydney to meet Governor King

1812

• January: Governor Lachlan Macquarie inspects the Newcastle settlement

1818

• Benjamin Singleton marks a route a land route from Sydney to Newcastle
• Governor Lachlan Macquarie makes the second of three tours of Newcastle; meets "Burigan, King of the Newcastle native tribe" and 40 men, women and children, who entertain with a short "Carauberee"; "I ordered them to be treated with some grog and an allowance of maize".

1819

• September 18: convict Henry Langton receives 75 lashes at Newcastle for "Cutting a black native with a knife"
• November: John Howe marks a route from Windsor to the Hunter River near Jerrys Plains

1820

• January: Commissioner J.T. Bigge inspects the Newcastle penal settlement
• October: death of King Burrigan of the Newcastle tribe, from injuries sustained in the recapture of the convicts James Kirby and James Thompson
• October 28: three convicts, Robert Davis, Thomas Franklin and William Page flogged for `Inhumanely ill treating and cutting a black native and intimidating him against bringing in bushrangers'
• December: trial and execution in Sydney of James Kirby for the murder of King Burrigan

1821

• John Laurio Platt receives a 2000 acre grant on the lower Hunter River near Newcastle
• Governor Macquarie makes his second tour of Newcastle; meets Bungaree at Wallis Plains

1823

• November: Governor Brisbane inspects the Newcastle settlement

1824

• September: LMS Deputation (Reverend Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet) inspect the Hunter River

1826

• January 5: Sydney Gazette publishes two `Australian Aboriginal Song[s]', by Threlkeld, being the first publication of an attempt to capture the Awabakal language in writing

1827

• publication of Threlkeld's Specimens of a Dialect of the Aborigines of New South Wales

1829

• Threlkeld dismissed from the LMS

1836

• publication of Threlkeld's An Australian Spelling Book

1839

• members of the United States Exploring Expedition visit Threlkeld's Ebenezer mission

1841

• Threlkeld returns to Sydney and takes up the pastorate of the South Head Congregational Church (Watson's Bay, NSW), concluding 15 years of missionary work at Lake Macquarie

1850

• publication of Threlkeld's A Key to the Structure of the Aboriginal Language

1857

• death of King Bully of Newcastle

1859

• death of Reverend Threlkeld

1873

• death of Old Ned White

1892

• publication of Dr. John Fraser's An Australian Language

Source:

D.A. Roberts, H.M. Carey and V. Grieves, Awaba: A Database of Historical Materials Relating to the Aborigines of the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie Region, University of Newcastle, 2002
<http://www.newcastle.edu.au/group/amrhd/awaba/>