- Lieutenant-Governor: James Stirling 1828-1832, then Governor 1832-1839.
- April 25: HMS Challenger, under the command of Capt Charles H. Fremantle, anchors off Garden Island.
- 2 May. Capt Fremantle lands at Bathers Beach, and Bathers Bay and takes "formal possession of the whole of the west coast of New Holland in the name of His Britannic Majesty" King George IV.
- The Government of Western Australia Act 1829 passed (Act 10 George IV ch.22), authorising establishment of Legislative Council.
- 2 June. Captain James Stirling, with Surveyor-General Roe and the first contingent of 68 settlers, arrives at Fremantle in the transport Parmelia, which runs aground on Parmelia Bank.
- June 3: Stirling and company land on Garden Island.
- June 10: First British child born in the new colony, Joseph Mitchell born in Fremantle to parents John and Jane Mitchell.
- 17 June. HMS Sulphur lands with a detachment of the 63rd Regiment. On this day, at Rous Head in North Fremantle, Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling’s proclamation establishing the British ‘settlement’ of Western Australia was read to the 63rd Regiment. Or maybe it was the next day.
- 18 June. Stirling lands on Rous Head. Proclamation of the Colony.
- August. Foundation of Perth and Fremantle.
- 5 September. Sale of the first town allotments: to W. Lamb, J. Hobbs, L. Samson and T. Bannister.
- October 6: Lotus arrived.
- December. Thomas Peel arrives on board the Gilmore.
- December 29: JPs appointed. William Mackie appointed Chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions.
Ship arrivals
This is a list of all 21 ships that arrived at Fremantle in 1829[1]
During 1829, twenty-one vessels arrived at Fremantle, and as the vessels that arrived during that and the following year may be said to have brought the 'Pilgrim Fathers' to our shores, the list is given below. The tonnages of the visiting craft are shown in parentheses and the number of passengers, if any, thereafter:
April 25: HMS Challenger - brought Capt Fremantle
June 2: Parmelia (443) 69 - brought Lt Gov. Stirling, first settlers
June 8: HMS Sulphur, with a detachment of 63rd Regiment
August 5: Calista (316) 73 - second boatload of settlers
August 6: St Leonard (362)
August 23: Marquis of Anglesea (351) 104 - wrecked on Bathers Bay/Manjaree
September 20: Thomson [Thompson] (266)
September 22: Amity (175)
October 5: Georgiana (403)
October 6: Lotus (397) 60
October 9: Ephemina (288) 12
October 12: Orelia (382) 11
October 12: Caroline (329) 66
October 12: Cumberland (444) 4
October 17: Governor Phillip
October 19: Atwick (341) 72
October 22 : Admiral Gifford (43)
November 11: Lion (275)
November 14: Dragon (134)
November 28: HMS Success
December 15: Gilmore (500) 182
References
- ↑ Joseph Keane Hitchcock The History of Fremantle: The Front Gate of Australia, 1829-1929 1929 (Fremantle City Council), Identifier: 15
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 16 January, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/ships/1829.html (it was last updated on 30 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1829.html (it was last updated on 15 November, 2019), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.