Governor: John Hutt, 1839-1846.
Governor Hutt petitioned to permit the building of an Anglican church on King's Square. St John's was opened in 1843.
The first temperance society in the colony established in Fremantle.
Freotopia
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/1839.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.