Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Irwin acting Governor 1847-1848, due to the death of Clarke.

In July and August, heavy rains and floods experienced; during that period the first shipment of Abrolhos guano sent away.

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/1847.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.