- June 1: Scindian arrives with the first convicts, on the twenty-first anniversary of foundation. In addition to the convicts and military guards with their wives and families there arrived by Scindian, Captain Henderson, R.E., Comptroller-General of convicts, and a large staff of officials, including Dickson, principal overseer, and James Manning, clerk of works.
- October: Charles Alexander John Piesse arrived.
- October 24: John Bruce arrives on board the Hashemy as Staff Officer to the Pensioner Force.
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/1850.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.