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| 1852 |
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| Foundation of the University of Sydney, followed in 1855 by that of Melbourne and later other state capitals. | 1 |
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| 1853, May 26 |
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| Last convict ship arrived in Tasmania (Hobart). Since 1803 about 68,500 convicts had been landed in the island (about 4,000 a year after 1841). The name Tasmania now definitively replaced that of Van Diemen's Land, and a constitution not unlike that of New South Wales was adopted. | 2 |
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| Nov |
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| The convict colony on Norfolk Island was abandoned, after several serious and bloody insurrections. | 3 |
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