Leaders

• Acting Governor of New South Wales - Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose
  Francis Grose (Lieutenant-Governor)
  Lieutenant-General Francis Grose was a soldier and Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales.-Early life:Grose was born in Greenland, Middlesex, England around 1758. He was the eldest son of Francis Grose the well-known English antiquary, and Catherine Jordan...
  
  
• Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island
  Administrative heads of Norfolk Island
  The Administrator of Norfolk Island acts as a representative both of the Crown and of the Australian Federal Government, as well as carrying out other duties according to the Norfolk Island Act 1979....
  
   - Philip Gidley King
  Philip Gidley King
  Captain Philip Gidley King RN was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. He is best known as the official founder of the first European settlement on Norfolk Island and as the third Governor of New South Wales.-Early years and establishment of Norfolk Island settlement:King was born...
  
  
• Commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps
  New South Wales Corps
  The New South Wales Corps was formed in England in 1789 as a permanent regiment to relieve the marines who had accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. The regiment, led by Major Francis Grose, consisted of three companies...
  
   - Francis Grose
• Inspector of Public Works - John Macarthur
  John Macarthur (wool pioneer)
  John Macarthur was a British army officer, entrepreneur, politician, architect and pioneer of settlement in Australia. Macarthur is recognised as the pioneer of the wool industry that was to boom in Australia in the early 19th century and become a trademark of the nation...
  
  

Events

• February 6 - Captain John Hunter
  John Hunter (New South Wales)
  Vice-Admiral John Hunter, RN was a British naval officer, explorer, naturalist and colonial administrator who succeeded Arthur Phillip as the second governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1795 to 1800.-Overview:...
  
   (former commander of the HMS Sirius
  HMS Sirius (1786)
  HMS Sirius was the flagship of the First Fleet, which set out from Portsmouth, England, in 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales, Australia. Sirius was wrecked off the coast of Norfolk Island in the Pacific Ocean in 1790....
  
  ) is appointed as Phillip's replacement as Governor. However, he is in England at the time and will not arrive until September, 1795.
• April 1 - John Macarthur receives a further grant of 100 acre (0.404686 km²) at Parramatta
  Parramatta, New South Wales
  Parramatta is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Greater Western Sydney west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Parramatta River. Parramatta is the administrative seat of the Local Government Area of the City of Parramatta...
  
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• May 18 - Yemmerrawannie dies in England.
• August 20 - A third attempt to cross the Blue Mountains is made, this time led by Henry Hacking; they return on the 27th - unsuccessful.
• December 17 - Grose leaves New South Wales
  New South Wales
  New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
  
   for England. His positions as Acting Governor and commander of the New South Wales Corps are both filled by William Paterson.
• The first road between Sydney and Paramatta is cleared