Following on from December's issue:
1803 - September 8 and September 11, the Lady Nelson and Albion arrive at Risdon Cove on Derwent, to
establish the first European settlement on the island under the command of Lt. John Bowen.
1804 - May 3. An attack on Aborigines at Risdon Cove occurs. Eye-witness accounts of the massacre vary greatly with estimates of the dead ranging from three or four to fifty.  May 9, Lt. David Collins takes charge of the Risdon settlement, and subsequently removes it to Sullivan's Cove site.  June 15 Hobart Town adapted as name for new settlement. Nov 5 a party under the charge of Lt. Col. William Paterson arrives in the
Buffalo, Lady Nelson and 2 schooners at Outer Cove (George Town) under instruction from Governor King to begin a settlement on the north of the island.  Nov 12, an Aborigine killed, another wounded at Paterson's Camp.
1805 - William Collins establishes a whaling station at Droughty Point on the Derwent.  June 24, Lt. David Collins informs Governor King of an extreme shortage of food at the settlement.
1806 - March, Paterson moves northern settlement (then called Port Dalrymple) to present site of Launceston.
1807 - Feb 3, Thomas Laycock and party embarks on first overland expedition from Port Dalrymple (in north) to Hobart (in south).  Nov29 first settlers from Norfolk Island arrive.
1808 - Sept 29, the name 'Launceston' is first used to refer to the northern settlement in official
correspondence.
1809 - March 30, deposed Governor of NSW, William Bligh, arrives at Hobart Town and temporarily disrupts Lt. David Collins' power of authority over the
settlement.
1810 - Jan 8 the first newspaper The Derwent Star and Van Diemens Land Intelligencer is printed in colony.
1811 - Nov 22 Governor Lachlan Macquarie (NSW) arrives and begins tour of inspection of island.  He names Elizabeth Town (New Norfolk), lays a
geometrical plan for Hobart streets and issues
instructions for the building of barracks, hospital, gaol, signal station and a new Government House there.
1812 - June 30 Northern settlements made
subordinate to Hobart.  Oct 19 - Indefatigable, the first direct convict transport from Britain arrives.
1813 - April 3 - Ports of Van Diemen's Land open to commerce.