July 8, 1822 — Percy Bysse Shelley dies
One of the greatest of the Romantic Poets, Shelley was the husband of Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) and a...
April 4, 2021
1822
September 20, 1822 – Alexander Pearce and five others escape Macquarie Harbour
Alexander Pearce was a convict in the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, a “secondary punishment” penal colony located on Sarah Island...
March 29, 2021
September 27, 1822 – Alexander Pearce and his fellows kill and eat the first of their number
Pearce and his five fellows – Alexander Dalton, Thomas Bodenham, Matthew Travers, Robert Greenhill and John Mather – had been...
March 24, 2021
September 30, 1822 — Alexander Pearce and his fellows cross the Franklin River
By this point in their escape – after eleven days on the run – the five remaining escapees reached the...
March 19, 2021
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