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Marcellin Champagnat |
| 1788 First Fleet at Port Jackson. Arthur Phillip, first Governor; Penal colony established in New South Wales; French ships in Botany Bay. |
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1789 French Revolution; Church in distress for ten years; Birth of Marcellin Champagnat. |
| 1800 Governor King and the naval Governors. No Catholic priests. |
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1800 Napoleon Bonaparte rules France. Concordat with Pope Pius VI. |
| 1801 Matthew Flinders circumnavigates Australia. |
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1801 Marcellin Champagnat receives his first Holy Communion. |
| 1804 Convict revolt at Castle Hill and Toongabbie. Father Dixon deported. |
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1803 Sisters and De la Salle Brothers re-established; a priest recruiter comes to the Champagnat house. |
| 1806 Governor Bligh |
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1805 Marcellin enters the Junior Seminary, aged fifteen and a half |
| 1810 Governor Macquarie. Expansion of the Colony. |
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1812 Napoleon’s Russian disaster. |
| 1815 Blue Mountains crossed. Catholics despised; they instruct and organise themselves - no clergy. |
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1814 Marcellin ordained sub-deacon. Napoleon abdicates, Louis XVIII regains the throne; Jesuits re- established. |
| 1817 Bank of New South Wales (Westpac) and Sydney Morning Herald founded. |
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1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo; The society of Mary is discussed in the seminary at Lyons.
1816 Marcellin ordained a priest in Lyons; he is appointed curate at Lavalla parish. |
| 1820 Father J.J. Therry arrives in Sydney. He starts a Catholic school at Parramatta - the first of many, and the .rst St Mary’s in Sydney. |
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1817 He founds the Marist Brothers. |
| 1820 Explorers and squatters expand across the continent. Foundation of South Australia, Western Australia, and Victoria. |
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1820 The Brothers open schools in small country places. |
| 1835 Bishop Bede Polding arrives in Sydney. The first Sisters come to Australia. Caroline Chisholm and free immigration. |
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1825 Father Champagnat builds the Hermitage. He gains the support of the Archbishop and clergy.
1836 The first Marist Missionaries leave France for Oceania. |
| 1840 End of convict transportation to New South Wales. |
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1839 Brother Francois is elected Superior-General.
1840 Marcellin Champagnat dies, aged 51. |
| 1851 Gold discovered. |
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1845 Marist Fathers established a base at Woolloomooloo for the Pacifc missions.
1852 Marist Brothers go to England. |
| 1864 Father Therry dies at Balmain. Denominational schools under attack. |
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1860 Brother Louis-Marie elected Superior-General. |
| 1866 Sir Henry Parkes and the Education Bill. Problems for the Church. Archbishop Polding decides to contact the teaching Congregations in Europe. |
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| 1872 The Brothers arrive in Sydney on 26 February after a brief stay in Melbourne. |
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1871 The first four Marist Brothers are sent to Sydney. They leave London on the Star of Peace. |
