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Philip Gidley King

British Colonial governor (1758-1808)

21 dated entries naming Philip Gidley King, drawn from 18 separate years between 1788 CE and 1807 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1788Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 17886 March – Lieutenant Philip Gidley King establishes a settlement on Norfolk Island with a party of fifteen convicts and seven men.source
  • 1789Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1790Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1790March – Following the loss of the Sirius, Lieutenant-Governor King returns to Britain to report on the difficulties of the settlements in New South Wales. Marine commander Robert Ross takes control of Norfolk Island in his absence, and under his harsh rule the condition on the island deteriorates.source
  • 1791Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1791March – Philip Gidley King returns to Norfolk Island from Britain and resumes command from Robert Ross.source
  • 1792Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1793Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1794Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1795Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1796Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1797Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1798Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource
  • 1799Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley Kingsource

19th century

  • 180114 September – John Macarthur takes part in a duel with his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel William Paterson. Paterson is severely wounded in the shoulder, and Macarthur is arrested the next day. Governor King offers to release him on Norfolk Island but Macarthur refuses and is sent to England to be court martialed.source
  • 180221 May – Governor King questions the Captains of three ships, the Britannia, Speedy and Venus i about whaling off the New Zealand coast.source
  • 180330 January – George Bass asks Governor King of New South Wales for a fishing monopoly from a line bisecting New Zealand from Dusky Sound to Otago Harbour extending south to include the subantarctic islands. It is not granted but shows the sealers' area of interest at this time.source
  • 1805May – After complaints about some of the treatment of Pacific Islanders and New Zealanders (Māori) crewing on whaling ships, Governor King issues a 'Government and General Order', published on the front page of the Sydney Gazette which gives them some of the civil rights of British subjects.source
  • 180612 August – Governor King boards HMS Buffalo for his return to England, and Bligh's commission is formally read.source
  • 180710 February – Former Governor Philip Gidley King leaves New South Wales.source

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