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Charter of Justice for New South Wales

When
1788
Where
Colony of New South Wales
Episodes
1

The supplied passages do not document the signing of the Charter of Justice for New South Wales. They describe the founding of the colony in 1788, Arthur Phillip's arrival and proclamation, and later constitutional developments, but contain no statement about a 1787 charter, its date, or its signing in London.

Episodes

  1. January–February 1788 · Colony of New South WalesFounding of the Colony of New South Wales

    Supplied passages describe the 1788 founding of New South Wales, Phillip's arrival, and the formal proclamation, but not the 1787 Charter of Justice.

Background and detail

Background. The retrieved material establishes that the Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788, with Arthur Phillip arriving at Botany Bay in January 1788 aboard the First Fleet of 11 vessels carrying over a thousand settlers, including 736 convicts.

Charter of Justice. No supplied passage records the signing of a Charter of Justice, the date of 2 April 1787, or a signing location in London. The passages therefore cannot support the event's core claim, and the specific date and place remain unverified against the retrieved evidence.

Aftermath. The passages do confirm related context: Phillip formally proclaimed the colony on 7 February 1788 at Sydney, and as governor exercised nominal authority over all of Australia east of the 135th meridian east between latitudes 10°37'S and 43°39'S, along with adjacent Pacific islands.

People involved

  • Arthur Phillip · Governor of New South Wales who proclaimed the colony in 1788; not linked to the charter in the supplied passages

Sources

  1. New South Wales Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-16

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.