1841 - 1900
| 1843 | Christian Brothers arrive in Sydney (leave in 1847); 3 Italian and one Swiss priest begin mission to Aborigines on Stradbroke Is. |
| 1844 | Robert Wilson as first Cath. bishop of Tasmania; Henry Gregory as Vicar-General in NSW. |
| 1845 | Bishop Brady as bishop of Perth. |
| 1846 | Dom Salvado begins New Norcia. |
| 1847 | James Goold as first bishop of Melbourne. |
| 1850 | Freeman's Journal begun by McEncroe
Convicts sent to West Australia. |
| 1851 | Victoria proclaimed a separate colony Gold rushes begin. |
| 1853 | transportation ends in Van Diemens Land (renamed Tasmania). |
| 1859 | Queensland proclaimed a colony; Rome decided to send Irish bishops to Australia; James Quinn as Bishop of Brisbane; St Mary's Cathedral burns down. |
| 1860 | Bishop Geoghegan begins Cath. schools in Sth Aust. |
| 1861 | James Quinn & Mercy Sisters in Qld. |
| 1865 | St Mary's Cathedral burns down again. |
| 1866 | Mary MacKillop and Julian Tenison Wood begin the Sisters of St Joseph. |
| 1868 | Christian Brothers return to Melbourne. |
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Blessed Mary MacKillop, 1870's
| 1872 | State aid to Church schools abolished in Victoria. |
| 1873 | Roger Vaughan appointed coadjutor bishop to Sydney. |
| 1875 | State Aid to schools withdrawn in Qld. |
| 1877 | Death of Polding; Roger Vaughan becomes Archbishop of Sydney. |
| 1879 | NSW bishops' Joint Pastoral on education. |
| 1880 | Public Instruction Act (NSW). |
| 1884 | Cardinal Moran arrives. |
| 1885 | First Plenary Council of
Australian bishops. |
| 1886 | Thomas Carr as Archbishop of Melbourne. |
| 1887 | Rome declares central government for Sisters of St Joseph. |
| 1889 | St Patrick's College Manly opened. |
| 1891 | First Melkite priest to Australia. |
| 1899 | Boer War; priests as chaplains. |
| 1900 | Bishop Rosendo Salvado
osb d. 29.1. |
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