I made these timelines for the video. Please watch the video for commentary.

I am posting these timeline images in full resolution in case anyone wants to use them in their own research, copyright free.

Something else I didn’t mention in the video – but the appointment of Governor Darling was done in an interesting way – time-wise.

Notice that Governor Brisbane was recalled very shortly after repealing martial law at the end of 1824. Yet it took almost a year before he was actually replaced. The Crown waited for the treaty closure/settlement date on 1 March 1825 to pass before the letters patent for Darling’s commission were issued.

Governor Darling had two separate commissions. On the way from London he stopped at Van Diemen’s Land to .proclaim it a separate colony. Darling lands in Van Diemen’s Land AFTER Governor Brisbane has left Port Jackson. Darling then proceeds to Port Jackson to start his governing up to the 129E mark.

Looking at how this played out in timing with the treaty and with Furneaux’s secret discovery of the Bass Strait, I wonder if Van Diemen’s Land was ever properly part of New South Wales to begin with.