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Reverend Richard Johnson, an Anglican, was the chaplain assigned to the First Fleet
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the government refused to provide Johnson with a building for church services so he used his own funds to build the church.
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Celebrated in Sydney on 15 May 1803 by the convict priest Father James Dixon
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Angry at the harsh conditions under which they lived, more than 300 Irish convicts armed with spears and rifles rallied at Castle Hill crying 'death or liberty'.
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The English Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act, which gave Catholics the same political rights as Protestants and the right to hold public office.
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William Broughton, an Anglican priest, arrived in Sydney in 1829 and was consecrated as the first Anglican bishop in 1836
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The government passed the Chruch Act, which provided funding, in the form of subsidies, for buildings and salary for clergy, for all the main Christian denominations.
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State aid to church schools abolished and Catholics either had to send their children to government schools or fund their own schools.
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The Anglican Church established 'bush brotherhoods', an organisation of Anglican priets formed to provde pastoral care in sparsely settled areas.