* 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.

* 1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.

Perth was originally founded by Captain James Stirling in 1829 as the administrative centre of the Swan River Colony, and gained city status in 1856 ( currently vested in the smaller City of Perth ).

The British established a military outpost at King George Sound, near present-day Albany, in 1826, was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, Perth.

Perth was founded as the Swan River Colony in 1829 by British and Irish settlers, though the outpost languished, eventually requesting convict labour to augment its population.

* June 3, 1829 – The Swan River Colony ( later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle ) is founded in Western Australia.

The Government notice dated 27 July 1829 stated ... the first stone will be laid of a new town to be called ' Perth ', near the entrance to the estuary of the Swan River.

Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829.

Western Australia Day ( formerly Foundation Day ) is observed on the first Monday in June, although it was actually on 2 June 1829 that Captain James Stirling on the Parmelia arrived with Surveyor-General Roe and the first contingent of immigrants to set up the Swan River Colony.

The British colony in Western Australia was popularly known as the Swan River Colony from its foundation in 1829 until the beginning of the convict era in 1850.

Yagan arose as one of a number of leaders of the Noongar at the time when British settlers first arrived in the Swan River area in 1829 and Captain James Stirling declared that the local tribes were British subjects.

This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, with townsites at Fremantle and Perth-later to become the state's capital.

Below is a timeline of significant events from the 1616 landfall of Dirk Hartog until the eventual settlement of the Swan River Colony in 1829:

After the formal declaration in 1829 of the Swan River Colony ( some 410 km to the North West ) ( see below ), control of King George Sound was transferred from New South Wales to Western Australia and continued under a Government Resident.

The Swan River Colony was the name given to the British colony established on the Swan River by Captain James Stirling in 1829.

At its start in 1829, the Swan River Colony had its foundations as a " free settlement ".

Stirling administered the Swan River settlement from June 1829 until August 1832, when he left on an extended visit to England where he was knighted, and again from August 1834 until December 1838.

The Swan River Colony was a British settlement established in 1829 on the Swan River, in Western Australia.

Fremantle left the Swan River Colony on 25 August 1829, heading towards the British Army base of Trincomalee, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) where he was based the next couple of years.

The Parmelia arrived at the Swan River on 1 June 1829.

* In June 1829, he explored the Swan and Canning River ;

People starting with John Oxley in 1817, 1818 and 1821, followed by Charles Sturt in 1829 – 1830 attempted to follow the westward-flowing rivers to find an " inland sea ", but these were found to all flow into the Murray River and Darling River which turn south.

The first Welland Canal, which opened in 1829 between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, bypassing Niagara Falls and the Lachine Canal ( 1825 ), which allowed ships to skirt the nearly impassable rapids on the St. Lawrence River at Montreal were built for commerce.

Here, under the business acumen and efficient management of Frederick Rapp, they enjoyed such prosperity that by 1829 they dominated trade and the markets of Pittsburgh and down the Ohio River.

On July 3, 1829, Horace Blackman, accompanied by Alexander Laverty, a land surveyor, and an Indian guide forded the Grand River and made camp for the night at what is now Trail and N. Jackson Street.

After gaining experience as a teamster along the Santa Fe Trail and in Mexico, Carson signed on with a party of forty men, led by Ewing Young which in August, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

It was established by Hudson's Bay Company's Dr. John McLoughlin in 1829 near the confluence of the Clackamas River with the Willamette to take advantage of the power of Willamette Falls to run a lumber mill.

It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.

A natural drop in the Apple River made the location ideal as a dam and mill site, the first of which was built in 1829 by James Craig.

A natural drop in the Apple River made the location ideal as a dam and mill site, the first of which was built in 1829 by James Craig.

In 1829, the Village of Pulaski was established, consisting of a Post Office, mill, and a few houses on the north side of the St. Joseph River.

* Kit Carson, 1829 went into Apache country along the Gila River.

The town was formed in 1829, as the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal along the west bank of the Scioto River brought new growth to the area.

The first settlers arrived in Bolivar about the year 1829 and settled between Tubmill Creek and the Conemaugh River.

Besides traveling through many states of the United States to deliver anti-slavery lectures, Lundy visited Haiti twice, in 1825 and 1829 ; the Wilberforce Colony of freedmen and refugee slaves in Canada in 1830-1831 ; and Texas, in 1832 and again in 1833 ; all these visits being made, in part, to find a suitable place outside the United States to which emancipated slaves might be sent.

Yagan would have been about 35 years old in 1829 when British settlers landed in the area and established the Swan River Colony.

Peel arrived in Swan River Colony ( later expanded and renamed Western Australia ) aboard the Gilmore in December 1829 with 300 settlers, around six weeks later than the government had stipulated.

Captain James Stirling also investigated the area in 1827 just prior to settlement of the Swan River Colony in 1829.

The genesis of the police was the appointment of a sheriff by Captain Stirling in June 1829, as part of the proclamation of the Swan River Colony.

In 1829, the family emigrated to Western Australia on board the Lotus, arriving at the Swan River Colony only four months after its establishment.

Shortly after the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, part of the northern coastal area of the Peel region was settled under a program known as the Peel Settlement Scheme, organised by Thomas Peel.

Lieutenant Francis George Farewell ( 1784 – 1829 ), the founder of the Port Natal Colony in South Africa, was born at Holbrook House near Wincanton in the Blackmore Vale in 1784.

The species is known to have been caught since the settlement of Swan River Colony, in 1829, and expanded as the larger populations were discovered in remote locations of the state.