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| | 1840 |
 | | Capt John Clements Wickham, RN, HMS Beagle, recorded: I named this bay to commemorate the season of the Christian year, at which we visited it Good Friday Bay, WA. |
 | | Capt John Knatchbull, RN, commander of the sloop HMS Doterel during the War of 1812, was hanged at the Woolloomoolo Gaol, Sydney, for the brutal murder of a widow. |
 | | The Pacific Squadron of the United States Navy commanded by Commodore John Drake Sloat, USN, frigates Savannah, Constitution and Congress, slops Portsmouth, Levant, Warren and Cyane and the storeships Erie and Relief was deployed to wrest California from the Spaniards. |
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