1818 in Australia

See also: 1817 in Australia, other events of 1818, 1819 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Governors 2 Events 3 Exploration and Settlement 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 References 7 See also

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
• Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land – Colonel William Sorell

Events

• January 8 – Governor Macquarie accuses Samuel Marsden of conspiracy against him
• January 26 – First Australia Day celebrations held
• March 3 – Throsby, Hume and Meehan discover and overland route to Jervis Bay
• April 19 – Phillip Parker King discovers Port Essington
• May 28 – John Oxley leaves Bathurst to explore along the Macquarie River

Exploration and Settlement

Births

• March 22 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, one of the first settlers of the Clare Valley, is born near Preston, Lancashire
• May 21 – S. T. Gill
• September 5 – Edmund Kennedy
• Date unknown – Eliza Winstanley, Thomas Elder

Deaths

References

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986. 

See also

• 1818
• 1810s

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