Governors

• Governor of New South Wales
  Governors of New South Wales
  The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the eleven other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her...
  
  - Lachlan Macquarie
  Lachlan Macquarie
  Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB , was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony...
  
  
• Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land
  Governors of Tasmania
  The Governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as the Governor-General of Australia does at the national level.In accordance with the...
  
   - Major Thomas Davey
  Thomas Davey
  Thomas Davey was the second Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemens Land.-Early life:Few details are known of his early life, but Thomas Davey was serving in the army or navy in 1777, and went to Australia as a lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Marines with the First Fleet 10 years later...
  
  

Events

• 14 January - The road over the Blue Mountains is completed to the Macquarie River
  Macquarie River
  The Macquarie River is one of the main inland rivers in New South Wales. Its headwaters rise in the central highlands of New South Wales near the town of Oberon. The river travels generally northwest past the towns of Bathurst, Wellington, Dubbo, Narromine, and Warren to the Macquarie Marshes...
  
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• 7 April - Bathurst, New South Wales
  Bathurst, New South Wales
  -CBD and suburbs:Bathurst's CBD is located on William, George, Howick, Russell, and Durham Streets. The CBD is approximately 25 hectares and surrounds two city blocks. Within this block layout is banking, government services, shopping centres, retail shops, a park* and monuments...
  
   is founded following its discovery by George Evans
  George Evans (explorer)
  George William Evans was a surveyor and early explorer in the colony of New South Wales. Evans was born in Warwick, England, migrating to Australia in October 1802.-Early Career:...
  
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• 1 May - The Supreme Court opens and William Broughton
  William Broughton
  William Broughton may refer to:*William Broughton , first Anglican bishop of Australia*William Broughton , British naval officer who explored parts of the Pacific Ocean...
  
   and Alexander Riley
  Alexander Riley
  Alexander Riley was a merchant and one of the most important early pastoralists in Sydney and in New South Wales. Born in London to George Riley Snr, a well-educated bookseller, and Margaret Raby, he was the older brother of Edward Riley, also a merchant and pastoralist in Sydney...
  
   are appointed as its first judges.
• 25 May - George William Evans discovers the Lachlan River
  Lachlan River
  - Course :The river rises in the central highland of New South Wales, part of the Great Dividing Range, 13 km east of Gunning. Its major headwaters, the Carcoar River, the Belubula River and the Abercrombie River converge near the town of Cowra. Minor tributaries include the Morongla Creek...
  
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• 12 December - Captain James Kelly
  James Kelly (Australian explorer)
  James Kelly , Australian mariner, explorer and port official, was born on 24 December 1791 at Parramatta, New South Wales. He was probably the son of James Kelly, a cook in the convict transport Queen, and Catherine Devereaux, a convict transported for life from Dublin in the same ship.Kelly was...
  
   sets out on circumnavigation of Tasmania
  Tasmania
  Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...
  
  , during which important observations are made on the resources of the west coast.
• A single ship carries 60,000 sealskins to London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   from Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
   (a normal cargo contains at least 10,000 skins).

Births

• 27 May - Henry Parkes
  Henry Parkes
  Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As the earliest advocate of a Federal Council of the colonies of Australia, a precursor to the Federation of Australia, he was the most prominent of the Australian Founding Fathers.Parkes was described during his...
  
  
• 5 August - Edward John Eyre
  Edward John Eyre
  Edward John Eyre was an English land explorer of the Australian continent, colonial administrator, and a controversial Governor of Jamaica....
  
  
• 7 September - John McDouall Stuart
  John McDouall Stuart
  John McDouall Stuart was one of the most accomplished and famous of all Australia's inland explorers. Stuart led the first successful expedition to traverse the Australian mainland from south to north and return, and the first to do so from a starting point in South Australia, achieving this...
  
  

Deaths

• 9 January - Augustus Alt
  Augustus Alt
  Augustus Theodore Harman Alt was a British soldier , engineer and surveyor. His father Jost Heinrich was Hessian and entered the service of the Landgrave in Sweden as writer to Major-General Ernst Hartmann von Diemar...
  
  
• 10 November - Ellis Bent
  Ellis Bent
  Ellis Bent was the deputy judge advocate between 1810 and 1815 of the Australian colony of New South Wales, which was eventually to become an Australian state. The deputy judge advocate was the senior legal officer of the colony and functioned in many ways as a Chief Justice...
  
  
• 11 November - Maurice Margarot
  Maurice Margarot
  Maurice Margarot is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.-Early life:...