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

• 30 March - Francis Greenway
  Francis Greenway
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   is appointed as the government's Civil Architect.
• 1 June - Andrew Bent
  Andrew Bent
  Andrew Bent was a printer, publisher and newspaper proprietor, active in Australia.-Early life:Bent was born in London, England, and was apprenticed at an early age to a printer...
  
   starts regular publication of the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter.
• 30 November - Export of horses to India for use by the Indian Army begins with an advertisement in the Sydney Gazette.
• 2 December - John Oxley
  John Oxley
  John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley was an explorer and surveyor of Australia in the early period of English colonisation.October 1802 he was engaged in coastal survey work including an expedition to Western Port in 1804-05...
  
   allots the first land grants in the Illawarra
  Illawarra
  Illawarra is a region in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is a coastal region situated immediately south of Sydney and north of the Shoalhaven or South Coast region. It encompasses the cities of Wollongong, Shellharbour, Shoalhaven and the town of Kiama. The central region contains Lake...
  
   district.

Births

• 12 April - Charles Gavan Duffy
  Charles Gavan Duffy
  Additional Reading*, Allen & Unwin, 1973.*John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.*Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922....
  
  
• 7 October - Edward Hargraves
  Edward Hargraves
  Edward Hammond Hargraves was a gold prospector who claimed to have found gold in Australia in 1851, starting the Australian gold rush....
  
  
• 15 October - John Robertson
• 23 December - Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
  Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
  Thomas Sutcliffe Mort was an Australian industrialist responsible for improving refrigeration of meat. He was renowned for speculation in the local pastoral industry as well as industrial activities such as his Ice-Works in Sydney's Darling Harbour and dry dock and engineering works at...