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1818 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

See also:
  
Other events of 1818 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

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

    • Events

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

    • Births

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

    • References

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