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1826 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

See also:
  
Other events of 1826 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales - Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling
  • Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur

    • Events

  • 16 March - The Australian Subscription Library, the forerunner of the State Library of New South Wales, is founded; it opens, 1 December 1827.
  • 25 December - Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of the continent, establishing a settlement near Albany.
  • Convict Hospital built in Brisbane, it is replaced as Brisbane General Hospital in 1867.

    • Science and technology

  • 7 April – Australia's first street lamp erected in Macquarie Place, Sydney – it burned whale oil.

    • Births

  • 24 June - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia.
  • 7 July - Charles Todd responsible for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.

    • Deaths

  • 4 May - Bushranger Matthew Brady is hanged.

    • References

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