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1830 in Australia

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See also:
  
Other events of 1830Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales - Ralph Darling
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling

    • Events

  • 20 September - The Port Arthur penal settlement was established.
  • 23 September - The Bathurst Rebellion begins outside of Bathurst, New South Wales, following the escape of a group of convicts known as the 'Ribbon Gang' under the leadership of convict-servant Ralph Entwistle. Ten of the rebels are later captured and publicly hung after being tried and found guilty of murder.
  • 7 October - The 'Black Line' campaign of the Black War begins in an attempt to capture all Tasmanian Aborigines. The campaign lasts 7 weeks and only succeeds in bringing two Aborigines to the authorities.
  • Wool export in Australia - 2 million pounds.

    • Exploration and settlement

  • February - Charles Sturt and party discover the mouth of the Murray River.

    • Births

  • Morton Allport
  • Freeman Cobb
  • Henry Dangar
  • Robert Dunne
  • Robert D. Fitzgerald
  • Mark Foy
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Alfred William Howitt
  • Henry Kingsley
  • Patrick Francis Moran
  • John Moresby
  • Dan Morgan
  • Charles Henry Pearson
  • Louis Lawrence Smith
  • Caroline Chisolm

    • Deaths

  • Bungaree

    • References

    1830 in Australia Wikipedia
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