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1836 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

See also:
  
Other events of 1836 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
  • Governor of South Australia - Captain John Hindmarsh
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling
  • Events

  • 14 March - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, leaves Australia.
  • Exploration and settlement

  • 27 July - Reeves Point (later Kingscote), South Australia's first official European settlement is founded on Kangaroo Island.
  • 28 December - South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
  • Births

  • Thomas a Beckett
  • Joseph Bancroft
  • Robert Hamilton
  • Henry Harrison
  • Philip Sydney Jones
  • David Scott Mitchell
  • William Piguenit
  • Henry Chamberlain Russell
  • Samuel Way
  • Deaths

  • William Dawes
  • References

    1836 in Australia Wikipedia