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1837 in Australia

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

See also:
  
Other events of 1837 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 - Captain Sir John Franklin
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling
  • Events

  • 2 January - The Supreme Court of South Australia is established by Letters Patent, five days after the founding of the colony.
  • 6 March - The Theatre Royal in Hobart opened. It remains Australia's oldest working theatre.
  • 28 March - The Hoddle Grid of streets for the central business district is surveyed by Robert Hoddle.
  • 1 June - First inner-city land sale in Melbourne.
  • 10 June - The first whale is caught in Western Australia.
  • Births

  • John Atherton
  • Gracius Broinowski
  • Ben Hall
  • William Hann
  • Ernest Henry
  • James Venture Mulligan
  • Thomas Playford
  • Frederick Wolseley
  • Deaths

  • 10 February – Frederick Goulburn, first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales (b. 1788)
  • William Cox
  • Joseph Gellibrand
  • Francis Greenway
  • James Ruse
  • References

    1837 in Australia Wikipedia