1824 in Australia
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See also: 1823 in Australia, other events of 1824, 1825 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales- Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
[edit] Events
- March 5 - The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Francis Forbes arrives in Sydney.
- May 7 - The Supreme Court of Tasmania, the first of all the State Supreme Courts, is established by Letters Patent.
- May 17 - The Supreme Court of New South Wales is created by Letters Patent.
- August 5 - Convict and cannibal Alexander Pearce is hung for his crimes.
- August 25 - The Legislative Council of New South Wales sits for the first time.
- September 28 - John Oxley recommends a new settlement be founded at Brisbane after finding Moreton Bay unsuitable.
- October 14 - W. C. Wentworth and Robert Wardell begin publication of The Australian, the first independent newspaper in Australia.
- December 16 - Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrive in the area the Aborigines call Corayo on a bay called Jillong.
- In 1824 the name change from ' New Holland ' to ' Australia ', recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, received official sanction by the United Kingdom.
