1799 in Australia

See also: 1798 in Australia, other events of 1799, 1800 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Leaders

• Governor of New South Wales - John Hunter
• Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island - Philip Gidley King
• Inspector of Public Works - Richard Atkins

Events

• January 7 - Bass and Flinders complete their circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land.
• February 11 - The gaol in Sydney is burned by arsonists.
• March 3 - Hawkesbury River floods, killing one.
• March 12 - Isaac Nichols is accused of stealing stolen goods and sentenced to 14 years on Norfolk Island; his sentence is suspended by Governor Hunter on April 1
• July 8 - Matthew Flinders leaves Port Jackson to explore the East coast; he surveys Moreton Bay between the 15th and 31st and charts Hervey Bay on August 2. He returns to Sydney on the 20th of August.
• October 18 - Five settlers are found guilty of killing aborigines in the Hawkesbury, they are later pardoned.
• November 5 - Hunter is recalled and Philip Gidley King is named as his successor
• December 28 - The gaol in Parramatta is lost to arson.

Births

• August 25 - John Dunmore Lang
• October 2 - William Lonsdale
• October 15 - Archibald Mosman

Deaths

• January 26 - Thomas Muir

References

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986. 
• National Library of Australia. "The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 - 1830". http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/upsidedown/index.html.