1818 in Australia

See also: 1817 in Australia, other events of 1818, 1819 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
• Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land – Colonel William Sorell

Events

• 8 January – Governor Macquarie accuses Samuel Marsden of conspiracy against him
• 26 January – First Australia Day celebrations held
• 3 March – Throsby, Hume and Meehan discover and overland route to Jervis Bay
• 19 April – Phillip Parker King discovers Port Essington
• 28 May – John Oxley leaves Bathurst to explore along the Macquarie River

Exploration and settlement

Births

• 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, one of the first settlers of the Clare Valley, is born near Preston, Lancashire
• 21 May – S. T. Gill
• 5 September – Edmund Kennedy
• Date unknown – Eliza Winstanley, Thomas Elder

Deaths

References

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986. 

See also

• 1818
• 1810s