1810 in Australia

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1810
in
Australia

Decades:
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1810 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch - George III

Governors[]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South WalesLachlan Macquarie
  • Lieutenant-Governor of TasmaniaDavid Collins

Events[]

  • 1 January – Lachlan Macquarie sworn in as governor of New South Wales.[1]
  • 8 January – The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen's Land, begins publication.

Exploration and settlement[]

  • 6 October – A town plan of Sydney was published, on which the streets were given new and permanent names, including Market, George, Park and Barrack Streets.


Births[]

  • 10 JanuaryWilliam Haines, 1st Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1866)
  • 14 AugustAngus McMillan, explorer, pastoralist, and Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1865)

Deaths[]

  • 24 MarchDavid Collins, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1756)

References[]

  1. ^ N. D. McLachlan (1966). Douglas Pike (ed.). Macquarie, Lachlan (1762–1824). Australian Dictionary of Biography. 2. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
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