1834 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1834 in Australia.
Incumbents[]
Governors[]
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke[1]
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling
Events[]
- 1 January – The Western Australian Police Force is formed.
- 14 January – The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escape
- 28 October – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 19 November – The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.
Births[]
- Louisa Atkinson
- James Charles Cox
- George Dibbs
- Patrick Durack
- Duncan Gillies
- Arthur Orton
- Christopher Augustine Reynolds
- John Tebbutt
- Roger Vaughan
- Peter Waite
- William John Wills
- William Windeyer
Deaths[]
- Billy Blue
- John Macarthur
Notes[]
- ^ (1966), "Sir Richard Bourke", in Pike, Douglas (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 128–133
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