1810 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1810 in Australia.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch - George III
Governors
[edit]Governors of the Australian colonies:
Events
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 10 January – William Haines, 1st Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1866)
- 14 August – Angus McMillan, explorer, pastoralist, and Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1865)
Deaths
[edit]- 24 March – David Collins, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1756)
- Tedbury, Sydney indigenous leader
References
[edit]- ^ N. D. McLachlan (1966). Douglas Pike (ed.). Macquarie, Lachlan (1762–1824). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.