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1836 in Australia

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  • Other events of 1836
  • Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1836 in Australia.

Incumbents

  • Monarch - William IV

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
  • Governor of South Australia – Captain John Hindmarsh
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Colonel George Arthur
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain James Stirling

Events

  • 14 March – HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, leaves Australia.
  • 27 May – At least 7 Aboriginal are killed by Major Thomas Mitchell and his men in his third expedition as Surveyor General of New South Wales in the Mount Dispersion massacre.
  • 29 July – Church Act enacted

Exploration and settlement

  • 27 July – Reeves Point (later Kingscote), South Australia's first official European settlement is founded on Kangaroo Island.
  • 28 December – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

Science and technology

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Arts and literature

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Sport

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Births

  • Thomas a Beckett
  • Joseph Bancroft
  • Robert Hamilton
  • Henry Harrison
  • Philip Sydney Jones
  • David Scott Mitchell
  • William Piguenit
  • Henry Chamberlain Russell
  • Samuel Way

Deaths

  • William Dawes

References

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