1818 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1818 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III

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
• 3 March – Throsby, Hume and Meehan discover an 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
• 1 October – At least six Wodiwodi people (an Aboriginal people) are killed by nine European settlers in the Minnamurra River massacre.
• The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is first opened.

Births

• 22 March – John Ainsworth Horrocks, pastoralist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1846)
• 21 May – S. T. Gill, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1880)
• 5 August - Sir Thomas Elder, South Australian politician and pastoralist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1897)
• 13 August – Edward Wise, New South Wales Supreme Court judge (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1865)
• 5 September – Edmund Kennedy, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1848)
• Unknown – Eliza Winstanley, stage actress and writer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1882)

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