1826 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1826 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George IV

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling
• Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur

Events

• 16 March - The Australian Subscription Library, the forerunner of the State Library of New South Wales, is founded; it opens, 1 December 1827.
• 25 December - Major Edmund Lockyer arrives at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of the continent, establishing a settlement near Albany.
• Convict Hospital built in Brisbane, it is replaced as Brisbane General Hospital in 1867.

Science and technology

• 7 April – Australia's first street lamp erected in Macquarie Place, Sydney – it burned whale oil.

Births

• 10 April – Henry Oxley, New South Wales MP
• 24 June – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia.
• 7 July – Charles Todd responsible for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.

Deaths

• 4 May - Bushranger Matthew Brady is hanged.

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