1818 in Australia

List of events

* 1817
* 1816
* 1815
*   *

|  | 1818

Australia |

* 1819
* 1820
* 1821
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Decades:|

* 1790s
* 1800s
* 1810s
* 1820s
* 1830s

See also:|

* Other events of 1818
* Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1818 in Australia.

## Incumbents[edit]

* Monarch - George III

### Governors[edit]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

* Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
* Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land – Colonel William Sorell

## Events[edit]

* 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 6 Wodiwodi Aboriginals are killed by nine European settlers in the Minnamurra River massacre.
* The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is first opened.

## Births[edit]

* 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)

## References[edit]

* Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.

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Years in Australia (1788–present)

18th century|

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Timeline of Australian history

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1818 in Oceania

Sovereign states|

* Australia
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Kiribati
* Marshall Islands
* Nauru
* New Zealand
* Palau
* Papua New Guinea
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Tuvalu
* Vanuatu

Associated states
of New Zealand|

* Cook Islands
* Niue

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