1798 in Australia

Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Australia The following lists events that happened during 1798 in Australia.

Leaders

• Monarch – George III
• Governor of New South Wales – John Hunter
• Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
• Inspector of Public Works – Richard Atkins

Events

• 2 January – George Bass sights Wilsons Promontory.
• 26 January – The koala and lyrebird are observed by John Price on an expedition led by John Wilson.
• 12 February – Matthew Flinders explores the Furneaux Islands.
• 25 February – John Hunter names Bass Strait in honour of George Bass.
• 14 May – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society .
• 1 October – Sydney's first church St Philip's is destroyed by fire.
• 7 October – George Bass and Matthew Flinders leave Sydney to explore Van Diemen's Land on the Norfolk.
• 7 October – St Phillip's Church founded in Sydney, completed in 1809.
• 8 November – Nauru discovered by John Fearn.
• 9 December – Bass and Flinders confirm the existence of the Bass Strait.
• 22 December – Norfolk enters the Derwent River,
• 25 December – George Bass climbs Mount Wellington.