1803 in Australia
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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed Template:Year in Australia The following lists events that happened during 1803 in Australia.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George III
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
Events
- 14 January – Lieut-Col David Collins is commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip.
- 5 March – George Howe publishes the first issue of the weekly The Sydney Gazette and The New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspaper.
- 19 April - Governor King proclaims toleration for Catholics and allows Fr James Dixon to say mass for Irish convicts.[1][2]
- 14 May - Illegal Masonic meeting held in Sydney and all participants arrested.[2]
- 25 November - William James Hobart Thorne is the first white child born in Victoria[3] when he is born at Port Phillip, in what was then part of New South Wales but later became Victoria.[4] He dies on 2 July 1872.
- 27 December – Convict William Buckley escapes from Sullivan Bay, Victoria. He lives with the Wautharong Aboriginal people for 32 years.
- 26 June – John Macarthur writes the Statement of Improvement and Progression of Fine Woolled Sheep in New South Wales.
Exploration and settlement
- January–February – Acting Lieutenant Charles Robbins and NSW Surveyor General Charles Grimes survey Port Phillip in Template:HMS
- 2 February – Charles Grimes discovered the Yarra River.
- 9 June – Template:HMS arrives in Port Jackson after circumnavigating Australia. On the voyage Matthew Flinders charted the coast and Robert Brown made an extensive collection of the flora of Australia.
- 11 September – John Bowen with a party of forty-eight found the first settlement in Van Diemen's Land near the Derwent River.
- 9 October – David Collins, on Template:HMS and Ocean, establishes the short-lived settlement at Sullivan Bay on Port Phillip
Births
- 1 January – Daniel Egan, politician (died 1870)
Deaths
- 26 August – Joseph Luker, police officer (born Template:Circa)
- 16 September – Nicholas Baudin, French explorer (born 1754)
- 17 November – William Balmain, First Fleet surgeon (born 1762)
References
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