1803 in Australia
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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".
- 2 February – Charles Grimes discovered the Yarra River.
- 9 June – Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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 Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". 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 c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
- 16 September – Nicholas Baudin, French explorer (born 1754)
- 17 November – William Balmain, First Fleet surgeon (born 1762)
References
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