1824 in Australia
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Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Year in Australia The following lists events that happened during 1824 in Australia.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George IV
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales- Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Colonel George Arthur
Events
- 5 March – The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Francis Forbes arrives in Sydney.
- 7 May – The Supreme Court of Tasmania, the first of all the State Supreme Courts, is established by Letters Patent.
- 17 May – The Supreme Court of New South Wales is created by Letters Patent.
- 25 August – The Legislative Council of New South Wales sits for the first time.
- 21 October – Joshua John Moore is the first person to take out a ticket-of-occupation for the land which later became the site of Canberra
- Name change from ' New Holland ' to ' Australia ', recommended by Matthew Flinders in 1804, receives official sanction by the United Kingdom.
Exploration and settlement
- 12 September – Lieutenant Henry Miller is formally appointed to establish a penal colony at Moreton Bay resulting in the founding of Brisbane on the Brisbane River (Miller had arrived in Moreton Bay a couple of months prior to the formal appointment)[1]
- 20 September – Gordon Bremer arrives in Port Essington, in the Northern Territory, but rejects the recommended site as a settlement due to its lack of fresh water.[2] Bremer claims the north coast of Australia from 129° to 135° longitude as British territory.[3] On 21 October Bremer's party establishes a settlement at Fort Dundas on Melville Island.[3]
- 28 September – John Oxley recommends a new settlement be founded at Brisbane after finding Moreton Bay unsuitable.[4][5]
- 16 December – Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell arrive in the area Aboriginal people call Corayo on a bay called Jillong.
Arts and literature
- 14 October – W. C. Wentworth and Robert Wardell begin publication of The Australian, the first independent newspaper in Australia.[2]
Births
- 23 March – John Norton Oxley, New South Wales politician (d. 1891)
- 2 May – William Randell, South Australian politician and pioneer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)
Deaths
- 19 July – Alexander Pearce, convict and criminal (born in Ireland) (b. 1790)
References
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