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Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
Events
- January 14 - Lieut-Col David Collins commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip.
- March 5 - George Howe publishes the first issue of the weekly Sydney Gazette and the New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspaper.
- December 27 - Convict William Buckley escapes from Sullivan Bay, Victoria. He lives with the Wautharong Aboriginal people for 32 years.
Exploration and Settlement
- February 2 - Surveyor general, Charles Grimes, discovered the Yarra River.
- June 9 - HMS Investigator 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.
- September 11 - John Bowen with a party of forty-eight found the first settlement in Van Diemen's Land near the Derwent River.
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