1834 in Australia

none February 2020 November 2011 1834 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1834 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1834 in Australia. Incumbents Monarch - William IV Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke King Hazel Hazel King Sir Richard Bourke Pike Douglas Australian Dictionary of Biography 1 128–133 Melbourne University Press Melbourne 1966 https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bourke-sir-richard-1806 Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling Events 1 January – The Western Australian Police Force is formed. 14 January – The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escape 28 October – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists. 19 November – The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty. Births 5 January – William John Wills, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1861) 9 January – Roger Vaughan, archbishop (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1883) 14 January – Duncan Gillies, 14th Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1903) 25 February – Louisa Atkinson, writer, botanist and illustrator (d. 1872) 1 April – Arthur Orton, butcher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1898) 9 May – Peter Waite, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922) 25 May – John Tebbutt, astronomer (d. 1916) 30 May – Sir Frederick Sargood, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1903) 12 June – Christopher Augustine Reynolds, archbishop (born in Ireland) (d. 1893) 21 July – James Charles Cox, physician and conchologist (d. 1912) 29 September – Sir William Charles Windeyer, New South Wales politician and judge (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1897) 12 October – Sir George Dibbs, 10th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1904) Unknown, possibly March – Patrick Durack, pastoralist and pioneer (born in Ireland) (d. 1898) Deaths 11 April – John Macarthur, New South Wales politician, pastoralist and officer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767) 7 May – Billy Blue, convict and boatman (born in the United States) (b. 1767) Notes 1834 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia