1804 in Australia

none September 2026 January 2012 1804 The following lists events that happened during 1804 in Australia. Incumbents Monarch – George III Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Captain Philip King Lieutenant-Governor of Southern Van Diemen's Land – David Collins Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Van Diemen's Land – William Paterson Events 4 March – The Castle Hill convict rebellion, also known as the Battle of Vinegar Hill, takes place: 200 convicts, mostly Irish, rebel. Fifty-one convicts are punished, and nine hanged.Whitaker, Anne-Maree: Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804, Dictionary of Sydney. 3 May – An Aboriginal food hunting party is attacked by settlers and soldiers at Risdon Cove. Eyewitness estimates of the death toll from the massacre vary from three or four to fifty.Darby, Andrew: Debate exposes 200-year-old massacre, The Age, 4 May 2004. 16 September – A government-owned brewery is opened at Parramatta as a means of controlling the consumption of spirits.Late in the eighteenth century, Australian Beers. 4 November – In a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed "Australia" or "Terra Australis" (from the Latin "australis" meaning "of the south").Flinders' letter to Sir Joseph Banks 1804, National Library of Australia, 4 November 1804. Exploration and settlement 15 February – Lieutenant-Governor David Collins lands at Risdon Cove in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Unhappy with the area as a site for a settlement, Collins sends his surveyor, George Prideaux Harris, and harbour master William Collins in search of an alternative site. Harris and Collins recommend Sullivan's Cove.Newman, Terry: Bowen Refuses to Bow Out https://web.archive.org/web/20110305175222/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/php/Bowen.htm 5 March 2011 , Parliamentary History Project (Parliament of Tasmania), December 2003. 24 March – The settlement at the Hunter River, also known as the Coal River, is officially named Newcastle.Settlement at Coal Harbour and Hunter’s River to be named Newcastle, Limits of Settlement and Governorship, &c., University of Newcastle, 24 September 1804. 8 May – Lieutenant-Governor Collins establishes the settlement at Sullivan's Cove on the River Derwent.1803–1850s, British outpost, Tasmanian Year Book 2005, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 21 November 2006. 15 June – The name "Hobart Town", after the Colonial Secretary Lord Hobart, is adopted as the name for the new colony at Sullivan's Cove. 5 November – Lieutenant-Colonel William Paterson arrives at Outer Cove, leading the Buffalo, the Lady Nelson and two schooners, under instructions from London to form a settlement in the north of Van Diemen's Land. Births 5 October – Robert Campbell, politician (died 1859) Deaths 21 March – James Bloodsworth (born 1759), convict and bricklayer 27 December – George Barrington (born 1755), convict and police officer References 1804 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia