1803 in Australia

none June 2020 January 2012 September 2026 1803 The following events happened in Australia in the year 1803. Incumbents Monarch - George III Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Captain Philip King 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.Proclamation, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 24 April 1803Franklin James James Franklin (philosopher) 2021 Sydney 1803: When Catholics were tolerated and Freemasons banned http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/sydney1803.pdf Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 107 2 135–155 27 December 2021 14 May - Illegal Masonic meeting held in Sydney and all participants arrested. 25 November - William James Hobart Thorne is born at Port Phillip. He is the first white child born in what will later become the state of Victoria.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9220538 The Late Robert Thorne The Mercury (Hobart) LIV 6,116 Tasmania, Australia 27 September 1889 2 November 2019 2 National Library of Australiahttps://www.theage.com.au/national/finding-settlements-first-son-20031116-gdwqyt.html The Age Finding Settlements First Son 16 November 2003 7 November 2019 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 Cumberland 1803 6 2 February – Charles Grimes discovered the Yarra River. 9 June – Investigator 1798 2 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 Calcutta 1795 6 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 1765) 16 September – Nicholas Baudin, French explorer (born 1754) 17 November – William Balmain, First Fleet surgeon (born 1762) References 1803 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia