1824 in Australia
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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
- Colonel George Arthur
Events
- 5 March – The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Francis Forbes arrives in Sydney.
- 7 May – The Letters Patent.
- 17 May – The Letters Patent.
- 25 August – The Legislative Council of New South Walessits 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 – 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 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
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References
- The Brisbane Courier. National Library of Australia. 28 April 1923. p. 19. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
- ^ a b "Melville Island – Culture and History". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ISSN 1038-054X.
- ISBN 0-207-15232-2.