1834 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1834 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke[1]
- Colonel George Arthur
- Captain James Stirling
Events
- 1 January – The Western Australian Police Forceis 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 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
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- 25 February – Louisa Atkinson, writer, botanist and illustrator (d. 1872)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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Notes
- ^ King, Hazel (1966), "Sir Richard Bourke", in Pike, Douglas (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 128–133