1835 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1835 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke.
- Colonel George Arthur
- Captain James Stirling
Events
- 12 April – British ship George III, transporting male convicts from Woolwich to Hobart sinks in D'Entrecasteaux Channel with the loss of around 134 (128 convicts) of the 294 people on board.
- 13 May – British barque Neva, transporting female convicts from Cork, Ireland, is wrecked in the Bass Strait with the loss of 224 people and only 15 survivors.[1]
- 6 June – Port Phillip Bay for the establishment of Melbourne. The treaty was later declared void by the Governor of New South Wales, Richard Bourke.
- 6 August – Proclamation of Governor Bourke, a document which formally declared that the British Crown, relying on the doctrine of terra nullius, owned the whole of the continent of Australia.
- 13 September - John Bede Polding, the first Catholic bishop in Australia, arrives in Sydney.
- 10 October – The Proclamation of Governor Bourke is approved by the Colonial Office. Bourke's proclamation implemented the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.
- 29 December – Mary Gilbert gives birth to her son, James Port Phillip Gilbert, the first European child born in the Port Phillip settlement of Melbourne.
Births
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- 31 March – William Hodgkinson, Queensland politician, explorer and journalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1900)
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- 1 July – Sir Samuel McCaughey, New South Wales politician, pastoralist and philanthropist (born in Ireland) (d. 1919)
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- 2 November – Simpson Newland, South Australian politician, pastoralist and author (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
- 10 December – Sir Normand MacLaurin, New South Wales politician and physician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914)
Deaths
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- 11 August – George Clarke, bushranger (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1803), hanged
References
- OCLC 3778075.