The following lists events that happened during 1793 in Australia.

Leaders

*Monarch -

George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...

*Acting

Governor of New South Wales The governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the ...

– Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose * Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island –

Philip Gidley King Captain Philip Gidley King (23 April 1758 – 3 September 1808) was a British politician who was the third Governor of New South Wales. When the First Fleet arrived in January 1788, King was detailed to colonise Norfolk Island for defence an ...

*Commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps – Francis Grose

Events

* 16 January – ''Bellona'' arrives with Australia's first free settlers. * 22 January – The French d'Entrecasteaux expedition returns to

Recherche Bay Recherche Bay ( ) is an oceanic embayment, part of which is listed on the National Heritage Register, located on the extreme south-eastern corner of Tasmania, Australia. It was a landing place of the d’Entrecasteaux expedition to find missin ...

, Tasmania, to rewater and rest. * 12 February –

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is granted of land at Parramatta. * 16 February – John Macarthur is appointed by Grose as inspector of public works. * 18 February – A school opens in an

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church building in Sydney; Isabella Rosson is the first teacher (the first school had been established in 1789). * 28 February – d'Entrecasteaux expedition leaves Tasmania towards the Friendly Islands, continuing search for La Pérouse. * 2 May –

Mary Bryant Mary Bryant (1765 – after 1794) was a Cornish convict sent to Australia. She became one of the first successful escapees from the fledgling Australian penal colony. Early life Bryant was born Mary Broad (referred to as Mary Braund at the E ...

is pardoned in England. * May –

Bennelong Woollarawarre Bennelong ( 1764 – 3 January 1813), also spelt Baneelon, was a senior man of the Eora, an Aboriginal Australian people of the Port Jackson area, at the time of the first British settlement in Australia in 1788. Bennelong serv ...

and

Yemmerrawanne Yemmerrawanne ( - 18 May 1794) was a member of the Wangal people, part of the Eora nation in the Port Jackson area at the time of the first British settlement in Australia, in 1788. Along with another Aboriginal man, Bennelong, he accompanied ...

become the first

Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands ...

to visit Britain when they land at Falmouth, Cornwall, with

Arthur Phillip Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Greenwich Hospital School from June 1751 unti ...

. * 15 September – Captain William Paterson leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful. * 25 September – Sydney's first church opens. * Macquarie Lighthouse, the first in Australia, is erected in Sydney.

Births

*8 March – David Jones *1 June –

Augustus Earle Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was a British painter. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was able to operate quite indepen ...

References

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Years of the 18th century in Australia