The following lists events that happened during 1815 in Australia.
Incumbents
*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 ...
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
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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 ...
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Lachlan Macquarie
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; gd, Lachann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie se ...
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Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land – Major
Thomas Davey
Events
* 14 January – The road over the
Blue Mountains is completed to the
Macquarie River.
* 7 April –
Bathurst, New South Wales is founded following its discovery by
George Evans George Evans may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* George "Honey Boy" Evans (1870–1915), American songwriter and entertainer
* George Evans (bandleader) (1915–1993), English jazz bandleader, arranger and tenor saxophonist
* George Evans (si ...
. It is Australia's first inland European settlement.
* 1 May – The Supreme Court opens and
William Broughton and
Alexander Riley are appointed as its first judges.
* 25 May –
George William Evans
George William Evans (5 January 1780 – 16 October 1852) was a surveyor and early explorer in the Colony of New South Wales. Evans was born in Warwick, England, migrating to Australia in October 1802.
Early career
In 1803, Evans was appoint ...
discovers the
Lachlan River.
* 12 December – Captain
James Kelly sets out on circumnavigation of
Tasmania
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, during which important observations are made on the resources of the west coast.
* A single ship carries 60,000 sealskins to
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
from Australia (a normal cargo contains at least 10,000 skins).
Births
*27 May –
Henry Parkes
*5 August –
Edward John Eyre
*7 September –
John McDouall Stuart
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 18155 June 1866), often referred to as simply "McDouall Stuart", was a Scottish explorer and one of the most accomplished of all Australia's inland explorers.
Stuart led the first successful expedition to tra ...
Deaths
*9 January –
Augustus Alt
Augustus Theodore Henry Alt (1731 – 9 January 1815) was a British soldier and Australia's first Surveyor-General.
Early life
Augustus Theodore Harman Alt was born to father Jost Heinrich (anglicised to Just Henry), a Hessian, and mother Jeanne ...
*10 November –
Ellis Bent
Ellis Bent (1783 – 10 November 1815) was the Deputy Judge Advocate between 1810 and 1815 of the Australian colony of New South Wales, which was eventually to become an Australian state. The Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales was the sen ...
*11 November –
Maurice Margarot
Maurice Margarot (1745–1815) is most notable for being one of the founding members of the London Corresponding Society, a radical society demanding parliamentary reform in the late eighteenth century.
Early life
Maurice Margarot was the son of ...
References
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
Years of the 19th century in Australia