The following lists events that happened during 1822 in Australia.

Incumbents

*Monarch -

George IV George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten y ...

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies: * Governor of New South Wales- Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane *

Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the Monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III. The incumbent governor is Barbara Baker, who was appointed in June 2021. The official residence of the ...

- Colonel William Sorell

Events

* 1 January – The Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania was founded. * 24 August – The '' Victorine'' a schooner under command of Captain William Risk, left Sydney bound for

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It ...

. Carrying a crew of seven or eight the ship disappeared en route and was presumed lost.'' Hobart Town Gazette, and Van Diemen's Land Advertiser'', 29 March 1823, p1 * 5 July – The

Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales The Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales was founded on 5 July 1822, when a group of Sydney's leading citizens formed the Agricultural Society of NSW, and is "a not-for-profit organisation committed to supporting agricultural developmen ...

was founded. * October – The

Royal Hobart Show The Royal Hobart Show is an annual event held in October at the Royal Showgrounds in Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest of the Royal Shows held in cities and towns around the state by the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania. ...

is first held. * 24 December – Reverend Archibald Macarthur, Hobart's first Presbyterian minister arrived in Australia and held his first service on 12 January the following year. * John Bigge's first report on all aspects of the colonial government, then under the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, including finances, the church and the judiciary, and the convict system, was published.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1822 in Australia Australia Years of the 19th century in Australia