1819 in Australia

Decades:	1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s;
See also:	Other events of 1819; ; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1819 in Australia.

Incumbents edit

Monarch - George III

Governors edit

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Events edit

John Thomas Bigge was appointed a special commissioner to examine the government of the Colony of New South Wales by Lord Bathurst. His brief was to determine how far the expanding colony of New South Wales could be "made adequate to the Objects of its original Institution", which were understood to be purely to be a penal colony. He was to come to Australia to investigate all aspects of the colonial government, then under the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, including finances, the church and the judiciary, and the convict system.

Births edit

8 April - James Tyson, pastoralist.^[1]
1 August - Explorer Augustus Gregory is born at Farnsfield, Nottingham, England.

Deaths edit

13 May - Margaret Catchpole, Adventuress and chronicler.

References edit

^ Zita Denholm (1976). Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 6: Tyson, James (1819–1898). Melbourne University Press. pp. 319–320. Retrieved 7 August 2017.

[1] Zita Denholm (1976). Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 6: Tyson, James (1819–1898). Melbourne University Press. pp. 319–320. Retrieved 7 August 2017.

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