1833 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1833 in Australia.
Events
- 5 January â The Perth Gazette and the West Australian Journal are first published by Charles Macfaull
- 23 January â Bathurst is gazetted as a town
- 1 May â Yagan and Midgegoroo are proclaimed as outlaws for killing two whites at Canning; Yagan is killed in July
- 23 October â The town of Mussel Brook (later Muswellbrook) is proclaimed
Births
- 9 March â William Henry Groom, Queensland politician and newspaper proprietor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1901)
- 29 May â George Gordon McCrae, poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1927)
- 10 August â Edward Devine, coach driver, hotelier and barman (d. 1908)
- 15 October â John Alexander MacPherson, 7th Premier of Victoria (d. 1894)
- 19 October â Adam Lindsay Gordon, South Australian politician and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1870)
- 18 November â Sir James Patterson, 17th Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1895)
Deaths
- 13 March â William Bradley, naval officer and cartographer (born in the United Kingdom and died in France) (b. 1758)
- 7 May â Watkin Tench, naval officer and author (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1758)
- 17 July â William Redfern, surgeon (born in Ireland and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774)
- 27 September â John Palmer, administrator (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1760)
- 11 November â James Grant, naval officer and navigator (born in the United Kingdom and died in France) (b. 1772)
- 17 November â Alexander Riley, merchant and pastoralist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1778)
References
- Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986-6.