1834 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1834 in Australia.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January â The Western Australian Police Force is formed.
- 14 January â The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escape
- 28 October â The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 19 November â The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.
Births
- 5 January â William John Wills, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1861)
- 9 January â Roger Vaughan, archbishop (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1883)
- 14 January â Duncan Gillies, 14th Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1903)
- 25 February â Louisa Atkinson, writer, botanist and illustrator (d. 1872)
- 1 April â Arthur Orton, butcher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1898)
- 9 May â Peter Waite, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
- 25 May â John Tebbutt, astronomer (d. 1916)
- 30 May â Sir Frederick Sargood, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1903)
- 12 June â Christopher Augustine Reynolds, archbishop (born in Ireland) (d. 1893)
- 21 July â James Charles Cox, physician and conchologist (d. 1912)
- 29 September â Sir William Charles Windeyer, New South Wales politician and judge (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1897)
- 12 October â Sir George Dibbs, 10th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1904)
- Unknown, possibly March â Patrick Durack, pastoralist and pioneer (born in Ireland) (d. 1898)
Deaths
- 11 April â John Macarthur, New South Wales politician, pastoralist and officer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767)
- 7 May â Billy Blue, convict and boatman (born in the United States) (b. 1767)