1810 in Australia explained

The following lists events that happened during 1810 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies

• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
• Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – David Collins

Events

• 1 January – Lachlan Macquarie sworn in as governor of New South Wales.^[1]
• 8 January – The Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer, Australia's second newspaper and the first in Van Diemen's Land, begins publication.

Exploration and settlement

• 6 October – A town plan of Sydney was published, on which the streets were given new and permanent names, including Market, George, Park and Barrack Streets.

Births

• 10 January – William Haines, 1st Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1866)
• 14 August – Angus McMillan, explorer, pastoralist, and Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1865)

Deaths

• 24 March – David Collins, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1756)
• Tedbury, Sydney indigenous leader

Notes and References

1. Book: Macquarie, Lachlan (1762–1824) . Australian Dictionary of Biography . N. D. McLachlan . 1966 . Douglas Pike . 2. Melbourne University Press . 3 January 2022.