1836 in Australia explained

The following lists events that happened during 1836 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - William IV

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies

• Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
• Governor of South Australia – Captain John Hindmarsh
• Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Colonel George Arthur
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain James Stirling

Events

• 14 March – HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, leaves Australia.
• 27 May – At least 7 Aboriginal are killed by Major Thomas Mitchell and his men in his third expedition as Surveyor General of New South Wales in the Mount Dispersion massacre.
• 29 July – Church Act enacted

Exploration and settlement

• 27 July – Reeves Point (later Kingscote), South Australia's first official European settlement is founded on Kangaroo Island.
• 28 December – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

Births

• Thomas a Beckett
• Joseph Bancroft
• Robert Hamilton
• Henry Harrison
• Philip Sydney Jones
• David Scott Mitchell
• William Piguenit
• Henry Chamberlain Russell
• Samuel Way

Deaths

• William Dawes