1799 in Australia

1799 in Australia

1796 • 1797 • 1798 • 1799 (1799) • 1800 • 1801 • 1802

Other events of 1799 • Timeline of Australian history

Leaders

• Governor of New South Wales - John Hunter
• Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island - Philip Gidley King
• Inspector of Public Works - Richard Atkins

Events

• 7 January - Bass and Flinders complete their circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land in sloop Norfolk.
• 11 February - The gaol in Sydney is burned by arsonists.
• 3 March - Hawkesbury River floods, killing one.
• 12 March - Isaac Nichols is accused of stealing stolen goods and sentenced to 14 years on Norfolk Island; his sentence is suspended by Governor Hunter on 1 April
• 8 July - Matthew Flinders leaves Port Jackson to explore the East coast in sloop Norfolk; he surveys Moreton Bay between the 15th and 31st and charts Hervey Bay on 2 August. He returns to Sydney on 20 August.
• 18 October - Five settlers are found guilty of killing aborigines in the Hawkesbury, they are later pardoned.
• 5 November - Hunter is recalled and Philip Gidley King is named as his successor
• 28 December - The gaol in Parramatta is lost to arson.

Births

• 25 August - John Dunmore Lang
• 2 October - William Lonsdale
• 15 October - Archibald Mosman

Deaths

• 26 January - Thomas Muir

References

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986. 
• National Library of Australia. "The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 - 1830". http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/upsidedown/index.html.