1810 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1810 in Australia.
Incumbents
- Monarch - George III
=Governors=
Events
- 1 January – Lachlan Macquarie sworn in as governor of New South Wales.{{cite book |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macquarie-lachlan-2419 |series=Australian Dictionary of Biography |title=Macquarie, Lachlan (1762–1824) |author=N. D. McLachlan |year=1966 |editor=Douglas Pike |volume=2|publisher=Melbourne University Press |accessdate=3 January 2022}}
- 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
References
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