1802 in Australia

Last updated

Flag of Australia.svg
1802
in
Australia
Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1802 in Australia.

Contents

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Events

Exploration and settlement

Deaths

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Bass</span> British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia

George Bass was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Georges Hall</span> Suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Georges Hall, a suburb of local government area City of Canterbury-Bankstown, is located 24 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the state of New South Wales, Australia, and is part of the South-western Sydney region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pemulwuy</span> Aboriginal Australian political leader (born 1750)

Pemulwuy was a Bidjigal man of the Eora nation, born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales, Australia. One of the most famous Aboriginal resistance fighters in the colonial era, he is noted for his resistance to European colonisation which began with the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">New Holland (Australia)</span> Historical name for the island continent of Australia

New Holland is a historical European name for mainland Australia.

The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora, and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire. It further covers the European scientific exploration of the continent and the establishment of the other Australian colonies that make up the modern states of Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1795 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1798 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1801 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1803 in Australia.

The following lists events that happened during 1806 in Australia.

Henry Hacking was an Australian seaman and early explorer in New South Wales. He was responsible for shooting and killing the Aboriginal resistance fighter Pemulwuy in 1802.

The following lists events that happened during 1824 in Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matthew Flinders</span> English navigator and cartographer (1774–1814)

Captain Matthew Flinders was a British navigator and cartographer who led the first inshore circumnavigation of mainland Australia, then called New Holland. He is also credited as being the first person to utilise the name Australia to describe the entirety of that continent including Van Diemen's Land, a title he regarded as being "more agreeable to the ear" than previous names such as Terra Australis.

The following lists events that happened during 1799 in Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prospect Hill (New South Wales)</span>

Prospect Hill is a heritage-listed hill in Pemulwuy and Prospect in the greater western region of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Situated about 30 kilometres west of central Sydney, the hill is Sydney's largest body of igneous rock and is higher than the ridges of the Cumberland Plain around it, with its present-day highest point being 117 metres high, although before its summit was quarried away it rose to a height of 131 metres above sea level.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars</span> Australian frontier conflict

The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1794–1816) were a series of conflicts where British forces, including armed settlers and detachments of the British Army in Australia, fought against Indigenous clans inhabiting the Hawkesbury River region and the surrounding areas to the west of Sydney. The wars began in 1794, when the British started to construct farms along the river, some of which were established by soldiers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mount Hill (South Australia)</span>

Mount Hill is a prominent peak in the Australian state of South Australia on the eastern side of southern Eyre Peninsula. It is located within the locality of Butler.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">European land exploration of Australia</span>

European land exploration of Australia deals with the opening up of the interior of Australia to European settlement which occurred gradually throughout the colonial period, 1788–1900. A number of these explorers are very well known, such as Burke and Wills who are well known for their failed attempt to cross the interior of Australia, as well as Hamilton Hume and Charles Sturt.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">European exploration of Australia</span> European exploration of Australia

The European exploration of Australia first began in February 1606, when Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon landed in Cape York Peninsula and on October that year when Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands. Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators explored the western and southern coasts in the 17th century, and dubbed the continent New Holland.

References

  1. Australia's oldest murder mystery, The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 November 2003.
  2. John Ross (ed.) (1993) Chronicle of Australia, Melbourne, Chronicle Australasia, p.121. ISBN   1-872031-83-8