1834 in Australia
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke[1]
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling
[edit] Events
- October 28—The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- November 19—The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.
[edit] Notes
- ^ King, Hazel (1966), "Sir Richard Bourke", in Pike, Douglas, Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, pp. 128–133
