1833 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1833 in Australia.

← 1832 1831 1830 1833 in Australia → 1834 1835 1836
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1833 Timeline of Australian history

Events

• 5 January – The Perth Gazette and the West Australian Journal are first published by Charles Macfaull
• 23 January – Bathurst is gazetted as a town
• 1 May – Yagan and Midgegoroo are proclaimed as outlaws for killing two whites at Canning; Yagan is killed in July
• 23 October – The town of Mussel Brook (later Muswellbrook) is proclaimed

Births

• 9 March – William Henry Groom, Queensland politician and newspaper proprietor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1901)
• 29 May – George Gordon McCrae, poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1927)
• 10 August – Edward Devine, coach driver, hotelier and barman (d. 1908)
• 15 October – John Alexander MacPherson, 7th Premier of Victoria (d. 1894)
• 19 October – Adam Lindsay Gordon, South Australian politician and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1870)
• 18 November – Sir James Patterson, 17th Premier of Victoria (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1895)

Deaths

• 13 March – William Bradley, naval officer and cartographer (born in the United Kingdom and died in France) (b. 1758)
• 7 May – Watkin Tench, naval officer and author (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1758)
• 17 July – William Redfern, surgeon (born in Ireland and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774)
• 27 September – John Palmer, administrator (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1760)
• 11 November – James Grant, naval officer and navigator (born in the United Kingdom and died in France) (b. 1772)
• 17 November – Alexander Riley, merchant and pastoralist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1778)

References

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986-6.