1839 in Australia

Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	Other events of 1839; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1839 in Australia.

Incumbents

3 January - John Hutt becomes Governor of Western Australia
15 January - The first US consul, J. H. Williams, takes residence in Sydney
6 February - The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser are published for the first time by John Pascoe Fawkner
16 February - Kiama is proclaimed a town
19 March - Settlement begins at Port Lincoln
3 April - William Light is replaced by Charles Sturt as Surveyor-General of South Australia
13 April - Albury is proclaimed a village
24 April - Braidwood is proclaimed a town
1 May - Edward John Eyre explores the area north of Adelaide until 29 June, during the expedition he discovers Lake Torrens
June - Up to 40 Aboriginals are killed in the Campaspe Plains massacre, which was a reprisal raid against Aboriginal resistance to the invasion and occupation of the Dja Dja Wurrung and Taungurung lands.
20 June - A settlement is founded at Victor Harbor
27 July - The Adelaide River is discovered
9 September - Port Darwin is named by John Lort Stokes on HMS Beagle
Undated (mid 1939) - 35 to 40 Aboriginals of the Tarnbeere Gundidj clan of the Djargurd Wurrung are killed in the Murdering Gully massacre.
Undated - An unknown number of Aboriginals are killed in the Blood Hole massacre

14 March – George Adams, publican and lottery promoter (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1904)
18 April – Henry Kendall, author and bush poet (d. 1882)
30 April – Sir Francis Suttor, New South Wales politician and pastoralist (d. 1915)
10 May – Thomas Joseph Carr, Catholic archbishop (born in Ireland) (d. 1917)
29 May – Ned Gregory, cricketer (d. 1899)
19 June – Howard Willoughby, journalist and war correspondent (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908)
1 July – William George Lawes, minister, missionary and public lecturer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1907)
2 September – Elias Solomon, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)
9 December – Norman Selfe, civil engineer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)
19 December – Charles Dempster, Western Australian politician and explorer (d. 1907)
Unknown – George Rignold, actor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1912)

6 May – John Batman, explorer, grazier and entrepreneur (b. 1801)^[2]
27 June – Allan Cunningham (botanist), botanist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1791)
24 July – Sir Richard Spencer, naval officer and settler (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1779)
6 October – William Light, military officer and surveyor (born in Malaysia) (b. 1786)
9 October – James Oatley, watchmaker and convict (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769)

^ McCulloch, Samuel Clyde. "Gipps, Sir George (1791–1847)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
^ Brown, P. L. "Batman, John (1801–1839)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 5 April 2018.

Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-9866.