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1810 in Australia

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1810
in
Australia

Decades:
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1810 in Australia.

Incumbents

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Governors

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Governors of the Australian colonies:

Events

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  • 1 January – Lachlan Macquarie sworn in as governor of New South Wales.[1]
  • 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

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  • 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

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ N. D. McLachlan (1966). Douglas Pike (ed.). Macquarie, Lachlan (1762–1824). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 2. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.