1821_in_Australia
1821 in Australia
List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1821 in Australia.
- Monarch - George IV
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales- Major-General Lachlan Macquarie until 1 December 1821, succeeded by Thomas Brisbane.
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel William Sorell
- 3 February – Sir Thomas Brisbane is commissioned as Governor to succeed Macquarie. He replaces Macquarie on 1 December of the same year.
- February – John Bigge finishes gathering evidence on all aspects of the colonial government, including finances, the church, the judiciary, and the convict system. He then sails back to England.
- 1 May – The Australian Magazine, Australia's first periodical, begins publication.
- 27 June – The Philosophical Society of Australasia is established. It would be renamed as the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1866 at the request of Queen Victoria.
- 29 October – Governor Macquarie lays foundation stone for first Catholic church in Australia, St Mary's.[1]
- The Female Factory, for women convicts, is separated from the Parramatta Gaol. Many women are selected as brides or for domestic service.[2]
- Parramatta Marist High School, Australia's first private school, founded by John Joseph Therry.[2]
- Wool export in Australia - 75,400 pounds.
- March – Port Macquarie, a penal settlement, was established for convicts that had committed secondary crimes in New South Wales.[2]
- Sternbeck, Michael (2022). "For a godly purpose: planning Saint Mary's Chapel in old Sydney-town" (PDF). Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society. 43: 1–24. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
- Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. pp. 7–8. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.