1838 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1838 in Australia.

1838
in
Australia

Decades:
  • 1810s
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
See also:

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Events

  • 1 January - John Pascoe Fawkner founded The Melbourne Advertiser, the Port Phillip district's first newspaper.[6]
  • 26 January -
  • 31 January - Lord Glenelg, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies sent Governor Gipps the report of the Select committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines (British Settlements). The report recommended that Protectors of Aborigines should be engaged. They would be required to learn the Aboriginal language and their duties would be to watch over the rights of Aborigines, guard against encroachment on their property and to protect them from acts of cruelty, oppression and injustice. The Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate was established with George Augustus Robinson as chief protector and four full-time protectors.
  • 23 April 1838 - The arrival of the first German vinedressers in Australia. The barque Kinnear arrived at Sydney carrying six German vinedresser families who were one of the first group of foreign immigrants brought to Australia under the newly formed Bounty Scheme. They were Caspar Flick, Georg Gerhard, Johann Justus, Friedrich Seckold, Johann Stein, and Johann Wenz. They brought with them the first Riesling grape cuttings to Australia and worked in the vineyards belonging to John Macarthur's son William Macarthur at Camden Park. Major Edward Macarthur recruited these six families from the Rheingau region of Hesse in October 1837.
  • 24 May - David Jones opens its first store on the corner of George and Barrack Streets in Sydney
  • 10–28 June - 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.
  • 16 November - The ship Bengalee arrived at Port Misery (South Australia) with a group of Prussian immigrants, the first in a large wave of 19th-century German immigration to Australia.
  • 1 December - The first annual Hobart Regatta is held.
  • Undated - Five nuns from the Religious Sisters of Charity in Ireland became the first women of religion to set foot on Australian soil.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths

Aboriginals

References

  1. McCulloch, Samuel Clyde. "Gipps, Sir George (1791–1847)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  2. "Hindmarsh, Sir John (1785–1860)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  3. "Colonel George Gawler". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  4. "Sir John Franklin | Biography, Death, Erebus, & Terror". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  5. Crowley, F. K. "Stirling, Sir James (1791–1865)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  6. "Timeline of the Fawkner Press". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  7. Wahlquist, Calla (23 January 2018). "Massacres and protest: Australia Day's undeniable history". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  8. "Bunn, Anna Maria". dictionaryofsydney.org. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
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