1800 in Australia

The following list contains events that happened during 1800 in Australia.

Incumbents

26 April – William Balmain receives a land grant on the east side of Cockle Bay.
26 June – Major Joseph Foveaux is appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island.
16 July – Richard Johnson and Samuel Marsden open a church school in Kissing Point.
7 September – Joseph Holt is arrested on suspicion of raising an Irish insurrection.
28 September – Captain Philip King sworn in as governor, as the previous governor Captain John Hunter returns to England.
29 September – William Paterson is appointed lieutenant governor of the colony.
19 November – The first copper coins are circulated in New South Wales. To prevent their removal from the colony they were issued at double their face value, that is a coin valued at one penny in England was deemed to represent twopence in New South Wales.
3 December – The brig Lady Nelson and Lt. James Grant arrive in Southern Australia; Grant names Cape Northumberland, Cape Banks, Mount Schanck and Mount Gambier.
7 December – Grant names Cape Otway; the Lady Nelson becomes the first ship to cross Bass Strait from the west.
John Macarthur sends sample fleeces of merino wool to England from Australia to determine their quality.