1810 in Australia

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
• Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – David Collins

Events

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

• 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

• 10 January – William Haines, 1st Premier of Victoria
• 14 August – Angus McMillan, explorer, pastoralist, and Victorian politician

Deaths

• 24 March – David Collins, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania
• Tedbury, Sydney indigenous leader