1834 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1834 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:- Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling
Events
- 1 January – The Western Australian Police Force is formed.
- 14 January – The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escape
- 28 October – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 19 November – The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.
Births
- 5 January – William John Wills, explorer
- 9 January – Roger Vaughan, archbishop
- 14 January – Duncan Gillies, 14th Premier of Victoria
- 25 February – Louisa Atkinson, writer, botanist and illustrator
- 1 April – Arthur Orton, butcher
- 9 May – Peter Waite, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist
- 25 May – John Tebbutt, astronomer
- 30 May – Sir Frederick Sargood, Victorian politician
- 12 June – Christopher Augustine Reynolds, archbishop
- 21 July – James Charles Cox, physician and conchologist
- 29 September – Sir William Charles Windeyer, New South Wales politician and judge
- 12 October – Sir George Dibbs, 10th Premier of New South Wales
- Unknown, possibly March – Patrick Durack, pastoralist and pioneer
Deaths
- 11 April – John Macarthur, New South Wales politician, pastoralist and officer
- 7 May – Billy Blue, convict and boatman