1816 in Australia

Incumbents

• Monarch - George III

  Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Lachlan Macquarie
• Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land – Major Thomas Davey

  Events

• 30 March – Francis Greenway is appointed as the government's Civil Architect.
• 1 June – Andrew Bent starts regular publication of the Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter.
• 30 November – Export of horses to India for use by the Indian Army begins with an advertisement in the Sydney Gazette.
• 2 December – John Oxley allots the first land grants in the Illawarra district.

  Births

• 12 April – Charles Gavan Duffy
• 7 October – Edward Hargraves
• 15 October – John Robertson
• 23 December – Thomas Sutcliffe Mort