1830 in Australia

Incumbents

• Monarch - George IV until 26 June 1830 then William IV

  Governors

• Governor of New South Wales - Ralph Darling
• Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
• Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling

  Events

• 20 September - The Port Arthur penal settlement was established.
• 23 September - The Bathurst Rebellion begins outside Bathurst, New South Wales, following the escape of a group of convicts known as the 'Ribbon Gang' under the leadership of convict-servant Ralph Entwistle. Ten of the rebels are later captured and publicly hung after being tried and found guilty of murder.
• 7 October - The 'Black Line' campaign of the Black War begins in an attempt to capture all Tasmanian Aborigines. The campaign lasts 7 weeks and only succeeds in bringing two Aborigines to the authorities.
• Wool export in Australia - 2 million pounds.

  Exploration and settlement

• February - Charles Sturt and party discover the mouth of the Murray River.

  Births

• Morton Allport
• Freeman Cobb
• Robert Dunne
• Robert D. Fitzgerald
• Mark Foy
• Thomas Hardy
• Alfred William Howitt
• Henry Kingsley
• Patrick Francis Moran
• John Moresby
• Dan Morgan
• Charles Henry Pearson
• Louis Lawrence Smith

  Deaths

• Bungaree