1836 in Australia

Incumbents

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Buck
• Governor of South Australia – Captain John Hindmarsh
• Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Colonel George Arthur
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain James Stirling

  Events

• 14 March – HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, leaves Australia.

  Exploration and settlement

• 27 July – Reeves Point, South Australia's first official European settlement is founded on Kangaroo Island.
• 28 December – South Australia and Adelaide are founded.

  Births

• Thomas a Beckett
• Joseph Bancroft
• Robert Hamilton
• Henry Harrison
• Philip Sydney Jones
• David Scott Mitchell
• William Piguenit
• Henry Chamberlain Russell
• Samuel Way

  Deaths

• William Dawes