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1827 in Australia

overview of Australia-related events during the year of 1827

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4554257 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following lists events that happened during 1827 in Australia.

Incumbents

Monarch – George IV

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of New South Wales - Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling

Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur

Events

5 January - First boat regatta held on the River Derwent. On 30 April a regatta was held in Sydney.

Theatre Royal, Sydney opened.

Exploration and settlement

18 June - James Stirling establishes the Fort Wellington settlement at Raffles Bay, on the Cobourg Peninsula, Northern Territory.

Births

24 October – James Rutherford, transit pioneer (born in the United States) (d.

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The public source identifies “1827 in Australia” as overview of Australia-related events during the year of 1827. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Australia, overview and Australia-related.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1827—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Australia, overview and Australia-related providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1827 in Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.