1836 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1836 in Australia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch - William IV

Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
 * Governor of New South Wales – Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
 * 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.
 * 27 May – At least 7 Aboriginal are killed by Major Thomas Mitchell and his men in his third expedition as Surveyor General of New South Wales in the Mount Dispersion massacre.
 * 29 July – Church Act enacted

Exploration and settlement

 * 27 July – Reeves Point (later Kingscote), 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