2 June – Pemulwuy is shot and killed following the killing of four white men at Parramatta and Toongabbie.[1]
9 October - The first book printed in Australia appeared. It was an abridged version of the New South Wales General Standing Orders. Its publication was supervised by the government printer, George Howe.[2]
1 May – Matthew Flinders becomes the first European to visit the You Yangs ranges near Geelong, Victoria. He and three of his men climb to the highest point, naming it "Station Peak". It is later renamed Flinders Peak.
Deaths
2 June – Pemulwuy (b. c. 1750), Indigenous Australian resistance leader