1803 in Australia
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Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
Events
- 14 January – Lieut-Col David Collins commissioned in England to found a new settlement on Bass Strait, preferably at Port Phillip.
- 5 March – George Howe publishes the first issue of the weekly The Sydney Gazette and The New South Wales Advertiser, Australia's first newspaper.
- 27 December – Convict William Buckley escapes from Sullivan Bay, Victoria. He lives with the Wautharong Aboriginal people for 32 years.
Exploration and settlement
- January–February - Acting Lieutenant Charles Robbins and NSW Surveyor General Charles Grimes survey Port Phillip in HMS Cumberland
- 2 February – Charles Grimes discovered the Yarra River.
- 9 June – Investigator arrives in Port Jackson after circumnavigating Australia. On the voyage Matthew Flinders charted the coast and Robert Brown made an extensive collection of the flora of Australia.
- 11 September – John Bowen with a party of forty-eight found the first settlement in Van Diemen's Land near the Derwent River.
- 9 October - David Collins, on HMS Calcutta and Ocean, establishes the short-lived settlement at Sullivan Bay on Port Phillip
Births
- 1 January – Daniel Egan, politician (died 1870)
