| 释义 |
- Leaders
- Events
- References
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2012}}{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2011}}{{Year in Australia|1798}}The following lists events that happened during 1798 in Australia. Leaders- Monarch - George III
- Governor of New South Wales – John Hunter
- Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
- Inspector of Public Works – Richard Atkins
Events- 2 January – George Bass sights Wilsons Promontory
- 26 January – The koala and lyrebird observed by John Price on an expedition led by John Wilson
- 12 February – Matthew Flinders explores the Furneaux Islands
- 25 February – John Hunter names Bass Strait in honour of George Bass
- 14 May – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society
- 1 October – Sydney's first church St Philip's is destroyed by fire
- 7 October – George Bass and Matthew Flinders leave Sydney to explore Van Diemen's Land on the Norfolk
- 7 October – St Philip's Church founded in Sydney, completed in 1809
- 8 November – Nauru discovered by John Fearn
- 9 December – Bass and Flinders confirm the existence of the Bass Strait
- 22 December – Norfolk enters the Derwent River
- 25 December – George Bass climbs Mount Wellington
References
| last = Barker
| first = Anthony
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| coauthors =
| title =What Happened When
| publisher = Allen & Unwin
| year = 1996
| location = St Leonards
| isbn = 978-1-86373-986-3 }}
| last =National Library of Australia
| title = The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 – 1830
| url =http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/upsidedown/index.html | accessdate= 9 February 2007 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070320021016/http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/upsidedown/index.html| archivedate= 20 March 2007 }}{{Years in Australia}}{{Oceania topic|1798 in|countries_only=yes}} 2 : 1798 in Australia|Years of the 18th century in Australia |