- Incumbents Governors
- Events
- Exploration and settlement
- Science and technology
- Arts and literature
- Sport
- Births
- Deaths
- Notes
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2011}}{{Use Australian English|date=November 2011}}{{Year in Australia|1834}}The following lists events that happened during 1834 in Australia. IncumbentsGovernorsGovernors of the Australian colonies: - Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke[1]
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Colonel George Arthur
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling
Events- 1 January – The Western Australian Police Force is formed.
- 14 January – The ten remaining convicts at the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station hijack a brig and escape to Chile in the Frederick escape
- 28 February – The Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia. Between 14-40 Aborigines are killed by British colonists.
- 19 November – The first permanent European settlement on the north coast of Bass Strait is established at Portland by Edward Henty.
Births- Louisa Atkinson
- James Charles Cox
- George Dibbs
- Patrick Durack
- Duncan Gillies
- Arthur Orton
- Christopher Augustine Reynolds
- John Tebbutt
- Roger Vaughan
- Peter Waite
- William John Wills
- William Windeyer
DeathsNotes1. ^{{Citation | last = King | first = Hazel | author-link = Hazel King | contribution = Sir Richard Bourke | editor-last = Pike | editor-first = Douglas | title = Australian Dictionary of Biography | volume = 1 | pages = 128–133 | publisher = Melbourne University Press | place = Melbourne | year = 1966 | contribution-url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010120b.htm}}
{{Years in Australia}}{{Oceania topic|1834 in|countries_only=yes}}{{DEFAULTSORT:1834 In Australia}} 3 : 1834 by country|1834 in Australia|Years of the 19th century in Australia |