- Incumbents Governors
- Events
- Exploration and settlement
- Science and technology
- Arts and literature
- Sport
- Births
- Deaths
- References
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}{{Use Australian English|date=February 2012}}{{Year in Australia|1836}}The following lists events that happened during 1836 in Australia. IncumbentsGovernorsGovernors 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.
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{{Years in Australia}}{{Oceania topic|1836 in|countries_only=yes}}{{DEFAULTSORT:1836 in Australia}} 3 : 1836 by country|1836 in Australia|Years of the 19th century in Australia |