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'{{Use Australian English|date=January 2012}} {{Year in Australia|1831}} The year of the Ripon Land Grant, which attracted many settlers to Australia. {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2011}} ==Incumbents== ===Governors=== [[Governors of the Australian states|Governors of the Australian colonies]]: *[[Governors of New South Wales|Governor of New South Wales]] - [[Ralph Darling]] (to 23 October). *[[Governors of New South Wales|Governor of New South Wales]] - [[Richard Bourke|Major-General Sir Richard Bourke]] (from 23 October). *[[Governors of Tasmania|Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania]] - [[George Arthur|Colonel George Arthur]] *[[Governor of Western Australia|Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony]] - [[James Stirling (Australian governor)|Captain James Stirling]] hello ==Events== * 4 March - [[James Stirling (Australian governor)|James Stirling]] commissioned as [[Governor of Western Australia|Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia]], rectifying the absence of a legal instrument providing the authority detailed in Stirling's Instructions of 30 December 1828. * 14 March - The ''[[Surprise (paddle steamer)|Surprise]]'', the first [[paddle steamer]] built in Australia, was launched in Sydney. * 18 April - The [[Sydney]] daily newspaper and Australia's oldest newspaper ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'' is first published. * The Ripon Land Regulation Act provides land grants. <!-- ==Exploration and settlement== --> <!-- ==Science and technology== --> ==Arts and literature== *[[Australian literature|Australia’s first novel]], ''Quintus Servinton: A Tale founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence'' was written and published in Tasmania . It was written by the convicted English forger [[Henry Savery]] and published anonymously. <!-- ==Sport== --> <!-- ==Births== --> <!-- ==Deaths== --> <!-- ==References== --> ==See also== *[[1831]] *[[1830s]] {{DEFAULTSORT:1831 In Australia}} [[Category:1831 by country|Australia]] [[Category:1831 in Australia| ]] [[Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia]]'