← 1797 1796 1795 1798 in Australia → 1799 1800 1801
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	Other events of 1798 Timeline of Australian history

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The following lists events that happened during 1798 in Australia .

Contents

• Leaders
• Events
• References

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 are 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 Phillip'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

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN   978-1-86373-986-3.
• National Library of Australia. "The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 – 1830". Archived from the original on 20 March 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2007.