1793 in Australia

← 1792 1791 1790 1793 in Australia → 1794 1795 1796
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	Other events of 1793 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1793 in Australia.

• Monarch - George III
• Acting Governor of New South Wales – Lieutenant-Governor Francis Grose
• Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk Island – Philip Gidley King
• Commanding officer of the New South Wales Corps – Francis Grose

• 16 January – Bellona arrives with Australia's first free settlers.
• 22 January – The French d'Entrecasteaux expedition returns to Recherche Bay, Tasmania, to rewater and rest.
• 12 February – John Macarthur is granted 100 acres (0.40 km²) of land at Parramatta.
• 16 February – John Macarthur is appointed by Grose as inspector of public works.
• 18 February – A school opens in an unfinished church building in Sydney; Isabella Rosson is the first teacher (the first school had been established in 1789).
• 28 February – d'Entrecasteaux expedition leaves Tasmania towards the Friendly Islands, continuing search for La Pérouse.
• 2 May – Mary Bryant is pardoned in England.
• May – Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne become the first Aboriginal Australians to visit Britain when they land at Falmouth, Cornwall, with Arthur Phillip.
• 15 September – Captain William Paterson leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful.
• 25 September – Sydney's first church opens.
• Macquarie Lighthouse, the first in Australia, is erected in Sydney.

• 8 March – David Jones
• 1 June – Augustus Earle

• Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86373-986-6.
• National Library of Australia. "The World Upside Down: Australia 1788 – 1830". Archived from the original on 20 March 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2007.