1837 in Australia

Incumbents

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales - Major-General Sir Richard Bourke
• Governor of South Australia - Captain John Hindmarsh
• Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Captain Sir John Franklin
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain James Stirling

  Events

• 2 January - The Supreme Court of South Australia is established by Letters Patent, five days after the founding of the colony.
• 6 March - The Theatre Royal in Hobart opened. It remains Australia's oldest working theatre.
• 28 March - The Hoddle Grid of streets for the central business district is surveyed by Robert Hoddle.
• 1 June - First inner-city land sale in Melbourne.
• 10 June - The first whale is caught in Western Australia.

  Births

• John Atherton
• Gracius Broinowski
• Ben Hall
• William Hann
• Ernest Henry
• James Venture Mulligan
• Thomas Playford
• Frederick Wolseley

  Deaths

• 10 February - Frederick Goulburn, first Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
• William Cox
• Joseph Gellibrand
• Francis Greenway
• James Ruse