1832—Captain C. Barker murdered at Lake Alexandrina by the blacks.
1833—Surveyor Dixon on the Bogan.
1833—Sir Thomas Mitchell on the Namoi.
1833—Richard Cunningham, botanist, brother to Allan Cunningham, murdered by the blacks while with Sir Thomas Mitchell's expedition.
1835—E. Henty and brother formed a settlement in Portland Bay.
1836—John Batman landed at Port Phillip, and became a permanent settler there.
1836—Captain Sir John Hindmarsh founded Adelaide; first Governor of South Australia.
1836—Colonel Light surveyed the shores of St. Vincent's Gulf, and selected site of present city of Adelaide.
1836—Captain Hobson (afterwards Governor of New Zealand), in H.M.S RATTLESNAKE; surveyed and named Hobson's Bay.
1836—Sir Thomas Mitchell's expedition through Australia Felix.