Events
- 2 January - George Bass sights Wilsons Promontory
- 26 January - The koala and lyrebird 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
- 29 April - There is a mutiny aboard HMS Bounty, William Bligh and crew members loyal to him are cast adrift.
- 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 Philip'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
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