- Triggered by accounts of the mistreatment of Aboriginal people by British colonists, the British House of Commons orders an inquiry and appoints a select committee to review the treatment of Aboriginal people by British subjects throughout the Empire.
- William Lonsdale appointed Police Magistrate amongst increased killing and dispossession of Aboriginal people amongst authorities’ disinterest or lack of control. Cowie, von Steiglitz, Sutherland, Thompson & Manifold rush to take land near Geelong.
- Willem Baa Ni ip, destined to be the last traditional Wathaurong person is born.
- Buckley acts as an interpreter between the Port Phillip Association & the Wathaurong.
- A ‘settler’ shoots Curacoine, clan-head of the Wadawurrung balug, dumping his body in the Barwon River.