- Lieutenant-Governor Stirling appointed Governor.
- First locally-grown wheat ground into flour in Col. Latour's horse flour mill on the corner of Market and Bay Streets.
- Round House built.
- Alma Street Cemetery opened.
- Kingstown township on Rottnest Island open for selection.
- January 4: Ann and Henry Budd (wife and son of Robert Budd) drowned in a boating accident.
- December: The Fremantle Observer newspaper first appears.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1831.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.