1842 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1842 in Australia.
Incumbents[]
Governors[]
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Sir George Gipps
- Governor of South Australia - Sir George Grey
- Governor of Tasmania - Captain Sir John Franklin
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - John Hutt.
Events[]
- 20 July - an Act (6 Vic. No 3) passed "to declare the town of Sydney to be a city and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof".[1]
- 12 August - Melbourne incorporated as a "town".[1]
- 21 August - Hobart Town is proclaimed a city.
Births[]
- 15 January – Mary MacKillop, religious sister (d. 1909)
- 1 February – Robert Harper, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
- 26 April – Paddy Hannan, gold prospector (born in Ireland) (d. 1925)
- 31 May – Sir John Cox Bray, 15th Premier of South Australia (d. 1894)
- 22 June – Sir Richard Baker, South Australian politician (d. 1911)
- 5 July – Andrew "Captain Moonlite" Scott, bushranger (born in Ireland) (d. 1880)
- 17 July – Sir Alexander Onslow, 3rd Chief Justice of Western Australia (d. 1908)
- 10 September – Charles French, horticulturist, naturalist, and entomologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
- 23 September – John Brazier, malacologist (d. 1930)
- 29 September – Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott, New South Wales politician (d. 1901)
- 10 October – Emily Dobson, philanthropist (d. 1934)
- 18 November – Sir Frederick Broome, 11th Governor of Western Australia (born in Canada) (d. 1896)
- 11 December – William Gosse, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1881)
- 14 December – Julia Matthews, actress and singer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1876)
- 19 December – Emma Withnell, pastoralist and businesswoman (d. 1928)
- Unknown – Richard Edwards, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
- Unknown – John Gilbert, bushranger (born in Canada) (d. 1865)
Deaths[]
- 18 August – Louis de Freycinet, explorer (born and died in France) (b. 1779)
Notes[]
- ^ a b "History of Sydney City Council" (PDF). City of Sydney. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 December 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2007.
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