1844 in Australia

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See also:
  • Other events of 1844
  • Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1844 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 – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.

Events[]

  • 1 January – Australia's first ringing peal rang from the bells of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
  • 6 April – John Gavin is the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. Gavin, a fifteen-year-old apprentice, was found guilty of the murder of his employer's son, George Pollard.[1]
  • 12 September – The Royal Society of Tasmania was formed. It was the first branch of the Society established outside Britain.

Exploration and settlement[]

  • August – Charles Sturt explores the Stony Desert, fails to establish existence of an inland sea.[2]
  • 1 October – Ludwig Leichhardt leads expedition starting from Jimbour on the Darling Downs to Port Essington, Northern Territory, arriving in December 1845.[2]


Births[]

Sir William Lyne
  • 31 January – James McColl, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
  • 7 February – Joseph Brown, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
  • 8 February – John McGarvie Smith, metallurgist, bacteriologist and benefactor (d. 1918)
  • 17 March – Sir Henry Briggs, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
  • 6 April
    • Francis Bertie Boyce, clergyman and social reformer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931)
    • Sir William Lyne, 13th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1913)
  • 9 May – Thomas Macdonald-Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906)
  • 11 May – Watkin Wynne, journalist, councillor and newspaper owner (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921)
  • 16 May – Sir John Madden, 4th Chief Justice of Victoria (born in Ireland) (d. 1918)
  • 26 August – J. C. Williamson, actor (born in the United States) (d. 1913)
  • 30 August – William Tietkens, explorer and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
  • 26 September – Charles Strong, preacher and minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1942)
  • 14 October – Sir John See, 14th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1907)
  • 15 October – John Gavan Duffy, Victorian politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1917)
  • 13 November – Andrew Harper, biblical scholar and teacher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1936)
  • 21 November – Ada Cambridge, writer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)

Deaths[]

  • 29 June – Sir John Jamison, New South Wales politician, physician and pastoralist (born in Ireland) (b. 1776)
  • 14 September – Prosper de Mestre, businessman and merchant (born in France) (b. 1789)
  • 27 September – Sir James Dowling, 2nd Chief Justice of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)

References[]

  1. ^ "Quarter Sessions". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal. National Library of Australia. 6 April 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 12. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
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