1845 in Australia

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Decades:
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
See also:

The following lists events that happened during 1845 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

Governors[]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
  • Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey (to 25 October), then Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
  • Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.

Events[]

  • 12 March – St John the Baptist Church in Reid Canberra is consecrated.
  • 4 August – The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown.
  • 20 July – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.
  • 21 June – News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
  • 17 December – Ludwig Leichhardt arrives at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs.[1]
  • Wool export in Australia – 24 million pounds.

Births[]

Sir George Reid
  • 12 January – Walter Howchin, geologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1937)
  • 11 February – John Chanter, New South Wales politician (d. 1931)
  • 16 February – Maybanke Anderson, suffragette and reformer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1927)
  • 17 February – Percival Ball, sculptor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1900)
  • 25 February – Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918)
  • 20 March – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 17th Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
  • 3 April – William Farrer, agronomist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906)
  • 15 April – Dave Gregory, cricketer (d. 1919)
  • 16 June – William Charles Kernot, engineer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)
  • 21 June
  • 21 October – Ernest Favenc, explorer, journalist and author (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908)
  • 30 December – Thomas Edward Spencer, writer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)

Deaths[]

  • 5 August – John Blaxland, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769)

References[]

  1. ^ 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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