1848 in Australia

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	Other events of 1848; ; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1848 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

Governors[]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
Governor of South Australia – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe (to 2 August) then Sir Henry Fox Young
Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin (acting), then Captain Charles Fitzgerald.

Events[]

Letters Patent of Queen Victoria declaring Melbourne a city are read on the steps of St Peters, Eastern Hill church.^[1]
13 February – The first non-British ship carrying immigrants to arrive in Victoria was from Germany; the Goddefroy. Many of those on board were political refugees and known as Forty-Eighters.
3 April – Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs. On that date he wrote a letter from MacPherson's Station, Cogoon.^[2] Leichhardt had set off for Swan River.^[3]
11 March – The Savings Bank of South Australia opens with a single employee, trading from a room provided rent-free.
29 August – The Cape Otway lighthouse in Victoria is lit for the first time.

Births[]

William Shiels

4 February – Sir John Winthrop Hackett, Western Australian politician and newspaper proprietor (born in Ireland) (d. 1916)
17 February – Louisa Lawson, writer, poet and feminist (d. 1920)
24 February – Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician and judge (d. 1907)
18 May – Sir John Henniker Heaton, postal reformer, journalist, and politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914)
3 June – Alexander Leeper, educationist (born in Ireland) (d. 1934)
8 September – Sir Edward Charles Stirling, South Australian politician and anthropologist (d. 1919)
15 October – Sir Langdon Bonython, South Australian politician and journalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1939)
3 December – William Shiels, 16th Premier of Victoria (born in Ireland) (d. 1904)
6 December – Sir Edward Hutton, 1st General Officer Commanding Australian Military Forces (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
16 December – Walter Madden, Victorian politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1925)
Unknown – John Mather, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1916)

Deaths[]

2 May – Frederick Garling, attorney and solicitor (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1775)
25 May – Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell, New South Wales politician and military commander (born in Ireland) (b. 1768)
4 June – William Sorell, 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land (born in the West Indies and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1775)
18 July – Alexander Macleay, New South Wales politician and entomologist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767)
12 November – John Cadman, convict and publican (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1758)

References[]

^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1986). "Part One: Capital City Chronologies". The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 29. ISBN 0-207-15232-2.
^ "Poor Leichhardt". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). National Library of Australia. 14 July 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
^ 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. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.

[Cameron2-1] Cameron, Angus, ed. (1986). "Part One: Capital City Chronologies". The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 29. ISBN 0-207-15232-2.

[LastLetter-2] "Poor Leichhardt". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). National Library of Australia. 14 July 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013.

[Cameron-3] 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. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.

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