1850 in Australia

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Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
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The following lists events that happened during 1850 in Australia.

Governors[]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
  • Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
  • Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald.

Events[]

  • 26 January – The Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, starts publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue: aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.[1][2]
  • 5 August – Port Phillip (later called Victoria) established as a separate colony from New South Wales.[3]
  • 1 June – First convicts arrive in Western Australia, ticket-of-leave transportation suspended in New South Wales.[4]
  • 1 October – University of Sydney is founded as Australia's first university.[3]

Science and technology[]

Births[]

Charles Kingston
  • 7 January
    • Joseph James Fletcher, biologist (born in New Zealand) (d. 1926)
    • Robert Richardson, journalist, poet and writer (d. 1901)
  • 29 January – Lawrence Hargrave, engineer, explorer, and inventor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
  • 1 February – Sir Matthew Davis, Victorian politician (d. 1912)
  • 13 February – Michael Kelly, 4th Archbishop of Sydney (born in Ireland) (d. 1940)
  • 17 February – Alf Morgans, 4th Premier of Western Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
  • 23 February – Octavius Beale, piano manufacturer and philanthropist (born in Ireland) (d. 1930)
  • 25 April – William Knox, Victorian politician and businessman (d. 1913)
  • 26 April – James Drake, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1941)
  • 12 May – Sir Frederick Holder, 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
  • 23 August – Sir John Cockburn, 18th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
  • 22 October – Charles Kingston, 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
  • 23 November – Henry Lowther Clarke, 1st Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
  • 3 December – Sir Richard Butler, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1850)
  • Unknown – Christie Palmerston, explorer and prospector (d. 1897)
  • Unknown – Mei Quong Tart, merchant (born in China) (d. 1903)

Deaths[]

  • 22 January – William Westall, landscape artist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1781)
  • 9 February – Elizabeth Macarthur, pastoralist and merchant (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1766)
  • 16 June – William Lawson, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774)
  • 3 September – Ikey Solomon, convict (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)
  • Unknown, possibly April – Yuranigh, guide and stockman (b. 1820)

References[]

  1. ^ "Old and Young Ireland Again". Launceston Examiner (Morning ed.). Tasmania. 22 May 1850. p. 4. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "Important from Van Diemen's Land". South Australian Register. 2 March 1850. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ a b Munday, Rosemary, ed. (1991). "How Australia Began: Significant Dates in Australian History". The Bulletin Australian Almanac & Book of Facts 1992. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press. p. 3. ISSN 1038-054X.
  4. ^ 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, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 13. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
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