1861 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1861 in Australia.
Incumbents[]
Governors[]
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir William Denison, then John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar[1]
- Governor of Queensland – Sir George Bowen[2]
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Richard G. MacDonnell[3]
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir Henry Young[4]
- Governor of Victoria – Sir Henry Barkly[5]
- Governor of Western Australia – Sir Arthur Kennedy.
Premiers[]
Premiers of the Australian colonies:
- Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson, then Charles Cowper[6]
- Premier of Queensland – Robert Herbert[7]
- Premier of South Australia – Thomas Reynolds, then George Waterhouse[8]
- Premier of Tasmania – William Weston, then Thomas Chapman[9]
- Premier of Victoria – Richard Heales, then John O'Shanassy[10]
Events[]
- 13 May – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales.[11]
- 30 June – Lambing Flat riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales[12]
- 6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.[13]
- 8 July – The Geelong College is established by Reverend Alexander James Campbell in Newtown, Victoria.[14]
- October – Robertson land acts passed by Parliament of New South Wales.[15]
Arts and literature[]
- 24 May – National Gallery of Victoria founded[16]
Sport[]
- 7 November – The first Melbourne Cup is held. It is won by Archer. (List of Melbourne Cup winners).[17]
Births[]
- 12 January – Jack Moses, bush poet (d. 1945)
- 22 January – Sir George Fuller, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1940)
- 21 February – George Elmslie, 25th Premier of Victoria (d. 1918)
- 10 March – Sir John Longstaff, painter and war artist (d. 1941)
- 19 May – Dame Nellie Melba, opera singer (d. 1931)
- 11 June – Sir Alexander Peacock, 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933)
- 12 June – James Gardiner, Western Australian politician (born in New Zealand) (d. 1928)
- 13 June – Kate Dwyer, educator, suffragist and labour activist (d. 1949)
- 22 June – John Lemmone, flautist, composer and manager (d. 1949)
- 2 August – Edith Cowan, Western Australian politician and the first woman elected to an Australian legislature (d. 1932)
- 14 September – Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville, sculptor, water colourist, and educator (d. 1930)
- 18 September – Dame Eadith Walker, heiress and philanthropist (d. 1937)
- 6 October – Thomas Brown, New South Wales politician (d. 1934)
- 2 December – James White, sculptor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918)
Deaths[]
- 15 March – James Clow, Presbyterian minister and settler (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1790)
- 28 June
- Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer (born in Ireland) (b. 1821)
- William John Wills, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1834)
- 21 October – Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1788)
References[]
- ^ Ward, John M. "Young, Sir John (1807–1876)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Governors of Queensland - Government House Queensland". www.govhouse.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Manhood, C. C. "MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1814–1881)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Previous Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania". Government House Tasmania. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Sir Henry Barkly | British colonial administrator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Ward, John M. "Cowper, Sir Charles (1807–1875)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Moore, Tony (30 September 2017). "Queensland's first premier in 1859 was most likely gay". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Tregenza, Jean F. "Waterhouse, George Marsden (1824–1906)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Premiers of Tasmania". www.parliament.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Ingham, S. M. "O'Shanassy, Sir John (1818–1883)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Young man who saw stars". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Lambing Flat Riots | Summary & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Erickson, Rica (1983). "The Unwanted". In Erickson, Rica (ed.). The Brand on His Coat: Biographies of some Western Australian Convicts. Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press. pp. 157–223. ISBN 0-85564-223-8.
- ^ "Municipality of Newtown, Victoria". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Boucher, Leigh; Russell, Lynette (2015). Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria. ANU Press. p. 192. ISBN 9781925022353.
- ^ Edwards, Geoffrey Robert; Victoria, National Gallery of (1998). Art of Glass: Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Macmillan Education AU. p. 11. ISBN 9780958574310.
- ^ "National Museum of Australia - Melbourne Cup". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
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