1881 in Australia

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See also:
  • Other events of 1881
  • Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1881 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

Governors[]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South Wales – Lord Augustus Loftus
  • Governor of Queensland – Sir Arthur Kennedy
  • Governor of South Australia – Sir William Jervois
  • Governor of Tasmania – Major Sir George Strahan
  • Governor of Victoria – George Phipps, Marquess of Normanby
  • Governor of Western Australia – Sir William Robinson

Premiers[]

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

  • Premier of New South Wales – Sir Henry Parkes
  • Premier of Queensland – Thomas McIlwraith
  • Premier of South Australia – William Morgan till 24 June then Sir John Cox Bray
  • Premier of Tasmania – William Giblin
  • Premier of Victoria – Graham Berry until 9 July then James Service

Events[]

  • 18 June – The Art Gallery of South Australia opened by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence.

Census[]

In the mid-19th century the colonial statisticians encouraged compatibility between the colonies in their respective censuses, and in 1881 a census was held simultaneously in each of the colonies.[1] This was part of a census of the British Empire. The questions posed in the colonies were not uniform.

The population of Australia was 2,250,194.[2]

1881 census results
NSW Vic Qld Tas SA NT WA Australia
751,468 862,346 213,525 115,704 276,414 9,797 29,708 2,250,194

Northern Territory was counted within South Australia (286,211) and was 3,451 plus 6,346 Aboriginals in settled districts. The population of Western Australia did not include full-blood Aborigines.[2]

The population of greater Melbourne was 282,947 and of Sydney was 224,939.[2]

Arts and literature[]

Main article: 1881 in Australian literature

Sport[]

  • Zulu wins the Melbourne Cup

Births[]

  • 10 January - Leslie Rainey, cricketer, footballer and tennis player (died 1962)
  • 6 April - Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot, Australian poet (died 1942).
  • 11 September - William Jolly, first Lord Mayor of Brisbane (died 1955)

Deaths[]

  • 2 August - Marcus Clarke, author (born 1846)

References[]

  1. ^ "The population census - a brief history". 1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2005. Australian Bureau of Statistics. 2005. Retrieved 25 June 2006.
  2. ^ a b c Aplin, Graeme; S.G. Foster; Michael McKernan, eds. (1987). Australians: Events and Places. Broadway, New South Wales, Australia: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates. p. 97. ISBN 0-949288-13-6.
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