1885 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1885 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

Governors[]

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South Wales – Lord Augustus Loftus (until 9 November), then Lord Carrington (from 12 December)
  • Governor of Queensland – Sir Anthony Musgrave
  • Governor of South Australia – Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, GCMG
  • Governor of Tasmania – Major Sir George Strahan
  • Governor of Victoria – Sir Henry Loch

Premiers[]

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

Events[]

  • 3 March – The New South Wales Contingent, consisting of an infantry battalion and an artillery battalion, leaves Sydney to fight in the Sudan Campaign.[1]
  • 28 March – HMQS Gayundah arrives in Brisbane.
  • 1 April – The Cabinet of South Australia meets to discuss the "Russian scare"—the fear that South Australia would come under attack from Russian warships should hostilities between Russia and Britain over Afghanistan result in war.[2]
  • 10 August – BHP, later to become the world's largest mining company, is registered as a company in Victoria.
  • 4–7 October – Third Intercolonial Trades Union Congress held in Sydney.
  • The Geographical Society of Australasia sent an expedition to the Fly River region of Papua New Guinea, naming and exploring the Strickland River.[3]

Science and technology[]

  • 24 March – Hugh Victor McKay patents stripper-harvester.[4]

Arts and literature[]

Main article: 1885 in Australian literature

Sport[]

  • 20 February – The Richmond Football Club is formed.
  • 3 November – wins the Melbourne Cup.
  • 17 October – Caulfield Cup when 16 of the 44 horses competing fell, resulting in the death of 25-year-old jockey Donald Nicolson.

Births[]

  • 8 January – John Curtin (died 1945), Australian Prime Minister
  • 29 January – Arthur Halloway (died 1961) rugby league footballer and coach
  • 20 March – Vernon Ransford (died 1958), cricketer
  • 1 July – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), poet
  • 12 August – Keith Murdoch (died 1952), journalist and newspaper publisher
  • 15 August – Beaumont Smith (died 1950), film director and producer
  • 18 August – Nettie Palmer (died 1964), poet and literary critic (wife of Vance Palmer)
  • 28 August – Vance Palmer (died 1959), novelist, essayist and critic (husband of Nettie Palmer)
  • 22 September – Ben Chifley (died 1951), Australian Prime Minister
  • 15 October – Frank Hurley (died 1962), photographer and adventurer
  • 7 November – Frank Cheadle, rugby league footballer and World War I soldier (died 1916).

Deaths[]

  • 28 January – Edward Davy (born 1806), scientist

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Sudan (New South Wales Contingent) March–June 1885". Australian military history overview. Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  2. ^ Painter, Alison. "1 April 1885 Russian scare". SA 175. Professional Historians Association (South Australia). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  3. ^ "The Exploratory Expedition to New Guinea". Sydney Morning Herald. 27 July 1885. p. 4.
  4. ^ Lack, John. "McKay, Hugh Victor (1865 - 1926)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Archived from the original on 21 March 2007. Retrieved 12 March 2007.
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