1893 in Australia

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See also:
  • Other events of 1893
  • Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1893 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

Premiers[]

  • Premier of New South Wales – George Dibbs
  • Premier of South Australia – John Downer (until 16 June) then Charles Kingston
  • Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith (until 27 March), Thomas McIlwraith (until 27 October) then Hugh Nelson
  • Premier of Tasmania – Henry Dobson
  • Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
  • Premier of Victoria – William Shiels (until 23 January) then James Patterson

Governors[]

  • Governor of New South Wales – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey until March, then Robert Duff
  • Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman
  • Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
  • Governor of Tasmania – Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston
  • Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
  • Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson

Events[]

  • 30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893.[1]
  • 4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland.[2]
  • 14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
  • Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms
  • Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria spends time hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia

Arts and literature[]

Main article: 1893 in Australian literature

Sport[]

  • Tarcoola wins the Melbourne Cup
  • Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield Shield

Births[]

  • 10 January – Albert Jacka (died 1932), recipient of the Victoria Cross[4]
  • 11 January – Charles "Chook" Fraser (died 1981), rugby league footballer and coach
  • 13 January – Roy Cazaly (died 1963), Australian Rules footballer
  • 8 October – William Morrison (died 1961), Governor General of Australia
  • 2 December – Raphael Cilento (died 1985), medical administrator
  • 9 December – Ivo Whitton (died 1967), golfer

Deaths[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Monetary and Commercial – The Argus
  2. ^ Known Floods in the Brisbane and Bremer River Basin -BOM
  3. ^ Stanley, William, 1820-1902 (1893), Bay View gavotte [music] / composed by William Stanley (in no linguistic content), W.H. Paling & CoCS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Captain Albert Jacka". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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