1894 in Australia

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Decades:
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See also:
  • Other events of 1894
  • Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1894 in Australia.

Incumbents[]

Premiers[]

  • Premier of New South Wales - George Dibbs (until 2 August) then George Reid
  • Premier of South Australia - Charles Kingston[1]
  • Premier of Queensland - Hugh Nelson
  • Premier of Tasmania - Henry Dobson (until 14 April) then Edward Braddon
  • Premier of Western Australia - John Forrest
  • Premier of Victoria - James Patterson (until 27 September) then George Turner

Governors[]

Events[]

  • January - A cyclone hits the north west of Western Australia, killing approximately 50 persons
  • 28 June - A Colonial Conference, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, resolves to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia.
  • 22 October - Martha Needle is hanged in Melbourne Gaol for the poisoning of her husband, and three children, in an attempt to obtain money from insurance policies.
  • 10 November - Jandamarra, an Indigenous Australian of the Bunuba people, leads one of the few armed insurrections against Europeans.
  • 18 December - South Australia is the first colony to legislate women equal franchise with men, taking effect in 1895.
  • The Australian Workers' Union is formed from the joining of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the General Labourers' Union.

Arts and literature[]

Main article: 1894 in Australian literature
  • The novel Seven Little Australians is published by Ethel Turner

Sport[]

  • Patron wins the Melbourne Cup
  • South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield

Births[]

  • 23 February – Harold Horder (died 1978), rugby league footballer
  • 13 April – Arthur Fadden (died 1973), Prime Minister of Australia
  • 30 April – H.V. Evatt (died 1965), politician
  • 14 August – Frank Burge (died 1958), rugby league footballer
  • 25 August – Nick Winter (died 1955), athlete
  • 20 December – Robert Menzies (died 1978), Prime Minister of Australia

Deaths[]

  • 17 February - John Alexander MacPherson (born 1833), Premier of Victoria

References[]

  1. ^ John Playford (1969). "Australian Dictionary of Biography - Volume 9: Kingston, Charles Cameron (1850–1908)". adb.online.anu.edu.au. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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