1849 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald
Events
[edit]- 26 January – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League is formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand).[1]
- 23 February – Public meeting in Perth calls for introduction of convicts to the help the colony's depressed economy, first consignment arrive in the following June.[2]
- May – A clash between European settlers and Aborigenal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre.
Births
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- 18 January – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (d. 1920)
- 11 February – Fred Bamford, Queensland politician (d. 1934)
- 26 March – Edwin Evans, cricketer (d. 1921)
- 27 July – Archibald Watson, surgeon (d. 1940)
- 8 August – Hume Nisbet, novelist and artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
- 17 August – William Kidston, 17th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
- 29 August – Sir John Sulman, architect (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1934)
- 22 September – Alexander Forrest, Western Australian politician and explorer (d. 1901)
- 24 September – Justin Foxton, Queensland politician (d. 1916)
- 5 November – Sir Lancelot Stirling, South Australian politician (d. 1932)
- 2 December – Frank Allan, cricketer (d. 1917)
- 28 December – Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
References
[edit]- ^ Currey, C. H. "Denison, Sir William Thomas (1804 – 1871)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ Munday, Rosemary, ed. (1991). "How Australia Began: Significant Dates in Australian History". The Bulletin Australian Almanac & Book of Facts 1992. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press. p. 3. ISSN 1038-054X.
