1843 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1843 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
- George Grey
- Sir John Franklin
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.
Events
- July – Up to 150 Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
- 12 September – The Battle of One Tree Hill was a conflict between European settlers and aboriginals.
- Undated – The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is started, using convict labour, it is completed in 1864, using free labourers.[1]
- Undated – The War of Southern Queensland begins between a coalition of Aboriginal tribes in South East Queensland, the "United Tribes", and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland it would be fought until 1855.
Science and technology
- September – John Ridley builds his invention, a corn stripper-harvester, in Hindmarsh.[2][3]
Births
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- 27 July – Joseph Vardon, South Australian politician and printer (d. 1913)
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- 26 September – Joseph Furphy, author and poet (d. 1912)
- 1 October – Garnet Walch, writer, journalist and publisher (d. 1913)
- 9 October – Alexander William Jardine, engineer (d. 1920)
- 5 November – Sir Harry Rawson, 21st Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
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Deaths
- 22 December – John Bigge, judge and royal commissioner (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1843 in Australia.
- ISBN 0-207-15232-2.
- ^ "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention". South Australian Register. National Library of Australia. 9 September 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ISBN 0-207-15108-3.