1846 in Australia
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Monarch | Queen Victoria |
Population | 293,249 |
The following lists events that happened during 1846 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
- Governor of South Australia – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt, then Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke.
Events
- formation of "The South Australian League for the Maintenance of Religious Freedom in the Province" in response to the proposed funding of Church of England education from public funds[1]
- August – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are killed in the Blanket Bay massacre.
- 1 July – William Westwood, a bushranger, leads the Cooking Pot Uprising in the penal colony of Norfolk Island in response to the confiscation of convicts' cooking vessels under the orders of the Commandant of the penal settlement, Major Joseph Childs.
- 23 September – Explorer John Ainsworth Horrocks dies at Penwortham in South Australia, a month after he accidentally shot himself in a hunting accident.[2]
- 13 October – Bushranger Lawrence Kavenagh is executed by hanging.[3]
- Undated – 14 Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
- Undated – 8 Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Arts and literature
- 2 June – first editions of Melbourne's daily newspaper, The Argus; and of Brisbane's weekly newspaper, Moreton Bay Courier, are published.[4]
Sport
- February – Australia's first swimming championships are held at Robinson's Domain Baths.[4]
Births
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- 10 February – Sir James Burns, New South Wales politician, shipowner and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
- 17 February – Sir John George Davies, Tasmanian politician, newspaper proprietor and cricketer (d. 1913)
- Edward O'Sullivan, New South Wales politician and journalist (d. 1910)
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- Leader of the Victorian Labor Party (d. 1925)
- 17 July – Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, explorer, ethnologist and anthropologist (born and died in the Russian Empire) (d. 1888)
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- 20 October – Sir William MacGregor, 11th Governor of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
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- 18 November – Lord Northcote, 3rd Governor-General of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)
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Deaths
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- 20 March – Joseph Foveaux, soldier and convict settlement administrator (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767)
- 15 April – Robert Campbell, New South Wales politician and merchant (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769)
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- 23 September – John Ainsworth Horrocks, pastoralist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1818)[2]
- 12 December – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, naturalist, artist and explorer (born and died in France) (b. 1778)
References
- ^ Hodder, Edwin (1893). The History of South Australia from Its Foundation to the Year of Its Jubilee. Vol. 1. S. Low, Marston, Limited. pp. 221–225 – via Google Books.
- ^ ISBN 0-522-85214-9. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ a b "Norfolk Island". The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840–1859). National Library of Australia. 28 October 1846. p. 3.
- ^ ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
- ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 24 February 2013.