1865 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1865 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir John Young, Bt
- Governor of Queensland – Sir George Bowen
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Dominick Daly
- Governor of Tasmania – Colonel Thomas Browne
- Governor of Victoria – Sir Charles Darling
- Governor of Western Australia – Dr John Hampton
Premiers
Premiers of the Australian colonies
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- Premier of New South Wales – James Martin until 3 February, then Charles Cowper
- Premier of Queensland – Robert Herbert
- Premier of South Australia – Arthur Blyth until 22 March, then Francis Dutton until 20 September, then Henry Ayers until 23 October, then John Hart.
- Premier of Tasmania – James Whyte
- Premier of Victoria – James McCulloch
Events
- 26 January – Bushrangers Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and John Dunn hold up Kimberley's Inn in the town of Collector, New South Wales. Dunn shoots and kills the local police officer, Constable Samuel Nelson.[1]
- 16 February – Fremantle to search for three settlers who had failed to return from an earlier exploring expedition. The three men were eventually found dead, having been speared and clubbed to death by Aboriginal Australians, apparently in their sleep.
- 21 February – A Royal Commission into the origin and nature of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (a cattle disease) presents its third and final report to the Parliament of Victoria.
- 6 April – Between 6 and 20 Aboriginal Australians are killed after they reportedly ambushed the La Grange expedition resulting in the La Grange Massacre.
- 8 April – Bushranger Wangaratta, Victoria.
- 5 May – Bushranger Ben Hall is shot dead by police at Goobang Creek in New South Wales.
- 13 May – Bushranger Binalong, New South Wales.
- 1 July – Stamp duty is introduced in New South Wales with the Stamp Duties Act of 1865.
- 17 July – The wooden Sydney Harbour.
- 31 July – Queensland Railways opens the first section of track from Ipswich to Bigge's Camp, the first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world.[2]
- 30 December – A general election is held in Victoria.
Unknown dates
- Arnott's Biscuitsis founded by Scottish baker William Arnott.
Sport
- Toryboy wins the Melbourne Cup. A trophy is awarded for the first time.[3]
Births
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- 16 January
- William Dick, New South Wales politician (d. 1932)
- Ernest Edwin Mitchell, composer (d. 1951)[4]
- 31 January – Thomas Crawford, Queensland politician (d. 1948)
- 25 February – George Richards, New South Wales politician (d. 1915)
- 4 March – Edward Dyson, poet and novelist (d. 1931)
- 12 March – E. Phillips Fox, impressionist painter (d. 1915)
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- 10 April – Lee Batchelor, South Australian politician (d. 1911)
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- 2 May – Jens Jensen, Tasmanian politician (d. 1936)
- 4 May – Sir David Gordon, South Australian politician (d. 1946)
- 5 May – David Watkins, New South Wales politician (d. 1935)
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- 15 June – Alfred Cecil Rowlandson, publisher and bookseller (d. 1922)
- 27 June – Sir John Monash, general (d. 1931)
- 1 July – Sir Granville Ryrie, New South Wales politician, diplomat and soldier (d. 1937)
- 18 July – Dowell O'Reilly, writer (d. 1923)
- 22 July – Michael Durack, Western Australian politician and pastoralist (d. 1950)
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- 16 August
- Harold Desbrowe-Annear, architect (d. 1933)
- Dame Mary Gilmore, socialist poet and journalist (d. 1962)
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- 21 August – Hugh Victor McKay, industrialist (d. 1926)
- 28 August – Alfred Stephens, writer and literary critic (d. 1933)
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- 21 September – Francis Kenna, Queensland politician, poet and journalist (d. 1932)
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- 27 October – Alfred Wheeler, minister and composer (d. 1949)
- 31 October – Hector Lamond, New South Wales politician (d. 1947)
- Frederick Burton, cricketer (d. 1929)
- Rose Ann Creal, military nurse, recipient of Royal Red Cross medal (d. 1921)
- 11 November – Michael O'Connor, Western Australian politician (d. 1940)
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- 27 November – Walter Frederick Gale, banker and astronomer (d. 1945)
- Unknown – James Mathews, Victorian politician (d. 1934)
Deaths
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- Dan Morgan, bushranger (b. 1830)
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- 18 May – Angus McMillan, explorer, pastoralist, and Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1810)
- 28 September – Edward Wise, New South Wales Supreme Court judge (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1818)
References
- New South Wales Police. Archived 28 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Origins of Australia's Railway Age Archived 29 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Heritage Council, 2003.
- ^ The Melbourne Cup is not very big[dead link], Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 23 October 2006.
- ^ "OBITUARY". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. 94, no. 29, 076. South Australia. 19 December 1951. p. 11. Retrieved 23 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.