1884 in Australia

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← 1883 1882 1881 1884 in Australia → 1885 1886 1887
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1884 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1884 in Australia.

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Lord Augustus Loftus
• William Cleaver Francis Robinson^{[1] Archived 5 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine}
• Major Sir George Strahan
• William Foster Stawell

• Premier of New South Wales – Alexander Stuart^[2]
• Premier of South Australia – Sir John Cox Bray until 16 June then John Colton^{[3] Archived 5 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine}
• Premier of Tasmania – William Giblin until 15 August then Adye Douglas^[4]
• Premier of Victoria – James Service

• 13 March –
  Daisy Bates married Breaker Morant
  .
• 16 June – The South Australian government of
  premier by the opposition leader John Colton
  .
• October – Billy Hughes migrated to Australia.

Science and technology

• Sydney and Melbourne connected by telephone.^[1]

Arts and literature

Sport

• November – Malua wins the Melbourne Cup^[5]

Births

• 8 February –
  Reginald "Snowy" Baker (died 1953), sportsman and actor^[6]
• 16 December – John Gunn (died 1959), Premier of South Australia^[7]
• 22 December – Bartlett Adamson (died 1951), journalist, poet, author and political activist^[2]

Deaths

• 25 January – James Francis (born 1819), Premier of Victoria^[8]
• 22 February – Sir Charles Sladen (born 1816), Premier of Victoria^[9]

Notes