1845 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1845 in Australia.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
- Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey (to 25 October), then Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.
Events
[edit]- 12 March – St John the Baptist Church in Reid Canberra is consecrated.
- 4 August – The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown.
- 20 July – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.
- 21 June – News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
- 17 December – Ludwig Leichhardt arrives at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs.[1]
- Undated – Port Augusta War ends[2]
- Undated – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are killed in the Darkey Flat massacre.
- Wool export in Australia – 24 million pounds.
Births
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- 12 January – Walter Howchin, geologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1937)
- 11 February – John Chanter, New South Wales politician (d. 1931)
- 16 February – Maybanke Anderson, suffragette and reformer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1927)
- 17 February – Percival Ball, sculptor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1900)
- 25 February – Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918)
- 20 March – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 17th Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
- 3 April – William Farrer, agronomist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906)
- 15 April – Dave Gregory, cricketer (d. 1919)
- 16 June – William Charles Kernot, engineer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)
- 21 June
- Henry Brockman, Western Australian politician (d. 1916)
- Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premier of Queensland and 1st Chief Justice of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1920)
- 19 October – Frank Hann, pastoralist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921)
- 21 October – Ernest Favenc, explorer, journalist and author (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908)
- 15 December – Thomas Skene, Victorian politician (d. 1910)
- 30 December – Thomas Edward Spencer, writer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)
Deaths
[edit]- 5 August – John Blaxland, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769)
References
[edit]- ^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 12. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
- ^ cnet. "Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline". Australian Frontier Conflicts. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
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