1871 in Australia

Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	Other events of 1871; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1871 in Australia.

Incumbents

March – Explorer John Ross is the first European to explore and name the Todd River.

10 January – Miles Evergood (died 1939), artist
24 January – Oscar Asche (died 1936), actor and director
17 February – Florence Anderson, (died 1939) first female trade union secretary in Victoria
22 February – Hayden Starke (died 1958), High Court judge
3 April – John Wren (died 1953), businessman
20 August – Sydney Long (died 1955), artist
23 November – William Watt (died 1946), 24th Premier of Victoria

2 January – Sir Samuel Blackall (born 1809), Governor of Queensland
19 January – Sir William Denison (born 1804), Governor of Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales
23 April – James Frederick Palmer (born 1803), Victorian politician

^ Mitchell, Ann M. (1977). The hospital south of the Yarra : a history of Alfred Hospital Melbourne from foundation to the nineteen-forties. Melbourne: Alfred Hospital. ISBN 0-9596503-0-X. OCLC 6686065.
^ "MacKillop banished after uncovering sex abuse". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 25 September 2010. Archived from the original on 26 September 2010. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
^ "South Australian Cricketing Association". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 1 June 1871. p. 6. Retrieved 30 September 2012 – via National Library of Australia. The "ing" was dropped between the 1898 and 1899 A.G.M.s

Years in Australia (1788–present)

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