1875 in Australia

Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	Other events of 1875; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1875 in Australia.

Incumbents

11 January – William Robinson arrives in Western Australia to become Governor of the colony.
13 January – Frederick Weld becomes Governor of Tasmania.
23 January – William Cairns becomes Governor of Queensland.
9 February – John Robertson becomes Premier of New South Wales, replacing Henry Parkes.
24 February – The SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off Ayr, Queensland and sinks with the loss of 102 lives.
24 May – J. V. Mulligan and party discover the Barron River in Queensland, they left Cooktown on 17 April
6 May – Ernest Giles and party leave South Australia for an overland expedition to Perth, they arrive on 10 November.
3 June – Premier of South Australia Arthur Blyth resigns and is replaced by James Boucaut.
7 August – Graham Berry becomes Premier of Victoria.
20 October – James McCulloch becomes Premier of Victoria for the fourth time.
24 December – 59 die when a cyclone destroys the pearling fleet in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia.
Undated – Between 80 and 100 Arrernte (formerly known as Aranda) men, women and children are killed by a raiding party of 50 to 60 Matuntara warriors in the massacre of Running Waters.

New South Government establishes an art gallery in Sydney; it later becomes the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Polo played for the first time in Australia at Albert Park in Victoria
Soccer played for the first time in Australia at Goodna in New South Wales.
Wollomai wins the Melbourne Cup; the cup was held on the first Tuesday in November for this first time this year

20 March – Benjamin Fuller, theatrical entrepreneur (died 1952)
29 April – Margaret Preston, painter and printmaker (died 1963)
22 July – Leslie James Wrigley, academic, school inspector, principal, and teacher^[1] (died 1933)
3 December – Max Meldrum, painter (died 1955)

Unknown date

Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.

Years in Australia (1788–present)

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