1849 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
• Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
• Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald

Events

• 26 January – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League is formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand).^[1]
• 23 February – Public meeting in Perth calls for introduction of convicts to the help the colony's depressed economy, first consignment arrive in the following June.^[2]
• May – A clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre.

Births

• 18 January – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (d. 1920)
• 11 February – Fred Bamford, Queensland politician (d. 1934)
• 26 March – Edwin Evans, cricketer (d. 1921)
• 27 July – Archibald Watson, surgeon (d. 1940)
• 8 August – Hume Nisbet, novelist and artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
• 17 August – William Kidston, 17th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
• 29 August – Sir John Sulman, architect (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1934)
• 22 September – Alexander Forrest, Western Australian politician and explorer (d. 1901)
• 24 September – Justin Foxton, Queensland politician (d. 1916)
• 5 November – Sir Lancelot Stirling, South Australian politician (d. 1932)
• 2 December – Frank Allan, cricketer (d. 1917)
• 28 December – Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)

References

1. ^ Currey, C. H. "Denison, Sir William Thomas (1804 – 1871)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
2. ^ Munday, Rosemary (ed.) (1991). "How Australia Began: Significant Dates in Australian History". The Bulletin Australian Almanac & Book of Facts 1992. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press. p. 3. ISSN 1038-054X