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1842 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

See also:
  
Other events of 1842 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales - Sir George Gipps
  • Governor of South Australia - Sir George Grey
  • Governor of Tasmania - Captain Sir John Franklin
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - John Hutt.

    • Events

  • 20 July - an Act (6 Vic.No 3) passed "to declare the town of Sydney to be a city and to incorporate the inhabitants thereof".
  • 12 August - Melbourne incorporated as a "town".
  • 21 August - Hobart Town is proclaimed a city.

    • Births

  • 15 January - Mary MacKillop, the only Australian nun to be canonized, is born in Fitzroy, Victoria.
  • Joseph Palmer Abbott
  • John Cox Bray
  • John Brazier
  • Frederick Broome
  • Charles French
  • John Gilbert
  • William Gosse
  • Paddy Hannan
  • Julia Matthews
  • Alexander Onslow
  • Andrew Scott (Captain Moonlite)
  • Emma Withnell

    • Deaths

  • Louis de Freycinet

    • References

    1842 in Australia Wikipedia
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