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1846 in Australia

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

See also:
  
Other events of 1846 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales — Sir George Gipps
  • Governor of South Australia — Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
  • Governor of Tasmania — Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony — John Hutt.

    • Events

  • 23 September — Explorer John Ainsworth Horrocks dies at Penwortham in South Australia, a month after he accidentally shot himself in a hunting accident.
  • 13 October — Bushranger Lawrence Kavenagh is executed by hanging.

    • Arts and literature

  • 2 June – first editions of Melbourne's daily newspaper, The Argus; and of Brisbane's weekly newspaper, Moreton Bay Courier, are published.

    • Sport

  • February – Australia's first swimming championships are held at Robinson's Domain Baths.

    • Births

  • 4 May — John Henry Want, NSW attorney general
  • James Burns
  • Johnny Dunn
  • Frank Hann
  • William MacGregor
  • William Miller
  • Henry Northcote
  • Edward O'Sullivan
  • Stephen Henry Parker
  • Charles Rasp
  • William Spence
  • Josiah Symon
  • Robert Etheridge
  • Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
  • Marcus Clarke

    • Deaths

  • 26 August – Esther Abrahams, convict, wife of George Johnston (briefly, NSW Governor)
  • 23 September — John Ainsworth Horrocks, explorer
  • 12 October — Lawrence Kavenagh, bushranger
  • Robert Campbell
  • Joseph Foveaux
  • Henry Kable
  • Charles Alexandre Lesueur

    • References

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