1847 in Australia

Updated on Dec 02, 2023

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Decades: 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s See also: Other events of 1847 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of South Australia - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe

Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison

Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke.

15 July - St Peter's College, Adelaide is founded by members of the Anglican Church of Australia.

28 December - Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England.

George Collingridge

John Forrest

James Huddart

Archibald Liversidge

Henry Montgomery

Edward Petherick

Louis de Rougemont

Rose Scott

Frederick William Ward

11 February - Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke, Governor of Western Australia (born 1793).

John Eardley-Wilmot

John Franklin

Joseph Wild

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