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1848 in Australia

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

See also:
  
Other events of 1848 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales — Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
  • Governor of South Australia — Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe (to 2 August) then Sir Henry Fox Young
  • Governor of Tasmania — Sir William Denison
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony — Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin.

    • Events

  • Letters Patent of Queen Victoria declaring Melbourne a city are read on the steps of St Peters, Eastern Hill church.
  • 13 February — The first non-British ship carrying immigrants to arrive in Victoria was from Germany; the Goddefroy. Many of those on board were political refugees and known as Forty-Eighters.
  • 3 April — Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs. On that date he wrote a letter from MacPherson's Station, Cogoon. Leichhardt had set off for Swan River.
  • 11 March — The Savings Bank of South Australia opens with a single employee, trading from a room provided rent-free.
  • 29 August — The Cape Otway lighthouse in Victoria is lit for the first time.

    • Births

  • 17 February — Louisa Lawson, writer, publisher and suffragette (died 1920)
  • 24 February — Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (died 1907)
  • John Langdon Bonython
  • George Chaffey
  • John Winthrop Hackett
  • John Heaton
  • Edward Hutton
  • Alexander Leeper
  • Alexander Macleay
  • Walter Madden
  • John Mather
  • William Shiels
  • Edward Stirling

    • Deaths

  • John Cadman
  • Frederick Garling
  • Maurice Charles O'Connell
  • William Sorell

    • References

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