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1849 in Australia

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

See also:
  
Other events of 1849 Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • 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).
  • 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.

    • Births

  • 18 January – Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (died 1920)
  • 11 February – Fred Bamford, politician (died 1934)
  • 26 March – Edwin Evans, cricketer (died 1921)
  • 27 July – Archibald Watson, surgeon (died 1940)
  • 22 September – Alexander Forrest, explorer and politician (died 1901)
  • 24 September – Justin Foxton, politician (died 1916)
  • 5 November – John Lancelot Stirling, politician (died 1932)
  • 2 December – Frank Allan, cricketer (died 1917)
  • William Kidston
  • Horace Lamb
  • Hume Nisbet
  • John Sulman
  • Archibald Watson

    • Deaths

  • 31 May – George Leake (born 1786), merchant
  • 9 December – John Glover (born 1767), artist

    • References

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