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1850 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

See also:
  
Other events of 1850 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 Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, starts publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue: aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.
  • 5 August – Port Phillip (later called Victoria) established as a separate colony from New South Wales.
  • 1 June – First convicts arrive in Western Australia, ticket-of-leave transportation suspended in New South Wales.
  • 1 October - University of Sydney is founded as Australia's first university.
  • Births

  • 17 February - Alf Morgans, Premier of Western Australia (died 1933)
  • 26 April - James Drake, Australian politician (died 1915)
  • 12 May - Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia (died 1909)
  • 22 October - Charles Kingston, Premier of South Australia (died 1908)
  • Octavius Beale
  • Henry Lowther Clarke
  • John Cockburn
  • Matthew Henry Davies
  • Joseph James Fletcher
  • Lawrence Hargrave
  • Michael Kelly
  • Christie Palmerston
  • Mei Quong Tart
  • John A. Upton
  • Deaths

  • 9 February - Elizabeth Macarthur, co-founder of the wool industry in Australia. (born 1766)
  • 16 June - William Lawson, explorer and politician. (born 1774)
  • William Westall
  • Yuranigh
  • References

    1850 in Australia Wikipedia