1852 in Australia

Updated on Sep 30, 2024

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Decades: 1830s1840s1850s1860s1870s See also: Other events of 1852Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy

Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison

Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria - Charles La Trobe

10 February - the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.

1-2 April - The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay.

25 June - The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground.

4 July - Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.

11 October - The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.

19 January - Thomas Price

22 January - Elizabeth Farley

8 February - Malcolm McEacharn

14 April - John Quick, politician (died 1932)

20 July - William Creswell

10 August - Leonard Kimberly

12 August - Algernon Keith-Falconer

4 September - Edmund Banfield

18 September - Clement Wragge

20 November - Henry Hoyle, politician and co-founder of the New South Wales Rugby League (died 1926)

27 December - John Ferguson

date unknown

Johann Menge, South Australian explorer and geologist (b. 1788)

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