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1854 in Australia

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See also:
  
Other events of 1854Timeline of Australian history

Ned Kelly born Victoria Bitter first sold

Contents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

  • Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
  • Governor of South Australia - Sir Henry Young (term ended 20 December)
  • Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
  • Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria - Charles La Trobe; from June Sir Charles Hotham
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain Charles Fitzgerald

    • Events

    This was a year of intense political agitation by miners on the Victorian goldfields.

  • 4 July - Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.
  • 5 July - The Mercury was first published in Hobart.
  • 17 October - The Melbourne daily newspaper The Age was first published.
  • 29 November - The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Ballarat.
  • 3 December - battle suppressing the rebellion at Eureka Stockade

    • Exploration and settlement

  • 4 January - - Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovers the McDonald Islands.
  • 12 September - Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria Charles Hotham opens Flinders Street Station, the first city railway station in Australia.

    • Sport

  • 30 September - The first game of cricket is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

    • Births

  • 18 October - Billy Murdoch, regarded as the finest cricket batsman of his day, was born in Sandhurst, Victoria
  • Richard Thomas Baker
  • Henry Lefroy
  • Mungo William MacCallum
  • William Maloney
  • George Prendergast
  • Charles Riley
  • Edward Sugden
  • Thomas Waddell
  • Walter Withers
  • Edward Wittenoom

    • Deaths

  • 2 October – Benjamin Carvosso, first Wesleyan minister to preach in Australia (b. 1789)
  • George Arthur
  • Jackey Jackey

    • References

    1854 in Australia Wikipedia
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