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1855 in Australia

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

See also:
  
Other events of 1855 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 Richard G. MacDonnell, CB
  • 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

  • 8 September — Queen Victoria signs an Order in Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.

    • Births

  • 12 July — David Angus, founder of Angus & Robertson, born in Thurso, Scotland.
  • 28 October — Francis James Gillen, an early anthropologist who studied Indigenous culture.

    • Deaths

  • 3 April – John Bateman, Fremantle pioneer, merchant and whaler (b. 1789)
  • 23 January – John Burdett Wittenoom, Swan River Colony clergyman (b. 1788)
  • 31 December – Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (b. 1806)
  • 19 March – Thomas Bock, artist (b. 1790)

    • References

    1855 in Australia Wikipedia
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