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1857 in Australia

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See also:
  
Other events of 1857Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales - Sir William Denison
  • Governor of South Australia - Sir Richard MacDonnell
  • Governor of Tasmania - Sir Henry Young
  • Governor of Victoria - Sir Henry Barkly
  • Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Sir Arthur Kennedy

    • Premiers

    Premiers of the Australian colonies:

  • Premier of New South Wales - Henry Parker to 7 September then Charles Cowper
  • Premier of South Australia - Boyle Travers Finniss, John Baker, Robert Torrens, Richard Hanson
  • Premier of Tasmania - William Champ, Thomas Gregson, William Weston, Francis Smith
  • Premier of Victoria - Dr William Haines, John O'Shanassy

    • Events

  • 13 May - St Kilda railway station, Melbourne is opened.
  • 4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria.
  • 25 July - Matthew Blagden Hale is consecrated as the first Bishop of Perth in a ceremony at the Lambeth Palace Chapel.
  • 20 August - The Dunbar is wrecked at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, killing 121 passengers.
  • In Victoria, Australia, one adult male in 7 is Chinese.

    • Births

  • 26 February – Alfred Waldron, Australian rules footballer (died 1929)
  • 21 March – Alice Henry, suffragist and trade unionist (died 1943)
  • 25 March – Francis Clarke, politician (died 1939)
  • 3 May – Robert Hutchinson, WA politician (died 1918)
  • 9 May – Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (died 1935)
  • 31 May – William Story, politician (died 1924)
  • 13 June – Hubert Newman Wigmore Church, poet (died 1932)
  • 14 June – Adolphus Taylor, journalist and NSW politician (died 1900)
  • 25 June – Louis Gabriel, photographer (died 1927)
  • 1 August – John Harry, Test cricketer (died 1919)
  • 7 September – John McIlwraith, Test cricketer (died 1938)
  • 19 September – John Livingston, politician (died 1935)
  • 14 October – Allan McDougall, Senator for New South Wales (died 1924)
  • 12 November – Samuel Mauger, politician (died 1936)
  • 2 December – Thomas Lavelle, politician (died 1944)
  • 5 December – Cyril Cameron, Senator for Tasmania (died 1941)
  • 21 December – Joseph Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales (died 1932)
  • Arthur Green

    • Deaths

  • 10 May – John Busby (born 1765), surveyor and civil engineer
  • 10 August – Frank McCallum, bushranger ("Captain Melville")
  • 29 August – Archibald Clunes Innes (born 1800), soldier and pastoralist

    • References

    1857 in Australia Wikipedia
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