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1861 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1840s1850s1860s1870s1880s

See also:
  
Other events of 1861Timeline of Australian history

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Contents

  • Governor of New South Wales - Sir William Denison, John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar
  • Governor of Queensland - Sir George Bowen
  • Governor of South Australia - Sir Richard G. MacDonnell
  • Governor of Tasmania - Sir Henry Young
  • Governor of Victoria - Sir Henry Barkly

    • Premiers

    Premiers of the Australian colonies:

  • Premier of New South Wales - John Robertson, then Charles Cowper
  • Premier of Queensland - Robert Herbert
  • Premier of South Australia - Thomas Reynolds, then George Waterhouse
  • Premier of Tasmania - William Weston, then Thomas Chapman
  • Premier of Victoria - Richard Heales, then John O'Shanassy

    • Events

  • 13 May - The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales.
  • 6 July - Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.
  • 8 July - The Geelong College is established by Reverend Alexander James Campbell in Newtown, Victoria.
  • October - Robertson land acts passed by Parliament of New South Wales.

    • Arts and literature

  • National Gallery of Victoria founded

    • Sport

  • 7 November - The first Melbourne Cup is won by Archer. (List of Melbourne Cup winners).

    • Births

  • 2 August - Edith Cowan, the first Australian woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament.

    • Deaths

  • 15 March – James Clow, Presbyterian minister and settler (b. 1790)
  • 28 June - Estimated death of William John Wills (born 1834) and Robert O'Hara Burke (born 1821), explorers.
  • 21 October – Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (b. 1788)

    • References

    1861 in Australia Wikipedia
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