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8 January - Arthur Macalister becomes Premier of Queensland for the third time.
10 March - Ernest Giles is the first European to explore and later names (12 March) the Petermann Ranges.
1 April - John Forrest leads an expedition from Geraldton, Western Australia across the Gibson Desert to the Peake telegraph station in South Australia.
15 June - Brisbane's first Victoria Bridge opens; it is lost in the 1893 Brisbane flood.
31 July - George Kerferd becomes Premier of Victoria.
28 September - Victorian Humane Society established; it later becomes the Royal Humane Society of Australasia.
6 November - University of Adelaide established by act of the South Australian Parliament; it opened in 1876.
Arts and literature
Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life is published in book form
Southern Rugby Union is established; renamed New South Wales Rugby Union in 1892
Haricot wins the Melbourne Cup
2 March - Gregan McMahon
3 March - Ada Crossley
17 September - Walter Murdoch
17 October - Lionel Lindsay
18 December - Craig Williams-Pig
1 February – Alexander Harris, soldier, teacher and author (b. 1805)
6 April – Michael Fenton, first Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (b. 1789)
17 May – Sir Roger Therry, jurist (b. 1800)
date unknown
Robert Menli Lyon, Aboriginal advocate (b. 1789)
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