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1875 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s

See also:
  
Other events of 1875 Timeline of Australian history

Events

  • 11 January - William Robinson arrives in Western Australia to become Governor of the colony.
  • 13 January - Frederick Weld becomes Governor of Tasmania.
  • 23 January - William Cairns becomes Governor of Queensland.
  • 9 February - John Robertson becomes Premier of New South Wales, replacing Henry Parkes.
  • 24 February - The SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off Ayr, Queensland and sinks with the loss of 102 lives.
  • 24 May - J. V. Mulligan and party discover the Barron River in Queensland, they left Cooktown on 17 April
  • 6 May - Ernest Giles and party leave South Australia for an overland expedition to Perth, they arrive on 10 November.
  • 3 June - Premier of South Australia Arthur Blyth resigns and is replaced by James Boucaut.
  • 7 August - Graham Berry becomes Premier of Victoria.
  • 20 October - James McCulloch becomes Premier of Victoria for the fourth time.
  • 24 December - 59 die when a cyclone destroys the pearling fleet in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia.
  • Arts and literature

  • New South Government establishes an art gallery in Sydney; it later becomes the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  • Sport

  • Polo played for the first time in Australia at Albert Park in Victoria
  • Wollomai wins the Melbourne Cup; the cup was held on the first Tuesday in November for this first time this year
  • Births

  • 20 March - Benjamin Fuller
  • 29 April - Margaret Preston
  • 3 December - Max Meldrum
  • Deaths

  • 28 January - James Hurtle Fisher, South Australian pioneer (b. 1790)
  • 25 February - Thomas Reynolds
  • 25 February - James Stokes Millner
  • 20 October - Charles Cowper
  • 9 November - William Hovell
  • 2 December - Charles La Trobe
  • date unknown
  • Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (b. 1788)
  • References

    1875 in Australia Wikipedia