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Timeline of Australian history |
8 March - John Douglas becomes Premier of Queensland
10 March - Cloncurry was established
15 March to 4 April - 1877 Australia v England series is played
1 April - A settlement on Thursday Island was established for the refueling of steam ships
8 June - Lutherans found the Hermannsburg Mission at Finke River in the Northern Territory
20 July - Arthur Kennedy becomes Governor of Queensland
9 August - Philip Fysh becomes Premier of Tasmania
17 August - John Robertson begins another term as Premier of New South Wales
11 September - Ships Avalanche and Forrest collide off Portland, Victoria, only 3 of the 107 passengers are saved
2 October - William Jervois becomes Governor of South Australia
26 October - James Boucaut becomes Premier of South Australia
12 November - Harry Ord becomes Governor of Western Australia
30 April - South Australian Football League founded.
17 May - Victorian Football Association founded.
17 January - May Gibbs
25 August - John Latham
8 October - Hans Heysen
14 November - Norman Brookes
25 March - Caroline Chisholm
2 April - W. H. Hayes
16 June - John Fairfax
18 July – Joseph Anderson, Norfolk Island administrator (b. 1790)
17 August - Martin Cash
16 September – Saxe Bannister, first Attorney General of New South Wales (b. 1790)
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