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1886 in Australia

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Decades:
  
1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s

See also:
  
Other events of 1886 Timeline of Australian history

Premiers

  • Premier of New South Wales — John Robertson (until 26 February) then Patrick Jenning
  • Premier of Queensland — Samuel Griffith
  • Premier of South Australia — John Downer
  • Premier of Tasmania — Adye Douglas (til 8 March) then James Agnew
  • Premier of Victoria — James Service (til 18 February) then Duncan Gillies

    • Governors

  • Governor of New South Wales — Lord Carrington
  • Governor of Queensland — Anthony Musgrave
  • Governor of South Australia — William Robinson
  • Governor of Tasmania — George Strahan
  • Governor of Victoria — Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch
  • Governor of the Crown Colony of Western Australia — Sir Frederick Broome

    • Events

  • 25 January — The first assembly of the Federal Council of Australasia is held in Hobart.
  • 31 May — The SS Ly-Ee-Moon sinks off Green Cape, New South Wales, with the loss of 71 persons
  • 12 June — William Spence chairs a meeting of shearers in Ballarat, Victoria at which the Amalgamated Shearers' Union is formed, later part of the Australian Workers' Union.

    • Undated

  • Queen Victoria grants the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to the Clunies Ross family.

    • Arts and literature

  • Fergus Hume publishes The Mystery of the Hansom Cab

    • Sport

  • Arsenal wins the Melbourne Cup
  • England defeats Australia 3–0 in The Ashes

    • Births

  • 3 January — Arthur Mailey (died 1967), cricketer and journalist
  • 28 November — Margaret McIntyre (died 1948), politician

    • Deaths

  • 28 October — William Bede Dalley, Australia's first member of the Privy Council.
  • 4 November — James Martin (born 1820), Premier of New South Wales

    • References

    1886 in Australia Wikipedia
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