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1870s
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Timeline of Australian history |
Premier of New South Wales - George Dibbs
Premier of South Australia - John Downer (until 16 June) then Charles Kingston
Premier of Queensland - Samuel Griffith (until 27 March), Thomas McIlwraith (until 27 October) then Hugh Nelson
Premier of Tasmania - Henry Dobson
Premier of Western Australia - John Forrest
Premier of Victoria - William Shiels (until 23 January) then James Patterson
30 January - The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893.
4 February - 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland.
14 June - Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms
Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria spends time hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia
Tarcoola wins the Melbourne Cup
Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield Shield
11 January - Charles "Chook" Fraser (died 1981), rugby league footballer and coach
13 January – Roy Cazaly (died 1963), Australian Rules footballer
8 October – William Morrison (died 1961), Governor General of Australia
2 December – Raphael Cilento (died 1985), medical administrator
9 December – Ivo Whitton (died 1967), golfer
4 September - Francis William Adams (born 1862), writer
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