1850 IN AUSTRALIA

''See also:''
1849 in Australia,
other events of 1850,
1851 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

Contents

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Births

Deaths

See also

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

★ Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy

★ Governor of Queensland - ''(office first formed in 1859)''

★ Governor of South Australia - Sir Henry Fox Young

★ Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison

★ Governor of Victoria - ''(office first formed in 1851)''

★ Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain Charles Fitzgerald.

Events

★ January 26 - Patrick O'Donoghue starts publishing in Hobart Town a weekly newspaper named ''The Irish Exile'', aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.

★ October 1 - The University of Sydney is founded.

Births

★ February 17 - Alf Morgans, Premier of Western Australia (d. 1933)

★ April 26 - James Drake, Australian politician (d. 1915)

★ May 12 - Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia (d. 1909)

★ October 22 - Charles Kingston, Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)

Deaths

★ February 9 - Elizabeth Macarthur, co-founder of the wool industry in Australia. (b. 1766)

★ June 16 - William Lawson, explorer and politician. (b. 1774)

See also

★ 1850

★ 1850s