1844 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1844 in Australia.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Victoria
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
- Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.
Events
- 1 January – Australia's first ringing peal rang from the bells of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney
- 6 April – John Gavin is the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. Gavin, a fifteen-year-old apprentice, was found guilty of the murder of his employer's son, George Pollard.[1]
- 12 September – The Royal Society of Tasmania was formed. It was the first branch of the Society established outside Britain.
- Undated – Port Augusta War[2]
- Undated – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men at Maffra as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Exploration and settlement
- August – Charles Sturt explores the Stony Desert, fails to establish existence of an inland sea.[3]
- 1 October – Ludwig Leichhardt leads expedition starting from Jimbour on the Darling Downs to Port Essington, Northern Territory, arriving in December 1845.[3]
Births
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- 24 January – Alexander Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908)
- 31 January – James McColl, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
- 7 February – Joseph Brown, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
- 8 February – John McGarvie Smith, metallurgist, bacteriologist and benefactor (d. 1918)
- 26 February – Thomas Glassey, 1st Queensland Opposition Leader (born in Ireland) (d. 1936)
- 17 March – Sir Henry Briggs, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
- 6 April
- Francis Bertie Boyce, clergyman and social reformer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931)
- Sir William Lyne, 13th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1913)
- 9 May – Thomas Macdonald-Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906)
- 11 May – Watkin Wynne, journalist, councillor and newspaper owner (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921)
- 16 May – Sir John Madden, 4th Chief Justice of Victoria (born in Ireland) (d. 1918)
- 26 August – J. C. Williamson, actor (born in the United States) (d. 1913)
- 30 August – William Tietkens, explorer and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
- 2 September – James Macfarlane, Tasmanian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914)
- 26 September – Charles Strong, preacher and minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1942)
- 29 September – Edward Pulsford, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
- 14 October – Sir John See, 14th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1907)
- 15 October – John Gavan Duffy, Victorian politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1917)
- 13 November – Andrew Harper, biblical scholar and teacher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1936)
- 21 November – Ada Cambridge, writer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
- 5 December – Sir Charles Mackellar, New South Wales politician and surgeon (d. 1926)
- Unknown – William Sawers, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1916)
Deaths
- 29 June – Sir John Jamison, New South Wales politician, physician and pastoralist (born in Ireland) (b. 1776)
- 14 September – Prosper de Mestre, businessman and merchant (born in France) (b. 1789)
- 27 September – Sir James Dowling, 2nd Chief Justice of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)
References
- ^ "Quarter Sessions". The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal. National Library of Australia. 6 April 1844. p. 3. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ^ cnet. "Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline". Australian Frontier Conflicts. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ a b Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 12. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
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