1857 in Australia

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1857
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See also:
  • Other events of 1857
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The following lists events that happened during 1857 in Australia.

Incumbents

  • Monarch - Victoria

Governors

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Events

  • 13 May – St Kilda railway station, Melbourne is opened.[1]
  • 4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in the goldfields of the Buckland Valley, Victoria.
  • 25 July – Matthew Blagden Hale is consecrated as the first Bishop of Perth in a ceremony at the Lambeth Palace Chapel.
  • 20 August – The Dunbar is wrecked at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, killing 121 passengers.
  • 27 October – 12 people (11 settlers and 1 Aboriginal station-hand) are killed by Iman Aboriginals as they slept in the Hornet Bank massacre. It has been moderately estimated that 150 Aboriginal people succumbed in subsequent punitive missions conducted by Native Police, private settler militias, and by William Fraser in or around Eurombah district. Indiscriminate shootings of "over 300" Aboriginal men, women, and children, however, were reportedly conducted by private punitive expedition some 400 kilometres eastward at various stations in the Wide Bay district alone.
  • In Victoria, Australia, one adult male in 7 is Chinese.

Arts and literature

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "ST. KILDA RAILWAY". The Age. No. 800. 14 May 1857. p. 5. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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