| ![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Flag_of_Australia.svg/90px-Flag_of_Australia.svg.png) | 1922 in Australia | | |
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The following lists events that happened during 1922 in Australia.
1922 in Australia |
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Monarch | George V |
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Governor-General | Henry Forster |
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Prime minister | Billy Hughes |
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Population | 5,569,889 |
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Elections | Federal, New South Wales, Tasmania |
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Incumbents
Billy Hughes State premiers
State governors
Events
Science and technology
Arts and literature
- 4 May – British author D. H. Lawrence arrives in Australia for a three-month holiday, where he will meet Mollie Skinner and write the novel Kangaroo.
Sport
Births
- 5 January – Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Defence Force (died 2001)
- 15 January – Eric Willis, Premier of New South Wales (died 1999)
- 23 January – Tom Lewis, Premier of New South Wales (died 2016)
- 21 February – Fos Williams, Australian rules footballer (died 2001)
- 24 February – Bill Morris, Australian rules footballer (died 1960)
- 14 March – Bob Bignall, soccer player (died 2013)
- 15 March – Hesba Fay Brinsmead, children's author (died 2003)
- 28 March – Neville Bonner, first Indigenous federal MP (died 1999)[2]
- 29 March – Mac Holten, Australian rules footballer and politician (died 1996)
- 30 March – John McLeay, Jr., politician (died 2000)
- 10 April – Nancy Millis, microbiologist (died 2012)
- 9 May – Col Hoy, cricket umpire (died 1999)
- 12 May – Arthur Gorrie, Hobby shop proprietor (died 1992)
- 27 June – Milton Clark, Australian rules footballer (died 2018)
- 7 July – Robert Raymond, filmmaker and television pioneer (died 2003)
- 29 July – Mac Wilson, Australian rules footballer (died 1996)
- 1 August – Pat McDonald, actress (Number 96) (died 1990)
- 23 August – Ronald Wilson, High Court justice (died 2005)
- 30 August – Lionel Murphy, Attorney-General and High Court justice (died 1986)
- 25 September – Ted Baldwin, politician (died 2008)
- 26 September – Leonard Teale, actor (died 1994)
- 7 October – Jim McCabe, Victorian politician (died 2019)
- 10 October – Tim McNamara, musician (died 1983)
- 1 November – James Rowland, Chief of Air Force and Governor of New South Wales (died 1999)
- 18 November – Una Hale, operatic soprano (died 2005)
- 4 December – Densey Clyne, naturalist, photographer and writer (died 2019)
- 6 December – Gordon Ada, microbiologist (died 2012)
- 20 December – Geoff Mack, country music singer (died 2017)
- 28 December – Lionel Bowen, politician (died 2012)
Deaths
Frank Tudor
Henry Lawson - 10 January – Frank Tudor, 6th Federal Leader of the Opposition (b. 1866)
- 14 February – Bertram Stevens, art and literary critic (b. 1872)
- 8 March – Elizabeth, Lady Hope, evangelist (b. 1842)
- 22 March – Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent (b. 1852)
- 4 April – Peter Waite, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1834)
- 7 April – James McGowen, 18th Premier of New South Wales (born in the Indian Ocean) (b. 1855)
- 14 April – Rose Summerfield, feminist and labour activist (died in Paraguay) (b. 1864)
- 24 April – Colin Campbell Ross, wine bar owner and falsely convicted murderer (b. 1892)
- 30 April – Robert Carl Sticht, metallurgist and art collector (born in the United States) (b. 1856)
- 24 May – James Arthur Pollock, physicist (born in Ireland) (b. 1865)
- 25 May – Roy Redgrave, actor (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1873)
- 31 May – Jørgen Jensen, soldier (born in Denmark) (b. 1891)
- 15 June – Alfred Cecil Rowlandson, publisher and bookseller (died in New Zealand) (b. 1865)
- 17 June – Sir Robert Philp, 15th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
- 11 July – Hans Irvine, Victorian politician and winemaker (died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1856)
- 23 July – Joseph Edmund Carne, geologist (b. 1855)
- 2 September – Henry Lawson, writer and poet (b. 1867)
- 17 September – Kate Rickards, trapeze artist and musical theatre actress (died in the Red Sea) (b. 1862)
- 26 September – Sir Charles Wade, 17th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1863)
- 4 October – Ellis Rowan, naturalist and illustrator (b. 1848)
- 27 November – Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1849)
- 17 December – David Lindsay, explorer and surveyor (b. 1856)
See also
References
- ^ Sherratt, Tim; Young, Victoria (June 1995). "1922 Solar Eclipse in Australia - Testing Einstein's Theory". University of Melbourne.
- ^ Millar, F. Ann (2010). The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. UNSW Press. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-86840-996-2.
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