1852 IN AUSTRALIA

''See also:''
1851 in Australia,
other events of 1852,
1853 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

Contents

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Births

See also

References

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

★ Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison

★ Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria - Charles La Trobe; ''(office first formed in 1851)''

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

Events

★ February 10 - the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.

★ June 25 - The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground.

★ October 11 - The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.

Births

★ April 14 - John Quick, politician (d. 1932)

See also

★ 1852

★ 1850s

References