1861 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1861 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir William Denison, then John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar[1]
- Governor of Queensland – Sir George Bowen[2]
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Richard G. MacDonnell[3]
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir Henry Young[4]
- Governor of Victoria – Sir Henry Barkly[5]
- Governor of Western Australia – Sir Arthur Kennedy.
Premiers
Premiers of the Australian colonies:
- Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson, then Charles Cowper[6]
- Premier of Queensland – Robert Herbert[7]
- Premier of South Australia – Thomas Reynolds, then George Waterhouse[8]
- Premier of Tasmania – William Weston, then Thomas Chapman[9]
- Premier of Victoria – Richard Heales, then John O'Shanassy[10]
Events
- 13 May – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales.[11]
- 30 June – Lambing Flat riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales[12]
- 6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.[13]
- 8 July – The Geelong College is established by Reverend Alexander James Campbell in Newtown, Victoria.[14]
- October – Robertson land acts passed by Parliament of New South Wales.[15]
Arts and literature
- 24 May – National Gallery of Victoria founded[16]
Sport
- 7 November – The first Melbourne Cup is held. It is won by Archer. (List of Melbourne Cup winners).[17]
Births
- 12 January – Jack Moses, outback bush poet (d. 1945)[18]
- 22 January – George Fuller, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1940)[19]
- 21 February – George Elmslie, 25th Premier of Victoria and first Labor Premier (d. 1918)[20]
- 10 March – John Longstaff, painter, war artist and five-time winner of the Archibald Prize (d. 1941)[21]
- 19 May – Nellie Melba, opera singer (d. 1931)[22]
- 11 June – Alexander Peacock, 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933)[23]
- 12 June – James Gardiner, Western Australian politician (d. 1928)[24]
- 13 June – Kate Dwyer, suffragist and labour activist (d. 1949)[25]
- 22 June – John Lemmone, flautist, composer and Nellie Melba's manager (d. 1949)[26]
- 2 August – Edith Cowan, the first Australian woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament (d. 1932)[27]
- 14 September – Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville, Victorian sculptor of public monuments (d. 1930)[28]
- 18 September – Dame Eadith Walker, philanthropist (d. 1937)[29]
Deaths
- 15 March – James Clow, Presbyterian minister and settler (b. 1790)[30]
- 28 June (estimated) – William John Wills (b. 1834) and Robert O'Hara Burke (b. 1821), explorers[31][32]
- 21 October – Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (b. 1788)[33]
References
- ^ Ward, John M. "Young, Sir John (1807–1876)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Governors of Queensland - Government House Queensland". www.govhouse.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Manhood, C. C. "MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1814–1881)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Previous Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania". Government House Tasmania. 31 January 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Sir Henry Barkly | British colonial administrator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Ward, John M. "Cowper, Sir Charles (1807–1875)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Moore, Tony (30 September 2017). "Queensland's first premier in 1859 was most likely gay". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Tregenza, Jean F. "Waterhouse, George Marsden (1824–1906)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Premiers of Tasmania". www.parliament.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Ingham, S. M. "O'Shanassy, Sir John (1818–1883)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Young man who saw stars". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "Lambing Flat Riots | Summary & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Erickson, Rica (1983). "The Unwanted". In Erickson, Rica (ed.). The Brand on His Coat: Biographies of some Western Australian Convicts. Nedlands, Western Australia: University of Western Australia Press. pp. 157–223. ISBN 0-85564-223-8.
- ^ "Municipality of Newtown, Victoria". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Boucher, Leigh; Russell, Lynette (2015). Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria. ANU Press. p. 192. ISBN 9781925022353.
- ^ Edwards, Geoffrey Robert; Victoria, National Gallery of (1998). Art of Glass: Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Macmillan Education AU. p. 11. ISBN 9780958574310.
- ^ "National Museum of Australia - Melbourne Cup". www.nma.gov.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Rutledge, Martha, "Moses, John (Jack) (1861–1945)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Ward, John M. "Fuller, Sir George Warburton (1861–1940)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ^ Jones, Barry O., "Elmslie, George Alexander (1861–1918)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Astbury, Leigh, "Longstaff, Sir John Campbell (1861–1941)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Davidson, Jim, "Melba, Dame Nellie (1861–1931)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Peacock, Sir Alexander James (1861–1933)". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ^ "Gardiner, James (1861–1928)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Gallego, Viva, "Dwyer, Catherine Winifred (Kate) (1861–1949)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Colligan, Mimi, "Lemmone, John (1861–1949)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ "Edith Cowan". Royal Bank of Australia. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Scarlett, Ken, "Baskerville, Margaret Francis Ellen (1861–1930)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ MacCulloch, Jennifer, "Walker, Dame Eadith Campbell (1861–1937)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 29 October 2020
- ^ Bradshaw, F. Maxwell. "Clow, James (1790–1861)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ "William John Wills". monumentaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "Burke, Robert O'Hara (1821–1861)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ Nairn, Bede. "Macarthur, Hannibal Hawkins (1788–1861)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
