1855 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1855 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Richard MacDonnell (from 8 June)
- Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land – Henry Young (from 8 January)
- Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (Governor of Victoria from 22 May) – Sir Charles Hotham (until 10 November)
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald
Events
- 8 September – Queen Victoria signs an Order in Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.
Births
- 28 May – William Portus Cullen, judge and politician (died 1935)
- 28 October – Francis James Gillen, an early anthropologist who studied Indigenous culture.
Deaths
- 3 April – John Bateman, Fremantle pioneer, merchant and whaler (b. 1789)
- 23 January – John Burdett Wittenoom, Swan River Colony clergyman (b. 1788)
- 31 December – Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria (b. 1806)
- 19 March – Thomas Bock, artist (b. 1790)