1899 in Australia

1899 in Australia

"See also:"
1898 in Australia,
other events of 1899,
1900 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

*Premier of New South Wales - George Reid (until September 13) then William Lyne
*Premier of South Australia - Charles Kingston (until December 1), Vaiben Solomon (until December 8) then Frederick Holder
*Premier of Queensland - James Dickson (until December 1), Anderson Dawson (until December 7) then Robert Philp
*Premier of Tasmania - Edward Braddon (until October 12) then Elliott Lewis
*Premier of Western Australia - John Forrest
*Premier of Victoria - George Turner (until December 5) then Allan McLean

Events

* January 22 - Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation.
* March 4 - Cyclone Mahina strikes Bathurst Bay in Queensland. Approximately 400 persons are killed, and the pearling fleet is sunk. A storm surge of up to 14 metres sweeps 5 kilometres inland.
* April 24 - The 1,280 ton barque "Loch Sloy" hits rocks off Kangaroo Island and sinks, killing 31 persons.
* Colonial soldiers leave to fight in the Second Boer War.

cience & Technology

Arts and literature

* October 8 - The word "wowser" is first used by John Norton, editor of the Melbourne "Truth" newspaper.
* George Washington Lambert wins the Wynne Prize for landscape painting or figure sculpture for his landscape "Across the Blacksoil Plains"
* Dot and the Kangaroo, a children's book by Ethel Pedley, is published
* "On Our Selection" by Steele Rudd is published

port

* "Merriwee" wins the Melbourne Cup
* Victoria wins the Sheffield Shield

Births

* January 7 - John Collins (d. 1989), Chief of Naval Staff and High Commissioner to New Zealand
* January 17 - Nevil Shute (d. 1960), writer
* January 21 - Ernestine Hill (d. 1972), travel writer
* February 22 - Ian Clunies Ross (d. 1959), scientist
* March 7 - Eddie Ward, politician (d. 1963)
* September 3 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet (d. 1985), biologist and Nobel Prize winner
* September 24 - Sir William Dobell, artist, sculptor and painter (d. 1970)

Deaths

* February 21 - George Ferguson Bowen (b. 1821), Governor of Queensland
* April 13 - James Service (b. 1823), former Premier of Victoria

ee also

*1899
*1800s


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