1887 in Australia

1887 in Australia

"See also:"
1886 in Australia,
other events of 1887,
1888 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

*Premier of New South Wales - Patrick Jenning (til January 19) then Henry Parkes
*Premier of South Australia - John Downer (til June 11) then Thomas Playford II
*Premier of Queensland - Samuel Griffith
*Premier of Tasmania - James Agnew (til March 29) then Philip Fysh
*Premier of Victoria - Duncan Gillies
*Governor of the Crown Colony of Western Australia - Sir Frederick Broome

Events

* January 1 - Clement Wragge is appointed Government Meteorologist for Queensland
* January 21 - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
* March 23 - 81 miners are killed during a coal gas explosion at Bulli, New South Wales
* April 22 - A cyclone hits a pearling fleet off Eighty Mile Beach, 120 men drown.

cience & Technology

*Construction of Goulburn Weir commenced, one of Australia's earliest irrigation schemes.

port

* "Dunlop" wins the Melbourne Cup

Births

* February 2 - Pat Sullivan, film director (d. 1933)
* April 16 - Henry Gordon Bennett, soldier (d. 1962)

Deaths

ee also

*1887
*1800s


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