1848 in Australia

1848 in Australia

"See also:"
1847 in Australia,
other events of 1848,
1849 in Australia and the
Timeline of Australian history.

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 - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe (to August 2) then Sir Henry Fox Young
*Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
*Governor of Victoria - "(office first formed in 1851)"
*Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin.

Events

* Letters Patent of Queen Victoria declaring Melbourne a city are read on the steps of St Peters, Eastern Hill church.
* February 13 - The first non-British ship carrying immigrants to arrive in Victoria was from Germany; the "Goddefroy". Many of those on board were political refugees and known as Forty-Eighters.
* April 3 - Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs.
* March 11 - The Savings Bank of South Australia opens with a single employee, trading from a room provided rent-free.
* August 29 - The Cape Otway lighthouse in Victoria is lit for the first time.

Births

*February 17 - Louisa Lawson, writer, publisher and suffragette (d. 1920)
*February 24 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)

Deaths

ee also

*1848
*1840s


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