1850 in Australia
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] 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 - 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 - Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
[edit] Events
- January 26 - Patrick O'Donoghue starts publishing in Hobart Town a weekly newspaper named The Irish Exile, aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.
- October 1 - The University of Sydney is founded.
[edit] Births
- February 17 - Alf Morgans, Premier of Western Australia (d. 1933)
- April 26 - James Drake, Australian politician (d. 1915)
- May 12 - Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
- October 22 - Charles Kingston, Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
[edit] Deaths
- February 9 - Elizabeth Macarthur, co-founder of the wool industry in Australia. (b. 1766)
- June 16 - William Lawson, explorer and politician. (b. 1774)
