1848 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 - 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
- February 17 - Louisa Lawson, writer, publisher and suffragette (d. 1920)
- February 24 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)
