1849 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 - The Anti-transportation League was formed after public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania.
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1920)