1869 in Australia
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore
- Governor of Victoria – Sir John Manners-Sutton
- Governor of Queensland – Colonel Sir Samuel Blackall
- Governor of Western Australia – Sir Benjamin Pine (appointed, but not sworn in), Sir Frederick Weld (from September 18)
- Governor of South Australia – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet (from February 16)
- Governor of Tasmania – Charles Du Cane (from January 15)
[edit] Premiers
Premiers of the Australian colonies:
- Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson
- Premier of Victoria – James McCulloch (until September 20), then John Alexander MacPherson
- Premier of Queensland – Charles Lilley
- Premier of South Australia – Henry Strangways
- Premier of Tasmania – Sir Richard Dry (until August 1), then James Milne Wilson (from August 4)
[edit] Events
- January 9 – The British clipper ship Thermopylae arrives in Melbourne, having sailed from London in the record time of 64 days.
- February 5 – A large gold nugget, named The Welcome Stranger, is found at Moliagul, Victoria.
- February 5 - George Goyder establishes a settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.
- March 3 – William Lanne, known as "King Billy", the last full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal dies. His body is secretly dismembered and his skull removed while in the morgue, and Dr William Crowther, future Premier of Tasmania, is suspected as the culprit.
- March 5 – The New South Wales government declares that Saint Patrick's Day, St. Andrew's Day and St George's Day are no longer public holidays.
- March 24 – A fatal case of cholera is reported in Sydney.
- May 8 – The bushranger Captain Moonlite holds up a bank in Mount Egerton, Victoria.
- June 22 – Prince Alfred College opens in Adelaide, South Australia.
- October 18 – The Lithgow Zig Zag Railway was opened.
[edit] Science and technology
[edit] Sport
- November 2 – Warrior wins the Melbourne Cup.
[edit] Births
- January 20 – F. Matthias Alexander, actor (d. 1955)
- February 21 – Ernest Roberts, politician (d. 1913)
- March 10 – John Longstaff, war artist (d. 1941)
- March 23 – William Robson, politician (d. 1951)
- April 11 – John Patrick McGlinn, soldier (d. 1946)
- April 13 – Vida Goldstein, feminist and politician (d. 1949)
- April 27 – May Moss, feminist and suffragette (d. 1948)
- May 2 – Mark Davidson, politician (d. 1949)
- May 2 – Florence Stawell, classical scholar (d. 1936)
- May 14 – Percy Abbott, soldier and politician (d. 1940)
- May 15 – John Storey, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1921)
- May 18 – Harold William Grimwade, soldier (d. 1949)
- May 19 – William Gibson, politician (d. 1955)
- May 23 – George Beeby, judge, politician and author (d. 1942)
- July 11 – Peter McAlister, cricketer (d. 1938)
- July 21 – John McDonald, politician (d. 1934)
- August 6 – Marie Pitt, poet (d. 1948)
- August 7 – E. J. Brady, poet (d. 1952)
- August 8 – George James Coates, artist (d. 1930)
- August 28 – Albert Fuller Ellis, prospector (d. 1951)
- September 28 – John Hutton Bisdee, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1930)
- October 24 – Charlie McLeod, cricketer (d. 1918)
- September 30 – Ernie Jones, cricketer (d. 1943)
- December 7 – Frank Laver, cricketer (d. 1919)
- December 13 – John Shirlow, artist (d. 1936)
- December 21 – Albert Green, politician (d. 1940)
- December 29 – Bill Howell, cricketer (d. 1940)
[edit] Deaths
- March 3 – William Lanne, Tasmanian Aboriginal (b. 1835)
- May 9 – John Plunkett, Attorney-General of New South Wales (b. 1802)
- June 16 – Charles Sturt, explorer (b. 1795)
- September 4 – John Pascoe Fawkner, pioneer (b. 1792)
- November 6 – Charles Flaxman, chief clerk of South Australia (b. 1806)
