1855 in Australia

See also:

1854 in Australia, other events of 1855, 1856 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 South Australia — Sir Richard G. MacDonnell, CB
• Governor of Tasmania — Sir William Denison
• Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria — Charles La Trobe; from June Sir Charles Hotham
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony — Captain Charles Fitzgerald

Events

• 8 September — Queen Victoria signs an Order in Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.

Births

• 12 July — David Angus, founder of Angus & Robertson, born in Thurso, Scotland.
• 28 October — Francis James Gillen, an early anthropologist who studied Indigenous culture.

Deaths

• 31 December — Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria aged 48.

See also

• 1855
• 1850s