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Decades:

1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Premiers

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

Premier of New South Wales – James Farnell (until 20 December), then Sir Henry Parkes
Premier of Queensland – John Douglas
Premier of South Australia – James Boucaut (until 27 September), then William Morgan
Premier of Tasmania – Philip Fysh (until 5 March), then William Giblin
Premier of Victoria – Graham Berry

Events

8 January – Three hundred senior public servants are sacked in Victoria by the government of Graham Berry, on the grounds that as the appropriation bill had not been passed in the Victorian Legislative Council, they could not be paid.
20 May – One thousand unemployed men march up Collins Street, Melbourne, demanding relief work. Premier Berry agrees to construct sanitation works and thus employ two hundred men.
1 June – The clipper ship Loch Ard is wrecked at Mutton Bird Island, just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria; 45 die, only two lives are saved.
9 December – Ned Kelly and his gang lock 22 people in a storehouse on a sheep station near Euroa, Victoria. The next day they rob Euroa's bank.

Exploration and settlement

18 January – construction of The Ghan railway line starts in Port Augusta, South Australia
3 September – the Main Southern railway line, New South Wales reached Wagga Wagga, New South Wales in an attempt to lure Riverina trade away from Victoria.
European discovery of the Great Artesian Basin when a shallow bore near Bourke, New South Wales produced flowing water.
Walcha, New South Wales proclaimed a town.
The Brisbane suburb of Alderley, Queensland gained a post office.
District of Kingaroy, Queensland settled.
The railway system reached Morgan, South Australia which was proclaimed a town in the same year.
Quorn, South Australia surveyed and declared a town.
Charter of Snowtown, South Australia proclaimed.

Science and technology

8 January – The telephone is used for the first time in Australia in Melbourne.
The Sydney Mechanics' Institute, founded in 1843, becomes the Sydney Technical College
At Burnie, Tasmania, the Van Diemen's Land Company construct a 75 km wooden, horse-drawn, tramway to serve Mount Bischoff, at the time the richest tin mine in the world.

Arts and literature

Main article: 1878 in Australian literature

30 November – Advance Australia Fair first sung publicly at the Highland Society of NSW's annual Scottish concert in the Protestant Hall, Sydney.

Sport

22 April – The Stawell Gift is run for the first time on Easter Monday in April.
5 November – Calamia wins the Melbourne Cup.

Births

19 January – Don Cameron, politician (died 1962)
30 March – Harold Cazneaux, photographer (died 1953)
4 July – John McPhee, Premier of Tasmania (1928–1934) (died 1952)
1 October – Helen Mayo, medical doctor (died 1967)

Deaths

9 May – Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (born 1816), industrialist
14 August – Edward Henty (born 1810), pioneer settler
17 September – Randolph Isham Stow (born 1828), judge
22 October – Benjamin Babbage (born 1815), explorer
16 November – John Gardiner (born 1798), banker and pastoralist

Years in Australia (1788–present)

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1878 in Oceania

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