1843 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1843 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- Between 15 June and 3 July the 1843 New South Wales colonial election and Australia's first colonial election, was held .
- July â Up to 150 Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men in the Warrigal Creek Massacre as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
- 12 September â The Battle of One Tree Hill was a conflict between European settlers and Aboriginals.
- Undated â The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is started, using convict labour, it is completed in 1864, using free labourers.[1]
- Undated â The War of Southern Queensland begins between a coalition of Aboriginal tribes in South East Queensland, the "United Tribes", and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland it would be fought until 1855.
- Undated â Lindeman's wine company, is founded in by Dr Henry John Lindeman (d. 1881) in New South Wales.
Science and technology
- September â John Ridley builds his invention, a corn stripper-harvester, in Hindmarsh.[2][3]
Births
- 11 January â C. Y. O'Connor, engineer (born in Ireland) (d. 1902)
- 2 May â James Garvan, New South Wales politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1896)
- 6 July â Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia (d. 1915)
- 24 July â Nathaniel Dawes, bishop (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
- 27 July â Joseph Vardon, South Australian politician and printer (d. 1913)
- 24 August â Boyd Dunlop Morehead, 10th Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
- 26 September â Joseph Furphy, author and poet (d. 1912)
- 1 October â Garnet Walch, writer, journalist and publisher (d. 1913)
- 9 October â Alexander William Jardine, engineer (d. 1920)
- 5 November â Sir Harry Rawson, 21st Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
- 25 December â Edward Ellis Morris, lexicographer and educationist (born in India) (d. 1902)
- 28 December â Ebenezer Wake Cook, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
Deaths
- 22 December â John Bigge, judge and royal commissioner (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)
