1849 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- 26 January â The Australasian Anti-Transportation League is formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand).[1]
- 23 February â Public meeting in Perth calls for introduction of convicts to the help the colony's depressed economy, first consignment arrive in the following June.[2]
- May â A clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre.
Births
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- 18 January â Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (d. 1920)
- 11 February â Fred Bamford, Queensland politician (d. 1934)
- 26 March â Edwin Evans, cricketer (d. 1921)
- 27 July â Archibald Watson, surgeon (d. 1940)
- 8 August â Hume Nisbet, novelist and artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
- 17 August â William Kidston, 17th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
- 29 August â Sir John Sulman, architect (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1934)
- 22 September â Alexander Forrest, Western Australian politician and explorer (d. 1901)
- 24 September â Justin Foxton, Queensland politician (d. 1916)
- 5 November â Sir Lancelot Stirling, South Australian politician (d. 1932)
- 2 December â Frank Allan, cricketer (d. 1917)
- 28 December â Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)