1850 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1850 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- 26 January â The Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, starts publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue: aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.[1][2]
- 5 August â Port Phillip (later called Victoria) established as a separate colony from New South Wales.[3]
- 1 June â First convicts arrive in Western Australia, ticket-of-leave transportation suspended in New South Wales.[4]
- 1 October â University of Sydney is founded as Australia's first university.[3]
- Undated â The Port Phillip District Wars end
- Undated â Between 15-20 Indigenous Australians are killed in East Gippsland as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
- Undated â 16 Indigenous Australians are poisoned to death in Murrindal as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
- Between 15-20 Indigenous Australians are killed in Brodribb River as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Science and technology
- Bucolus fourneti - described by Ãtienne Mulsant
Births
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- 7 January
- Joseph James Fletcher, biologist (born in New Zealand) (d. 1926)
- Robert Richardson, journalist, poet and writer (d. 1901)
- 29 January â Lawrence Hargrave, engineer, explorer, and inventor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
- 1 February â Sir Matthew Davis, Victorian politician (d. 1912)
- 13 February â Michael Kelly, 4th Archbishop of Sydney (born in Ireland) (d. 1940)
- 17 February â Alf Morgans, 4th Premier of Western Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
- 23 February â Octavius Beale, piano manufacturer and philanthropist (born in Ireland) (d. 1930)
- 25 April â William Knox, Victorian politician and businessman (d. 1913)
- 26 April â James Drake, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1941)
- 12 May â Sir Frederick Holder, 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
- 23 August â Sir John Cockburn, 18th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
- 7 September â James Stewart, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931)
- 22 October â Charles Kingston, 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
- 23 November â Henry Lowther Clarke, 1st Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
- 3 December â Sir Richard Butler, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1850)
- 21 December â Sir William McMillan, New South Wales politician and businessman (born in Ireland) (d. 1926)
- Unknown â Christie Palmerston, explorer and prospector (d. 1897)
- Unknown â Mei Quong Tart, merchant (born in China) (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 22 January â William Westall, landscape artist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1781)
- 3 February â Samuel Stocks, jun., businessman in South Australia (born in the United Kingdom c. 1812)
- 9 February â Elizabeth Macarthur, pastoralist and merchant (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1766)
- 16 June â William Lawson, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774)
- 3 September â Ikey Solomon, convict (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)
- Unknown, possibly April â Yuranigh, guide and stockman (b. 1820)