1852 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1852 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales â Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia â Sir Henry Fox Young
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania â Sir William Denison
- Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria â Charles La Trobe
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony â Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
Events
- 10 February â the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.[1]
- 1â2 April â The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay.[2]
- 25 June â The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground. The flooding continued but no deaths occurred.[3]
- 4 July â Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.
- 11 October â The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.
Births
- 19 January â Thomas Price, 24th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)[4]
- 28 January â Louis Brennan, mechanical engineer and inventor (born in Ireland) (d. 1932)[5]
- 8 February â Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)[6]
- 26 March â Alexander Sutherland, educator, writer and philosopher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1902)
- 14 April â Sir John Quick, Victorian politician and lawyer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1932)
- 20 July â Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces (born in Gibraltar) (d. 1933)
- 12 August â Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1930)
- 19 August â Edward Rennie, scientist (d. 1927)
- 4 September â Edmund Banfield, author and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
- 18 September â Clement Wragge, meteorologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
- 20 November â Henry Hoyle, New South Wales politician and rugby league administrator (d. 1926)
- 26 November â Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent (d. 1922)
- 27 December â John Ferguson, minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
Deaths
- 21 May â James Mudie, officer, landowner and author (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1779)
- 29 June â Jeffery Hart Bent, judge (born in the United Kingdom and died in Guyana) (b. 1781)
- 16 October â George Evans, surveyor and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)
- Unknown â Johann Menge, explorer and geologist (born in Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1788)