1859 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1859 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales â Sir William Denison
- Governor of Queensland â Sir George Bowen
- Governor of South Australia â Sir Richard MacDonnell
- Governor of Tasmania â Sir Henry Young
- Governor of Victoria â Sir Henry Barkly
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony â Sir Arthur Kennedy
Premiers
Events
- 14 May â Melbourne Football Club is founded.
- 6 June â The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.
- July â Geelong Football Club is founded.[1]
- 5 August â The passenger steamship SS Admella is shipwrecked on a submerged reef near Mount Gambier South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
- 6 October â Thomas Austin takes 24 rabbits and 5 hares to Australia in order to release them there as a game. They will multiply exponentially.
- The first permanent educational institution for girls, the East Leigh, is founded in Melbourne by Elizabeth Tripp.
- Undated â A retaliatory mass-slaughter of Indigenous Australians occurs in the Hospital Creek Massacre.
Arts and literature
Births
- 24 March â Hugh de Largie, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1947)
- 23 April â Bella Guerin, feminist and suffragist (d. 1923)[2]
- 25 April â Joseph Maiden, botanist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
- 16 June â John Russell, impressionist painter (d. 1930)[3]
- 28 November â Richard Godfrey Rivers, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)