1875 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1875 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales â Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
- Governor of Queensland â Sir William Cairns
- Governor of South Australia â Sir Anthony Musgrave
- Governor of Tasmania â Frederick Weld
- Governor of Victoria â Sir George Bowen
- Governor of Western Australia â The Hon. Sir Frederick Weld GCMG, then Sir William Robinson GCMG.
Premiers
Premiers of the Australian colonies:
- Premier of New South Wales â Henry Parkes until 8 February, then John Robertson
- Premier of Queensland â Arthur Macalister
- Premier of South Australia â Arthur Blyth until 8 June, then James Boucaut
- Premier of Tasmania â Alfred Kennerley
- Premier of Victoria â
- until 7 August â George Kerferd
- 7 August - 20 October â Graham Berry
- starting 20 October â James McCulloch
Events
- 11 January â William Robinson arrives in Western Australia to become Governor of the colony.
- 13 January â Frederick Weld becomes Governor of Tasmania.
- 23 January â William Cairns becomes Governor of Queensland.
- 9 February â John Robertson becomes Premier of New South Wales, replacing Henry Parkes.
- 24 February â The SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off Ayr, Queensland and sinks with the loss of 102 lives.
- 24 May â J. V. Mulligan and party discover the Barron River in Queensland, they left Cooktown on 17 April
- 6 May â Ernest Giles and party leave South Australia for an overland expedition to Perth, they arrive on 10 November.
- 3 June â Premier of South Australia Arthur Blyth resigns and is replaced by James Boucaut.
- 7 August â Graham Berry becomes Premier of Victoria.
- 20 October â James McCulloch becomes Premier of Victoria for the fourth time.
- 24 December â 59 die when a cyclone destroys the pearling fleet in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia.
- Undated -
- Between 80 and 100 Arrernte (formerly known as Aranda) men, women and children are killed by a raiding party of 50 to 60 Matuntara warriors in the massacre of Running Waters.
- The 1875â1876 Australia scarlet fever epidemic begins in Victoria.[1]
Arts and literature
- New South Government establishes an art gallery in Sydney; it later becomes the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Sport
- Polo played for the first time in Australia at Albert Park in Victoria
- Soccer played for the first time in Australia at Goodna in New South Wales.
- Wollomai wins the Melbourne Cup; the cup was held on the first Tuesday in November for this first time this year
Births
- 20 March â Benjamin Fuller, theatrical entrepreneur (died 1952)
- 29 April â Margaret Preston, painter and printmaker (died 1963)
- 22 July â Leslie James Wrigley, academic, school inspector, principal, and teacher[2] (died 1933)
- 3 December â Max Meldrum, painter (died 1955)
Deaths
- 28 January â James Hurtle Fisher, South Australian pioneer (born 1790)
- 25 February â Thomas Reynolds, premier of South Australia (born 1818)
- 25 February â James Stokes Millner, medical practitioner (born 1830)
- 10 September â Silas Gill, Methodist preacher
- 20 October â Charles Cowper, premier of New South Wales (born 1807)
- 9 November â William Hovell, explorer (born 1786)
- 2 December â Charles La Trobe, lieutenant-governor of Victoria (born 1801)
Unknown date
- Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (born 1788)