1852 in Australia

none December 2025 February 2012 February 2020 1852 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1852 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1852 in Australia. Incumbents Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria – Charles La Trobe Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald. Events 10 February – the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.1852-02-11 The Argus. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4783173 2025-12-20 2 1–2 April – The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay.1927-09-24 THE NELSON ROBBERY. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article270765096 2025-12-20 Williamstown Advertiser 2 25 June – 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.1852-07-05 THE FLOOD AT GUNDAGAI. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12938135 2025-12-20 Sydney Morning Herald 2 4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia. 11 October – The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university. Births 100px|thumb|Thomas Price 19 January – Thomas Price, 24th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)https://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/Search/Member?type=member&id=3942 Mr Tom Price 2025-12-20 Parliament of South Australia 28 January – Louis Brennan, mechanical engineer and inventor (born in Ireland) (d. 1932)Sandow Mary Louis Brennan (1852–1932) Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brennan-louis-3048/text4483 2025-12-20 Canberra National Centre of Biography, Australian National University en 8 February – Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)Jones, Sir Eric Malcolm (1907–1986) 2018-02-07 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.40175 2025-12-20 Oxford University Press 10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.40175 subscription 26 March – Alexander Sutherland, educator, writer and philosopher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1902) 14 April – Sir John Quick, Victorian politician and lawyer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1932) 20 July – Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces (born in Gibraltar) (d. 1933) 12 August – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1930) 19 August – Edward Rennie, scientist (d. 1927) 4 September – Edmund Banfield, author and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923) 18 September – Clement Wragge, meteorologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922) 20 November – Henry Hoyle, New South Wales politician and rugby league administrator (d. 1926) 26 November – Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent (d. 1922) 27 December – John Ferguson, minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925) Deaths 21 May – James Mudie, officer, landowner and author (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1779) 29 June – Jeffery Hart Bent, judge (born in the United Kingdom and died in Guyana) (b. 1781) 16 October – George Evans, surveyor and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780) Unknown – Johann Menge, explorer and geologist (born in Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1788) References 1852 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia