1861 in Australia

none February 2020 May 2011 1861 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1861 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1861 in Australia. Incumbents Monarch - Victoria Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir William Denison, then John Young, 1st Baron LisgarWard John M. Young, Sir John (1807–1876) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/young-sir-john-4905 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 1 March 2019 Governor of Queensland – Sir George BowenGovernors of Queensland - Government House Queensland http://www.govhouse.qld.gov.au/the-governor-of-queensland/governors-of-queensland.aspx www.govhouse.qld.gov.au 1 March 2019 Governor of South Australia – Sir Richard G. MacDonnellManhood C. C. MacDonnell, Sir Richard Graves (1814–1881) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macdonnell-sir-richard-graves-4084 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 1 March 2019 Governor of Tasmania – Sir Henry YoungPrevious Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania https://www.govhouse.tas.gov.au/governor/previous-governors-and-lieutenant-governors-tasmania-old Government House Tasmania 1 March 2019 en 31 January 2017 17 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141117181342/http://www.govhouse.tas.gov.au/governor/previous-governors dead Governor of Victoria – Sir Henry BarklySir Henry Barkly British colonial administrator https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Barkly Encyclopedia Britannica 1 March 2019 en Governor of Western Australia – Sir Arthur Kennedy. Premiers Premiers of the Australian colonies: Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson, then Charles CowperWard John M. Cowper, Sir Charles (1807–1875) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cowper-sir-charles-3275 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 1 March 2019 Premier of Queensland – Robert HerbertMoore Tony Queensland's first premier in 1859 was most likely gay https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/queensland-s-first-premier-was-most-likely-gay-20170929-p4yw71.html Brisbane Times 1 March 2019 en 30 September 2017 Premier of South Australia – Thomas Reynolds, then George WaterhouseTregenza Jean F. Waterhouse, George Marsden (1824–1906) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/waterhouse-george-marsden-4806 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 1 March 2019 Premier of Tasmania – William Weston, then Thomas ChapmanPremiers of Tasmania http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/datasheets/Premiers_Table.htm www.parliament.tas.gov.au 1 March 2019 27 February 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100227004414/http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/DataSheets/Premiers_Table.htm dead Premier of Victoria – Richard Heales, then John O'ShanassyIngham S. M. O'Shanassy, Sir John (1818–1883) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/oshanassy-sir-john-4347 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 1 March 2019 Events 13 May – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales.12 May 2016 Young man who saw stars https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/how-john-tebbutt-an-amateur-stargazer-from-windsor-became-the-centre-of-the-worlds-astronomy-universe/news-story/7780200227eca261028abd023679afe9?nk=34f64d63f06c7ac787b9a2232125c0b4-1551442038 1 March 2019 www.dailytelegraph.com.au en 30 June – Lambing Flat riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South WalesLambing Flat Riots Summary & Facts event/Lambing-Flat-Riots 1 March 2019 en 6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.Q133820754 cs1 Erickson Rica Rica Erickson The Unwanted 157–223 Erickson Rica Rica Erickson 8 July – The Geelong College is established by Reverend Alexander James Campbell in Newtown, Victoria.Municipality of Newtown, Victoria https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/2308 1 March 2019 Museums Victoria Collections October – Robertson land acts passed by Parliament of New South Wales.Boucher Leigh https://books.google.com/books?id=_L-UCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA192 Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria Russell Lynette 2015 ANU Press 9781925022353 192 en 17 October – 19 white colonists, including Horatio Wills owner of station, are murdered in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre. It is the single largest massacre of colonists by Aboriginal people in Australian history. In the weeks afterwards, police, native police and civilian posses hunted down and killed up to 370 members of the Gayiri Aboriginal tribe. 6 November – First message sent via the newly completed Sydney to Brisbane telegraph line.Qld to NSW - the first line https://telegramsaustralia.com/Forms/Colonial/Queensland/Lines%20and%20admin/Qld%20first%20line.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250718170837/https://telegramsaustralia.com/Forms/Colonial/Queensland/Lines%20and%20admin/Qld%20first%20line.html 2025-07-18 telegramsaustralia.com Arts and literature 24 May – National Gallery of Victoria foundedEdwards Geoffrey Robert Victoria National Gallery of Art of Glass: Glass in the Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria 1998 Macmillan Education AU 9780958574310 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=laWX3BnLENgC&pg=PA11 en Sport 7 November – The first Melbourne Cup is held. It is won by Archer. (List of Melbourne Cup winners).National Museum of Australia - Melbourne Cup https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/melbourne-cup www.nma.gov.au 1 March 2019 en Births 12 January – Jack Moses, bush poet (d. 1945) 22 January – Sir George Fuller, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1940) 6 February – Sir Alexander Matheson, 3rd Baronet, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929) 21 February – George Elmslie, 25th Premier of Victoria (d. 1918) 10 March – Sir John Longstaff, painter and war artist (d. 1941) 19 May – Dame Nellie Melba, opera singer (d. 1931) 11 June – Sir Alexander Peacock, 20th Premier of Victoria (d. 1933) 12 June – James Gardiner, Western Australian politician (born in New Zealand) (d. 1928) 13 June – Kate Dwyer, educator, suffragist and labour activist (d. 1949) 22 June – John Lemmone, flautist, composer and manager (d. 1949) 2 August – Edith Cowan, Western Australian politician and social reformer (d. 1932) 27 August – James Ronald, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1941) 14 September – Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville, sculptor, water colourist, and educator (d. 1930) 18 September – Dame Eadith Walker, heiress and philanthropist (d. 1937) 6 October – Thomas Brown, New South Wales politician (d. 1934) 2 December – James White, sculptor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918) Unknown – Jim Page, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921) Deaths 15 March – James Clow, Presbyterian minister and settler (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1790) 28 June Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer (born in Ireland) (b. 1821) William John Wills, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1834) 21 October – Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur, New South Wales politician and businessman (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1788) References 1861 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia