1844 in Australia

none February 2020 April 2011 1844 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1844 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1844 in Australia. Incumbents Monarch - Victoria Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt. Events 1 January – Australia's first ringing peal rang from the bells of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney February – public ferry service commences between Balmain East ferry wharf and the Australian Gas Light Company wharf at Millers Point, Sydney. 6 April – John Gavin is the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. Gavin, a fifteen-year-old apprentice, was found guilty of the murder of his employer's son, George Pollard.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article644987 Quarter Sessions The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal 6 April 1844 23 February 2013 3 National Library of Australia 12 September – The Royal Society of Tasmania was formed. It was the first branch of the Society established outside Britain. 29 September – Norfolk Island was transferred from the Colony of New South Wales to the Colony of Van Diemen's Land Undated – Port Augusta Warcnet Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline https://australianfrontierconflicts.com.au/timelines/timeline-of-australian-frontier-conflicts/ 2022-08-05 Australian Frontier Conflicts en-AU Undated – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men at Maffra as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres. Undated – Aboriginal Orphans Act 1844, is enacted in South Australia, whereby the Protectors of Aborigines was made legal guardian of "every half-caste and other unprotected Aboriginal child whose parents are dead or unknown".Aboriginal Orphans Act 1844, South Australia https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/aboriginal-orphans-act-1844/ 2025-11-05 Find and Connect en-AU Undated – Aborigines' Evidence Act 1844 permitting Indigenous South Australians to give unsworn evidence in Court. Undated – Aboriginal Girls Protection Act 1844, is enacted in Western Australia to prevent Aboriginal girls from leaving or running away from school or their employed service.Aboriginal Girls Protection 1844, Western Australia https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/entity/aboriginal-girls-protection-1844-2/ 2025-11-06 Find and Connect en-AU Undated – Wellington Convict and Mission Site, convict agricultural station and Aboriginal mission closed. Undated – The permanent first crossing of the Yarra River opens at the site of the now Princes Bridge in Melbourne. Exploration and settlement August – Charles Sturt explores the Stony Desert, fails to establish existence of an inland sea. Angus Cameron The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology Angus & Robertson 1985 12 North Ryde, NSW 0-207-15108-3 1 October – Ludwig Leichhardt leads expedition starting from Jimbour on the Darling Downs to Port Essington, Northern Territory, arriving in December 1845. Science and technology Penfolds winery is established in Adelaide by Christopher Rawson Penfold & Mary Penfold. The Wheal Watkins lead and silver mine commences operations in Glen Osmond, South Australia. Arts and literature A Vocabulary of the Parnkalla [Barngarla] Language, Spoken by the Natives Inhabiting the Western Shores of Spencer's Gulf, is compiled by Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann, a Lutheran missionary in South Australia. Letters on the Culture of the Vine, Fermentation, and the Management of the Cellar is published by botanist and vigneron, Sir William Macarthur. The Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List is first published by Charles Kemp and John Fairfax. Hawkesbury Courier newspaper commenced publication in Windsor, New South Wales by Geoffrey Amos Eagar. A painting of the Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land is completed by painter, John Skinner Prout. Louisa Anne Meredith publishes her book, Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, an account of her first 11 years in Australia. Births 100px|thumb|Sir William Lyne 3 January – Michael Rush, champion rower (born Ireland) (d. 1922) 24 January – Alexander Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908) 31 January – James McColl, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929) 7 February – Joseph Brown, Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925) 8 February – John McGarvie Smith, metallurgist, bacteriologist and benefactor (d. 1918) 26 February – Thomas Glassey, 1st Queensland Opposition Leader (born in Ireland) (d. 1936) 16 March – Thomas Blackburn, priest and entomologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1912) 28 March – Emma Howson, opera singer and actress (d. 1928) 17 March – Sir Henry Briggs, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919) 6 April Francis Bertie Boyce, clergyman and social reformer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931) Sir William Lyne, 13th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1913) 9 May – Thomas Macdonald-Paterson, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906) 11 May – Watkin Wynne, journalist, councillor and newspaper owner (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921) 16 May – Sir John Madden, 4th Chief Justice of Victoria (born in Ireland) (d. 1918) 28 June – John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish poet, journalist and escapee convict (born in Ireland) (d. 1890) 21 August – Carl Feilberg, journalist, newspaper editor and human rights activist (born in Denmark) (d. 1887) 26 August – J. C. Williamson, actor (born in the United States) (d. 1913) 27 August – Rosina Palmer (née Carandini), opera singer (d.1932) 30 August – William Tietkens, explorer and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933) 2 September – James Macfarlane, Tasmanian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914) 10 September – Abel Hoadley, businessman and confectioner (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918) 26 September – Charles Strong, preacher and minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1942) 29 September – Edward Pulsford, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919) 14 October – Sir John See, 14th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1907) 15 October – John Gavan Duffy, Victorian politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1917) 21 October – Joseph William Sutton, engineer, shipbuilder, inventor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1914) 22 October – Margaret Forrest, botanical collector (born France') (d. 1929) 13 November – Andrew Harper, biblical scholar and teacher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1936) 21 November – Ada Cambridge, writer and poet (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926) 14 December – Maggie Oliver, actor and comedian (d. 1892) 5 December – Sir Charles Mackellar, New South Wales politician and surgeon (d. 1926) Unknown – William Sawers, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1916) Unknown – William McMinn, surveyor and architect, (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1884) Unknown – Mary Jane Cain, community leader and Gomeroi woman (d. 1929) Unknown – Alfred James Daplyn, painter (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926) Unknown – Amy Jane Best, schoolmistress (d. 1932) Deaths 13 February – John Knatchbull, murderer, is publicly executed in Sydney (born in the United Kingdom) (b.1789) 30 April – George Jones, bushranger is publicly executed in Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1815) 19 May – Conrad Theodore Knowles, actor and theatre manager (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1810) 29 June – Sir John Jamison, New South Wales politician, physician and pastoralist (born in Ireland) (b. 1776) 8 July – John Terry, miller and farmer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1771) 14 September – Prosper de Mestre, businessman and merchant (born in France) (b. 1789) 27 September – Sir James Dowling, 2nd Chief Justice of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787) 22 October – John Charles Darke, explorer, died after being speared (born in the United Kingdom) (b.1806) Undated – Anna Josepha King, settler and First Lady of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1765) References 1844 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia