1894 in Australia

none February 2020 February 2012 October 2022 1894 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1894 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1894 in Australia. Incumbents Premiers Premier of New South Wales - George Dibbs (until 2 August) then George Reid Premier of South Australia - Charles Kingstonhttps://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kingston-charles-cameron-6966 Australian Dictionary of Biography - Volume 9: Kingston, Charles Cameron (1850–1908) John Playford 1969 adb.online.anu.edu.au Melbourne University Press 7 August 2017 Premier of Queensland - Hugh Nelson Premier of Tasmania - Henry Dobson (until 14 April) then Edward Braddon Premier of Western Australia - John Forrest Premier of Victoria - James Patterson (until 27 September) then George Turner Governors Governor of New South Wales – Robert Duff Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore Governor of Tasmania – Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson Events January - A cyclone hits the north west of Western Australia, killing approximately 50 persons 28 June - A Colonial Conference, held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, resolves to lay a telegraph cable between Canada and Australia. 22 October - Martha Needle is hanged in Melbourne Gaol for the poisoning of her husband, and three children, in an attempt to obtain money from insurance policies. 10 November - Jandamarra, an Indigenous Australian of the Bunuba people, leads one of the few armed insurrections against Europeans. 18 December - South Australia is the first colony to legislate women equal franchise with men, taking effect in 1895. The Australian Workers' Union is formed from the joining of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the General Labourers' Union. Arts and literature 1894 in Australian literature The novel Seven Little Australians is published by Ethel Turner Sport Patron wins the Melbourne Cup South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield Births 23 February – Harold Horder (died 1978), rugby league footballer 13 April – Arthur Fadden (died 1973), Prime Minister of Australia 30 April – H.V. Evatt (died 1965), politician 17 May – Raymond Brownell (died 1974), WW1 flying ace 14 August – Frank Burge (died 1958), rugby league footballer 25 August – Nick Winter (died 1955), athlete 20 December – Robert Menzies (died 1978), Prime Minister of Australia Deaths 17 February - John Alexander MacPherson (born 1833), Premier of Victoria References 1894 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia