1845 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1845 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 (to 25 October), then Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt. == Events == 12 March – St John the Baptist Church in Reid Canberra is consecrated. 4 August – The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown. 9 May – F. H. Faulding & Co pharmaceutical company founded in Adelaide, Australia. 20 July – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia. 21 June – News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers. 17 December – Ludwig Leichhardt arrives at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs. Undated – Port Augusta War ends Undated – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are killed in the Darkey Flat massacre. Wool export in Australia – 24 million pounds. Hobart Synagogue building is completed in Hobart, Tasmania. == Arts and literature == True Love, or an Interlude Interrupted, play and comic farce is written. The Beautiful Squatter, a poem by Australian poet Charles Harpur is published. South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register is first published, 5 July 1845. == Births == 12 January – Walter Howchin, geologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1937) 11 February – John Chanter, New South Wales politician (d. 1931) 16 February – Maybanke Anderson, suffragette and reformer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1927) 17 February – Percival Ball, sculptor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1900) 25 February – Sir George Reid, 4th Prime Minister of Australia and 12th Premier of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1918) 20 March – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey, 17th Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915) 3 April – William Farrer, agronomist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1906) 7 April – Margaret McLean, Victorian temperance and women's rights advocate (born in Scotland) (d.1923) 15 April – Dave Gregory, cricketer (d. 1919) 16 June – William Charles Kernot, engineer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909) 21 June Henry Brockman, Western Australian politician (d. 1916) Sir Samuel Griffith, 9th Premier of Queensland and 1st Chief Justice of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1920) 10 September – Jessie Rooke, Tasmanian suffragette and temperance (born in United Kingdom) (d.1906) 19 October – Frank Hann, pastoralist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1921) 21 October – Ernest Favenc, explorer, journalist and author (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908) 15 December – Thomas Skene, Victorian politician (d. 1910) 30 December – Thomas Edward Spencer, writer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911) John and Sarah Makin - convicted of murders born. John William Lindt, ethnographic photographer and early photojournalist (born in Germany) (d. 1926) Brettena Smyth, women's rights activist born in Kyneton, Victoria. (d. 1898) == Deaths == 28 June – John Gilbert, English naturalist and explorer, killed during a violent altercation at Mitchell River (Queensland) (b. 1812) 5 August – John Blaxland, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769) Undated – John Kinchela, barrister, politician and judge (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774) == References ==