1887 in Australia

none February 2020 February 2012 April 2019 1887 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1887 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1887 in Australia. Incumbents Premier of New South Wales – Patrick Jenning (until 19 January), then Henry Parkes Premier of South Australia – John Downer (until 11 June), then Thomas Playford II Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith Premier of Tasmania – James Agnew (until 29 March), then Philip Fysh Premier of Victoria – Duncan Gillies Governor of the Crown Colony of Western Australia – Sir Frederick Broome Events 1 January – Clement Wragge is appointed Government Meteorologist for Queensland 21 January – Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city. 23 March – 81 miners are killed during a coal gas explosion at Bulli, New South Wales 22 April – A cyclone hits a pearling fleet off Eighty Mile Beach, 120 men drown. 11 May – Ship Darling Downs with 7725 bales of Australian wool sinks at Nore after collision with Britanniahttps://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article190640023 Collision off the English Coast The Age 10,056 Victoria, Australia 16 May 1887 23 July 2024 5 National Library of Australia Perhaps SS Britannia (1882) 22 June – The Fremantle Town Hall is opened. 26 Sept – The Celtic Club Melbourne is formed and remains today as Australia's oldest Irish Club 19 October – The Sydney-bound steamer SS Cheviot is wrecked near Point Nepean, Victoria, claiming 35 lives. Science and technology Construction of Goulburn Weir commenced, one of Australia's earliest irrigation schemes.https://www.g-mwater.com.au/water-operations/storages/goulburn/goulburnweir Goulburn Weir Gouldburn-Murray Water 28 November 2023 Arts and literature 1887 in Australian literature Sport Dunlop wins the Melbourne Cup Births 2 February – Pat Sullivan, film director (died 1933) 16 April – Henry Gordon Bennett, soldier (died 1962) 6 July – Annette Kellerman, swimming celebrity (died 1975) 28 October – Herb Byrne, Australian rules footballer (died 1959) 30 November – Beatrice Kerr, swimmer, diver, and aquatic performer (died 1971) References 1887 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia