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1843 in Australia
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Other events of 1843
Timeline of Australian history
The following lists events that happened during 1843 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 – Captain Sir John Franklin
Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.
Events
Between 15 June and 3 July the 1843 New South Wales colonial election and Australia's first colonial election, was held .
July – Up to 150 Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men in the Warrigal Creek Massacre as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
12 September – The Battle of One Tree Hill was a conflict between European settlers and Aboriginals.
Undated – The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is started, using convict labour, it is completed in 1864, using free labourers.The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian Angus & Robertson 1986 0-207-15232-2 Cameron Angus North Ryde, New South Wales 8 Part One: Capital City Chronologies. A History of Sydney
Undated – The War of Southern Queensland begins between a coalition of Aboriginal tribes in South East Queensland, the "United Tribes", and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland it would be fought until 1855.
Undated – Lindeman's wine company, is founded in by Dr Henry John Lindeman (d. 1881) in New South Wales.
Science and technology
September – John Ridley builds his invention, a corn stripper-harvester, in Hindmarsh.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27445474 Necessity Is the Mother of Invention South Australian Register 9 September 1843 23 February 2013 2 National Library of Australia 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, New South Wales 0-207-15108-3
Births
11 January – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer (born in Ireland) (d. 1902)
2 May – James Garvan, New South Wales politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1896)
6 July – Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia (d. 1915)
24 July – Nathaniel Dawes, bishop (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
27 July – Joseph Vardon, South Australian politician and printer (d. 1913)
24 August – Boyd Dunlop Morehead, 10th Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
26 September – Joseph Furphy, author and poet (d. 1912)
1 October – Garnet Walch, writer, journalist and publisher (d. 1913)
9 October – Alexander William Jardine, engineer (d. 1920)
5 November – Sir Harry Rawson, 21st Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
25 December – Edward Ellis Morris, lexicographer and educationist (born in India) (d. 1902)
28 December – Ebenezer Wake Cook, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
Deaths
22 December – John Bigge, judge and royal commissioner (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)
References
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