1849 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia. == Incumbents == Monarch - Victoria === Governors === Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald == Events == 26 January – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League is formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand). 23 February – Public meeting in Perth calls for introduction of convicts to the help the colony's depressed economy, first consignment arrive in the following June. May – A clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre. == Births == 18 January – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (d. 1920) 11 February – Fred Bamford, Queensland politician (d. 1934) 26 March – Edwin Evans, cricketer (d. 1921) 27 July – Archibald Watson, surgeon (d. 1940) 8 August – Hume Nisbet, novelist and artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923) 17 August – William Kidston, 17th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919) 29 August – Sir John Sulman, architect (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1934) 22 September – Alexander Forrest, Western Australian politician and explorer (d. 1901) 24 September – Justin Foxton, Queensland politician (d. 1916) 5 November – Sir Lancelot Stirling, South Australian politician (d. 1932) 2 December – Frank Allan, cricketer (d. 1917) 28 December – Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922) == References ==