1888 in Australia

none February 2020 February 2012 December 2009 1888 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1888 Timeline of Australian history The following lists events that happened during 1888 in Australia. Incumbents Monarch - Victoria Premiers Premier of New South Wales – Henry Parkes Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith (until 13 June), then Thomas McIlwraith (until 30 November), then Boyd Dunlop Morehead Premier of South Australia – Thomas Playford II Premier of Tasmania – Philip Fysh Premier of Victoria – Duncan Gillies Governors Governor of New South Wales – Lord Carrington Governor of Queensland – Sir Anthony Musgrave (until 9 October) Governor of South Australia – Sir William Robinson Governor of Tasmania – Sir Robert Hamilton Governor of Victoria – Lord Loch Governor of Western Australia – Sir Frederick Broome Events 27 January – Centennial Park is opened in Sydney. 30 January – The Presbyterian Church of New South Wales establishes its first school, the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney. 1 July – "The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women" first published by Louisa Lawson, in Sydney. 1 August – The Melbourne Centennial Exhibition is opened. 4 October – Princes Bridge, Melbourne is opened. 9 October – Launceston, Tasmania is proclaimed a city. 25 October – The captain of the HMQS Gayundah, Henry Townley Wright, refuses to relinquish his command after being ordered to do so by the Queensland government. The Colonial Secretary orders Wright be dismissed from the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, and has him removed from the ship by Queensland Police.http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article6906611 THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT AND CAPTAIN WRIGHT. The Argus Melbourne 26 October 1888 2 March 2012 10 National Library of Australia Undated Excavation begins on the water supply tunnels beneath Fremantle Prison, in Western Australia. Australia’s 100th Birthday not there are colonies Australia is not a country until 1901 Arts and literature 1888 in Australian literature Angus & Robertson publish their first book, A Crown of Wattle, a collection of poetry by H. Peden Steel Sport 6 November – Mentor wins the Melbourne Cup. Births 12 January – Leslie Gordon Chandler, ornithologist (died 1980) 9 June – Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, illustrator (died 1960) 29 June – Squizzy Taylor, Melbourne gangster (died 1927) 8 August – Harold Page, military officer (died 1942) 28 August – Evadne Price, writer, actress and astrologer (died 1985) 18 September – Herb Gilbert, national rugby league team captain (died 1972) 31 October – Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer (died 1958) 14 December – Harold Hardwick, freestyle swimmer (died 1959) Deaths 21 February – William Weston (born 1804), Premier of Tasmania (1857) 30 May – Louis Buvelot (born 1814), painter 15 August – Robert Seddon (born 1860), British rugby union player 9 October – Anthony Musgrave (born 1828), Governor of South Australia (1873–1877) and Queensland (1883–1888) 28 October – William Bede Dalley, Australia's first member of the Privy Council.Nairn Bede Rutledge Martha Dalley, William Bede (1831–1888) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dalley-william-bede-3356 Australian Dictionary of Biography National Centre of Biography, Australian National University 21 March 2018 References 1888 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia