1846 in Australia

none November 2019 May 2011 1846 Australia Template:Year in Australia: Parameter 1=year required! Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 90px Other events of 1846 Timeline of Australian history Queen Victoria 293,249 The following lists events that happened during 1846 in Australia. Incumbents Monarch - Victoria Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps Governor of South Australia – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt, then Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke. Events January – Gold is found at the Victoria Mine near Castambul, in the Adelaide Hills February – The Peruvian is shipwrecked after running into a submerged reef off the coast of north-eastern Australia, the few survivors making landfall at Cape Cleveland. formation of "The South Australian League for the Maintenance of Religious Freedom in the Province" in response to the proposed funding of Church of England education from public fundshttps://books.google.com/books?id=CXrOAAAAMAAJ The History of South Australia from Its Foundation to the Year of Its Jubilee Hodder Edwin S. Low, Marston, Limited 1893 1 221–225 Google Books August – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are killed in the Blanket Bay massacre. 1 July – William Westwood, a bushranger, leads the Cooking Pot Uprising in the penal colony of Norfolk Island in response to the confiscation of convicts' cooking vessels under the orders of the Commandant of the penal settlement, Major Joseph Childs. 23 September – Explorer John Ainsworth Horrocks dies at Penwortham in South Australia, a month after he accidentally shot himself in a hunting accident. Jon Chittleborough Horrocks, John Ainsworth (1818–1846) Australian Dictionary of Biography: Supplement 1580–1980, with a Name Index to the Australian Dictionary of Biography to 1980 Cunneen Christopher National Centre of Biography, Australian National University https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/horrocks-john-ainsworth-12989/text23479 24 February 2013 2005 0-522-85214-9 13 October – Bushranger Lawrence Kavenagh is executed by hanging. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2944598 Norfolk Island The Courier (Hobart, Tas. : 1840–1859) 28 October 1846 3 National Library of Australia Undated – 14 Indigenous Australians are killed in South Gippsland as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres. Undated – 8 Indigenous Australians are killed by Captain Henry Dana and the Aboriginal Police as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres. Undated – Launceston Synagogue is consecrated. Science and technology Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is established in Melbourne Arts and literature 2 June – first editions of Melbourne's daily newspaper, The Argus; and of Brisbane's weekly newspaper, Moreton Bay Courier, are published. Sport February – Australia's first swimming championships are held at Robinson's Domain Baths. 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, NSW 0-207-15108-3 Births 4 January – John Neild, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911) 10 February – Sir James Burns, New South Wales politician, shipowner and philanthropist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923) 17 February – Sir John George Davies, Tasmanian politician, newspaper proprietor and cricketer (d. 1913) 17 March – Edward O'Sullivan, New South Wales politician and journalist (d. 1910) 24 April – Marcus Clarke, author (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1881) 4 May – Jack Want, New South Wales politician (d. 1905)Finn Paul 1990 12 A120426b 380-381 Want, John Henry (1846–1905) 24 February 2013 15 July – William Trenwith, 1st Leader of the Victorian Labor Party (d. 1925) 17 July – Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, explorer, ethnologist and anthropologist (born and died in the Russian Empire) (d. 1888) 7 August – William Spence, trade union leader and politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926) 27 August– Augusta Zadow, South Australian trade unionist (born Duchy of Nassau) (d. 1896) 28 August – G. H. Gibson "Ironbark", poet (born in England) (d. 1921) 26 September – Mary Hannay Foott "La Quenouille", poet and editor (born in Scotland) (d. 1918) 27 September – Sir Josiah Symon, South Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1934) 7 October – Charles Rasp, prospector (born in Germany) (d. 1907) 20 October – Sir William MacGregor, 11th Governor of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919) 7 November – Sir Stephen Henry Parker, 5th Chief Justice of Western Australia (d. 1927) 18 November – Lord Northcote, 3rd Governor-General of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911) 14 December – John Dunn, bushranger (d. 1866) 16 December – William Miller, athlete (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1939) Deaths 16 March – Henry Kable, convict and businessman (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1763) 20 March – Joseph Foveaux, soldier and convict settlement administrator (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767) 15 April – Robert Campbell, New South Wales politician and merchant (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769) 26 July – William Hutchinson, convict, public servant and businessman (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1772) 26 August – Esther Abrahams, convict (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1767/1771) 23 September – John Ainsworth Horrocks, pastoralist and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1818) 13 October – Lawrence Kavenagh, bushranger (born in Ireland) (b. 1810) 6 November – Yilbung, indigenous Australian resistance figure (b. 1815) 12 December – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, naturalist, artist and explorer (born and died in France) (b. 1778) 26 December – George Imlay, Scottish pioneer in Australia (born in Scotland) (b. 1794) undated – Munangabum, Indigenous Australian leader of the Dja Dja Wurrung people References 1846 in yes Australia Category:Years of the 19th century in Australia