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Other events of 1847
Timeline of Australian history
The following lists events that happened during 1847 in Australia.
Incumbents
Monarch - Victoria
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
Governor of South Australia - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke, then Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin (acting).
Events
15 July - St Peter's College, Adelaide is founded by members of the Anglican Church of Australia. Angus Cameron The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian Part One: Capital City Chronologies Angus & Robertson 1986 73 North Ryde, NSW 0-207-15232-2
28 December - Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England. Dirk van Dissel https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/short-augustus-4577 Short, Augustus (1802 - 1883) Australian Dictionary of Biography 6 Melbourne University Press 1976 122–123 24 February 2013
Science and Technology
June – Dentist, John Belisario becomes the first to use ether to anaesthetise a patient
Births
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12 February – Sir Albert Gould, New South Wales politician (d. 1936)
19 February – Josiah Howell Bagster, South Australian politician and land agent (d. 1893)
22 February – James Huddart, shipowner and businessman (d. 1901)
6 March – Edward Petherick, book collector and archivist (d. 1917)
13 March – Samuel Cooke, Victorian politician (d. 1929)
5 April – Frederick William Ward, journalist and newspaper editor (d. 1934)
7 April – John Arthur, Tasmanian cricketer (d. 1877)
23 May – Robert Etheridge Jr., paleontologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1920)
23 July – George Sydney Aldridge, businessman (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1911)
22 August – Sir John Forrest, 1st Premier of Western Australia and explorer (d. 1918)
3 October – Henry Montgomery, Anglican bishop (d. 1932)
8 October – Rose Scott, suffragette (d. 1925)
29 October – George Collingridge, writer and illustrator (d. 1931)
11 October – Alexander Bolton, New South Wales politician (d. 1918)
17 November – Archibald Liversidge, chemist (d. 1927)
10 December – Harry Boyle, Test cricketer (d. 1907)
Deaths
3 February – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, 6th Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1783)
11 February – Sir Andrew Clarke, 4th Governor of Western Australia (born in Ireland) (b. 1793)
25 May – Joseph Wild, explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1773)
11 June – Sir John Franklin, 4th Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (born in the United Kingdom and died in Canada) (b. 1786)
References
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