1849 in Australia

Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	Other events of 1849; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia.

Incumbents edit

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).^[1]
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.^[2]
May – A clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre.

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)

^ Currey, C. H. "Denison, Sir William Thomas (1804 – 1871)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
^ Munday, Rosemary, ed. (1991). "How Australia Began: Significant Dates in Australian History". The Bulletin Australian Almanac & Book of Facts 1992. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press. p. 3. ISSN 1038-054X.