The following lists events that happened during 1859 in Australia.
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Incumbents edit
Governors edit
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir William Denison
- Governor of Queensland – Sir George Bowen
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Richard MacDonnell
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir Henry Young
- Governor of Victoria – Sir Henry Barkly
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Sir Arthur Kennedy
Premiers edit
Events edit
- 14 May – Melbourne Football Club is founded.
- 6 June – The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.
- July – Geelong Football Club is founded.[1]
- 5 August – The passenger steamship SS Admella is shipwrecked on a submerged reef near Mount Gambier South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
- 6 October – Thomas Austin takes 24 rabbits and 5 hares to Australia in order to release them there as a game. They will multiply exponentially.
- The first permanent educational institution for girls, the East Leigh, is founded in Melbourne by Elizabeth Tripp.
- Undated – A retaliatory mass-slaughter of Indigenous Australians occurs in the Hospital Creek Massacre.
Arts and literature edit
Births edit
- 24 March – Hugh de Largie, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1947)
- 23 April – Bella Guerin, feminist and suffragist (d. 1923)[2]
- 25 April – Joseph Maiden, botanist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
- 16 June – John Russell, impressionist painter (d. 1930)[3]
- 28 November – Richard Godfrey Rivers, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
References edit
- ^ "Detailed History". geelongcats.com.au. Geelong Cats. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
- ^ Kelly, Farley, "Guerin, Julia Margaret (Bella) (1858–1923)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2 February 2023
- ^ Galbally, Ann E., "Russell, John Peter (1858–1930)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2 February 2023