The following lists events that happened during 1887 in Australia.

1887
in
Australia

Decades:
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Incumbents

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Events

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  • 1 January – Clement Wragge is appointed Government Meteorologist for Queensland
  • 21 January – Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
  • 23 March – 81 miners are killed during a coal gas explosion at Bulli, New South Wales
  • 22 April – A cyclone hits a pearling fleet off Eighty Mile Beach, 120 men drown.
  • 11 May – Ship Darling Downs with 7725 bales of Australian wool sinks at Nore after collision with Britannia[1]
  • 22 June – The Fremantle Town Hall is opened.
  • 26 Sept – The Celtic Club Melbourne is formed and remains today as Australia's oldest Irish Club
  • 19 October – The Sydney-bound steamer SS Cheviot is wrecked near Point Nepean, Victoria, claiming 35 lives.

Science and technology

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Arts and literature

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Sport

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Births

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  • 2 February – Pat Sullivan, film director (died 1933)
  • 16 April – Henry Gordon Bennett, soldier (died 1962)
  • 6 July – Annette Kellerman, swimming celebrity (died 1975)
  • 28 October – Herb Byrne, Australian rules footballer (died 1959)
  • 30 November – Beatrice Kerr, swimmer, diver, and aquatic performer (died 1971)

Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ "Collision off the English Coast". The Age. No. 10, 056. Victoria, Australia. 16 May 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 23 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia. Perhaps SS Britannia (1882)
  2. ^ "Goulburn Weir". Gouldburn-Murray Water. Retrieved 28 November 2023.