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Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald.

Events

26 January – The Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, starts publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue: aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.^[1]^[2]
5 August – Port Phillip (later called Victoria) established as a separate colony from New South Wales.^[3]
1 June – First convicts arrive in Western Australia, ticket-of-leave transportation suspended in New South Wales.^[4]
1 October – University of Sydney is founded as Australia's first university.^[3]
Undated – The Port Phillip District Wars end
Undated – Between 15-20 Indigenous Australians are killed in East Gippsland as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Undated – 16 Indigenous Australians are poisoned to death in Murrindal as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Between 15-20 Indigenous Australians are killed in Brodribb River as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.

Science and technology

Bucolus fourneti - described by Étienne Mulsant

Births

7 January
- Joseph James Fletcher, biologist (born in New Zealand) (d. 1926)
- Robert Richardson, journalist, poet and writer (d. 1901)
29 January – Lawrence Hargrave, engineer, explorer, and inventor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
1 February – Sir Matthew Davis, Victorian politician (d. 1912)
13 February – Michael Kelly, 4th Archbishop of Sydney (born in Ireland) (d. 1940)
17 February – Alf Morgans, 4th Premier of Western Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
23 February – Octavius Beale, piano manufacturer and philanthropist (born in Ireland) (d. 1930)
25 April – William Knox, Victorian politician and businessman (d. 1913)
26 April – James Drake, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1941)
12 May – Sir Frederick Holder, 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
23 August – Sir John Cockburn, 18th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
7 September – James Stewart, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931)
22 October – Charles Kingston, 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
23 November – Henry Lowther Clarke, 1st Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
3 December – Sir Richard Butler, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1850)
21 December – Sir William McMillan, New South Wales politician and businessman (born in Ireland) (d. 1926)
Unknown – Christie Palmerston, explorer and prospector (d. 1897)
Unknown – Mei Quong Tart, merchant (born in China) (d. 1903)

Deaths

22 January – William Westall, landscape artist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1781)
3 February – Samuel Stocks, jun., businessman in South Australia (born in the United Kingdom c. 1812)
9 February – Elizabeth Macarthur, pastoralist and merchant (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1766)
16 June – William Lawson, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774)
3 September – Ikey Solomon, convict (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)
Unknown, possibly April – Yuranigh, guide and stockman (b. 1820)

References

^ "Old and Young Ireland Again". Launceston Examiner (Morning ed.). Tasmania. 22 May 1850. p. 4. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Important from Van Diemen's Land". South Australian Register. 2 March 1850. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 13. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.

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