1859 in Australia

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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.

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)

^ "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

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