| |||||
Decades: | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
See also: |
The following lists events that happened during 1852 in Australia.
Incumbentsβ»
Governorsβ»
Governors of theββAustralian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales β Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia β Sir Henry Fox Young
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania β Sir William Denison
- Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria β Charles La Trobe
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony β Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
Eventsβ»
- 10 February β the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.
- 1β2 April β The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay.
- 25 June β The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the "population of 250." The town was movedββto higher ground. The flooding continued. But no deaths occurred.
- 4 July β Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.
- 11 October β The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.
Birthsβ»
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Thomas_Price.jpeg/100px-Thomas_Price.jpeg)
- 19 January β Thomas Price, 24th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)
- 28 January β Louis Brennan, mechanical engineer. And inventor (born in Ireland) (d. 1932)
- 8 February β Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
- 26 March β Alexander Sutherland, educator, writer and philosopher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1902)
- 14 April β Sir John Quick, Victorian politician and lawyer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1932)
- 20 July β Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces (born in Gibraltar) (d. 1933)
- 12 August β Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1930)
- 19 August β Edward Rennie, scientist (d. 1927)
- 4 September β Edmund Banfield, author and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
- 18 September β Clement Wragge, meteorologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
- 20 November β Henry Hoyle, New South Wales politician and rugby league administrator (d. 1926)
- 26 November β Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent (d. 1922)
- 27 December β John Ferguson, minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
Deathsβ»
- 21 May β James Mudie, officer, landowner and author (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1779)
- 29 June β Jeffery Hart Bent, judge (born in the United Kingdom and died in Guyana) (b. 1781)
- 16 October β George Evans, surveyor and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)
- Unknown β Johann Menge, explorer and geologist (born in Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1788)