1853 in Australia

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See also: 1850 in Australia, 1851 in Australia, 1852 in Australia, 1853 in Australia, other events of 1853, 1854 in Australia, and the Timeline of Australian history.

Contents 1 Incumbents 1.1 Governors 2 Events 3 Exploration and Settlement 4 Science & Technology 5 Sport 6 See also

[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
• Governor of Queensland - (office first formed in 1859)
• Governor of South Australia - Sir Henry Young
• Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
• Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria - Charles La Trobe
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain Charles Fitzgerald

[edit] Events

This was a year of intense political agitation by miners on the Victorian goldfields.

• January 8 - Victoria Police formally established by Act of Parliament
• January 22 - University of Melbourne formally established by Act of Parliament
• March 17 - St Kilda Road robberies
• August 1 - The Bendigo Petition, 30 metres long with at least 23,000 signatures requesting reform of the license fee system that applied to miners on the gold fields, was sent to Governor La Trobe in Melbourne.
• August 10 - A Jubilee Festival was held in Hobart to mark the cessation of convict transportation to the colony.
• August 15 - the term Bunyip aristocracy was coined by Daniel Deniehy in a speech attacking the proposal by William Wentworth to create a system of hereditary peerage in Australia
• October 3 - Illawarra Steam Navigation Company incorporated
• November 1 - The first postage stamps of Tasmania are issued.
• December - Victoria Police Gazette first published
• Hardy Wine Company established

[edit] Exploration and Settlement

• European settlement began at:
• Cleve, South Australia
• Dongara, Western Australia
• Nailsworth, South Australia

[edit] Science & Technology

• January 10 - the Adelaide Philosophical Society founded, predecessor of the Royal Society of South Australia

[edit] Sport

• September 23 - occupancy of the present site of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was part of a 'police paddock', was given to the Melbourne Cricket Club by Lieutenant Governor Charles La Trobe. This followed the forced resumption of land from the then-15-year-old Club to build Australia's first steam train railway.
• The racehorse West Australian became the first horse ever to win the English Triple Crown in 1853. Despite its name it was in fact a British horse.

[edit] See also

• 1853
• 1850s