1855 in Australia
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See also:
1854 in Australia, other events of 1855, 1856 in Australia, and the Timeline of Australian history.
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[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 Richard G. MacDonnell, CB
- Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
- Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria - Charles La Trobe; from June Sir Charles Hotham
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain Charles Fitzgerald
[edit] Events
- September 8 - Queen Victoria signs an Order-in-Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.
[edit] Births
- July 12 - David Angus, founder of Angus & Robertson, born in Thurso, Scotland.
- October 28 - Francis James Gillen, an early anthropologist who studied Indigenous culture.
[edit] Deaths
- December 31 - Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria aged 48.
