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The following lists events that happened during 1848 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe (to 2 August) then Sir Henry Fox Young
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin.
Events
- Letters Patent of Queen Victoria declaring Melbourne a city are read on the steps of St Peters, Eastern Hill church.[1]
- 13 February – The first non-British ship carrying immigrants to arrive in Victoria was from Germany; the Goddefroy. Many of those on board were political refugees and known as Forty-Eighters.
- 3 April – Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs. On that date he wrote a letter from MacPherson's Station, Cogoon.[2] Leichhardt had set off for Swan River.[3]
- 11 March – The Savings Bank of South Australia opens with a single employee, trading from a room provided rent-free.
- 29 August – The Cape Otway lighthouse in Victoria is lit for the first time.
Births
- 17 February – Louisa Lawson, writer, publisher and suffragette (died 1920)[4]
- 24 February – Andrew Inglis Clark, Tasmanian politician (died 1907)
- John Langdon Bonython
- George Chaffey
- John Winthrop Hackett
- John Heaton
- Edward Hutton
- Alexander Leeper
- Alexander Macleay
- Walter Madden
- John Mather
- William Shiels
- Edward Stirling
Deaths
- John Cadman
- Frederick Garling
- Maurice Charles O'Connell
- William Sorell
References
- ^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1986). "Part One: Capital City Chronologies". The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian. North Ryde, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 29. ISBN 0-207-15232-2.
- ^ "Poor Leichhardt". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). National Library of Australia. 14 July 1851. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ^ 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, NSW: Angus & Robertson. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
- ^ "Woman of Courage". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842–1954). National Library of Australia. 12 March 1932. p. 9. Retrieved 24 February 2013.