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The following lists events that happened during 1850 in Australia.
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
Events
- 26 January – The Irish Exile, a weekly newspaper, starts publishing in Hobart by Patrick O'Donoghue: aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.[1][2]
- 5 August – Port Phillip (later called Victoria) established as a separate colony from New South Wales.[3]
- 1 June – First convicts arrive in Western Australia, ticket-of-leave transportation suspended in New South Wales.[4]
- 1 October – University of Sydney is founded as Australia's first university.[3]
Science and technology
- Bucolus fourneti - described by Étienne Mulsant
Births
- 7 January
- Joseph James Fletcher, biologist, winner of the 1921 Clarke Medal (died 1926)
- Robert Richardson, journalist, poet and writer for children (died 1901)
- 29 January – Lawrence Hargrave, engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer (died 1915)
- 1 February – Matthew Henry Davies, speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (died 1912)
- 13 February – Michael Kelly, fourth Archbishop of Sydney (died 1940)
- 17 February – Alf Morgans, premier of Western Australia (died 1933)
- 23 February – Octavius Beale, piano manufacturer and a philanthropist (died 1930)
- 26 April – James Drake, Australian politician (died 1915)
- 12 May – Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia (died 1909)
- 23 August – John Cockburn, premier of South Australia (died 1929)
- 22 October – Charles Kingston, premier of South Australia (died 1908)
- 23 November – Henry Lowther Clarke, fourth Anglican bishop and first archbishop of Melbourne (died 1926)
Unknown date
- Christie Palmerston, explorer and prospector in North Queensland (died 1897)
- Mei Quong Tart, Sydney merchant (died 1903)
- John A. Upton, painter (died unknown)
Deaths
- 9 February – Elizabeth Macarthur, co-founder of the wool industry in Australia. (born 1766)
- 16 June – William Lawson, explorer and politician. (born 1774)
- William Westall
- Yuranigh
References
- ^ "Old and Young Ireland Again". Launceston Examiner (Morning ed.). Tasmania. 22 May 1850. p. 4. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Important from Van Diemen's Land". South Australian Register. 2 March 1850. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b Munday, Rosemary, ed. (1991). "How Australia Began: Significant Dates in Australian History". The Bulletin Australian Almanac & Book of Facts 1992. Sydney: Australian Consolidated Press. p. 3. ISSN 1038-054X.
- ^ 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, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 13. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.