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The following lists events that happened during 1852 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
- Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
- Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria – Charles La Trobe
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
Events
- 10 February – the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.
- 1–2 April – The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay.
- 25 June – The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground. The flooding continued but no deaths occurred.
- 4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.
- 11 October – The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.
Births
- 19 January – Thomas Price
- 22 January – Elizabeth Farley
- 28 January – Louis Brennan
- 8 February – Malcolm McEacharn
- 26 March – Alexander Sutherland
- 14 April – John Quick, politician (died 1932)
- 20 July – William Creswell
- 10 August – Leonard Kimberly
- 12 August – Algernon Keith-Falconer
- 19 August – Edward Rennie
- 4 September – Edmund Banfield
- 18 September – Clement Wragge
- 20 November – Henry Hoyle, politician and co-founder of the New South Wales Rugby League (died 1926)
- 27 December – John Ferguson
Deaths
- Jeffery Hart Bent
- George Evans
- James Mudie
- date unknown
- Johann Menge, South Australian explorer and geologist (b. 1788)