1854 in Australia

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1854 in Australia

1851 • 1852 • 1853 • 1854 (1854) • 1855 • 1856 • 1857

Other events of 1854 • Timeline of Australian history

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
• Governor of South Australia - Sir Henry Young (term ended 20 December)
• 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

Events

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

• 4 July - Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.
• 5 July - The Mercury was first published in Hobart.
• 17 October - The Melbourne daily newspaper The Age was first published.
• 29 November - The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Ballarat.
• 3 December - battle suppressing the rebellion at Eureka Stockade

Exploration and settlement

• 4 January - - Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovers the McDonald Islands.
• 12 September - Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria Charles Hotham opens Flinders Street Station, the first city railway station in Australia.

Sport

• 30 September - The first game of cricket is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Births

• 18 October - Billy Murdoch, regarded as the finest cricket batsman of his day, was born in Sandhurst, Victoria

See also

• 1854
• 1850s