1857 in Australia

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1857 in Australia

1854 • 1855 • 1856 • 1857 (1857) • 1858 • 1859 • 1860

Other events of 1857 • Timeline of Australian history

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir William Denison
• Governor of South Australia - Sir Richard MacDonnell
• Governor of Tasmania - Sir Henry Young
• Governor of Victoria - Sir Henry Barkly
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Sir Arthur Kennedy

Premiers

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

• Premier of New South Wales - Henry Parker to 7 September then Charles Cowper
• Premier of South Australia - Boyle Finniss, John Baker, Robert Torrens, Richard Hanson
• Premier of Tasmania - William Champ, Thomas Gregson, William Weston, Francis Smith
• Premier of Victoria - Dr William Haines, John O'Shanassy

Events

• 13 May - St Kilda railway station, Melbourne is opened.
• 4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria.
• 25 July - Matthew Blagden Hale is consecrated as the first Bishop of Perth in a ceremony at the Lambeth Palace Chapel.
• 20 August - The Dunbar is wrecked at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, killing 121 passengers.
• In Victoria, Australia, one adult male in 7 is Chinese.

Exploration and settlement

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Births

• 26 February – Alfred Waldron, Australian rules footballer (d. 1929)
• 21 March – Alice Henry, suffragist and trade unionist (d. 1943)
• 25 March – Francis Clarke, politician (d. 1939)
• 3 May – Robert Hutchinson, WA politician (d. 1918)
• 9 May – Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (d. 1935)
• 31 May – William Story, politician (d. 1924)
• 13 June – Hubert Newman Wigmore Church, poet (d. 1932)
• 14 June – Adolphus Taylor, journalist and NSW politician (d. 1900)
• 25 June – Louis Gabriel, photographer (d. 1927)
• 1 August – John Harry, Test cricketer (d. 1919)
• 7 September – John McIlwraith, Test cricketer (d. 1938)
• 19 September – John Livingston, politician (d. 1935)
• 14 October – Allan McDougall, Senator for New South Wales (d. 1924)
• 12 November – Samuel Mauger, politician (d. 1936)
• 2 December – Thomas Lavelle, politician (d. 1944)
• 5 December – Cyril Cameron, Senator for Tasmania (d. 1941)
• 21 December – Joseph Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales (d. 1932)

Deaths

• 10 May – John Busby (b. 1765), surveyor and civil engineer
• 10 August – Frank McCallum, bushranger ("Captain Melville")
• 29 August – Archibald Clunes Innes (b. 1800), soldier and pastoralist

See also

• 1857
• 1850s