1848 in Australia
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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
