1850 in Australia

Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	Other events of 1850; Timeline of Australian history;

The following lists events that happened during 1850 in Australia.

Incumbents

Monarch - Victoria

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

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]
Undated – The Port Phillip District Wars end
Undated – Between 15-20 Indigenous Australians are killed in East Gippsland as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Undated – 16 Indigenous Australians are poisoned to death in Murrindal as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
Between 15-20 Indigenous Australians are killed in Brodribb River as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.

Science and technology

Bucolus fourneti - described by Étienne Mulsant

Births

7 January
- Joseph James Fletcher, biologist (born in New Zealand) (d. 1926)
- Robert Richardson, journalist, poet and writer (d. 1901)
29 January – Lawrence Hargrave, engineer, explorer, and inventor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1915)
1 February – Sir Matthew Davis, Victorian politician (d. 1912)
13 February – Michael Kelly, 4th Archbishop of Sydney (born in Ireland) (d. 1940)
17 February – Alf Morgans, 4th Premier of Western Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1933)
23 February – Octavius Beale, piano manufacturer and philanthropist (born in Ireland) (d. 1930)
25 April – William Knox, Victorian politician and businessman (d. 1913)
26 April – James Drake, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1941)
12 May – Sir Frederick Holder, 19th Premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
23 August – Sir John Cockburn, 18th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
7 September – James Stewart, Queensland politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1931)
22 October – Charles Kingston, 20th Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)
23 November – Henry Lowther Clarke, 1st Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)
3 December – Sir Richard Butler, 23rd Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1850)
21 December – Sir William McMillan, New South Wales politician and businessman (born in Ireland) (d. 1926)
Unknown – Christie Palmerston, explorer and prospector (d. 1897)
Unknown – Mei Quong Tart, merchant (born in China) (d. 1903)

Deaths

22 January – William Westall, landscape artist (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1781)
3 February – Samuel Stocks, jun., businessman in South Australia (born in the United Kingdom c. 1812)
9 February – Elizabeth Macarthur, pastoralist and merchant (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1766)
16 June – William Lawson, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1774)
3 September – Ikey Solomon, convict (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1787)
Unknown, possibly April – Yuranigh, guide and stockman (b. 1820)

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.

[NLA-1] "Old and Young Ireland Again". Launceston Examiner (Morning ed.). Tasmania. 22 May 1850. p. 4. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

[NLA2-2] "Important from Van Diemen's Land". South Australian Register. 2 March 1850. p. 2. Retrieved 24 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

[Munday-3] 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-4] 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.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t e Years in Australia (1788–present)
18th century	1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800
19th century	1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
20th century	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
21st century	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Timeline of Australian history

v t e 1850 in Oceania
Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue