1910 in Australia

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* Other events of 1910
* Federal election
* Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1910 in Australia.

1910 in Australia

Monarch| Edward VII, then George V
Governor-General| William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
Prime minister| Alfred Deakin, then Andrew Fisher
Population| 4,367,405
Elections| Federal, South Australia, New South Wales

## Incumbents

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Alfred Deakin

Andrew Fisher

* Monarch – Edward VII (until 6 May), then George V
* Governor-General – William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
* Prime Minister – Alfred Deakin (until 29 April), then Andrew Fisher
* Chief Justice – Samuel Griffith

### State premiers

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* Premier of New South Wales – Charles Wade (until 1 October), then James McGowen
* Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake (until 3 June), then John Verran
* Premier of Queensland – William Kidston
* Premier of Tasmania – Sir Neil Elliott Lewis
* Premier of Western Australia – Sir Newton Moore (until 16 September), then Frank Wilson
* Premier of Victoria – John Murray

### State governors

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* Governor of New South Wales – Frederic Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford
* Governor of South Australia – Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet
* Governor of Queensland – Sir William MacGregor
* Governor of Tasmania – Major General Sir Harry Barron
* Governor of Western Australia – Sir Gerald Strickland
* Governor of Victoria – Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael

## Events

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* 21 March – Harry Houdini achieves one of the first powered flights in Australia.
* 13 April – A referendum is held into alteration of the Australian Constitution regarding state debt and surplus revenue. The state debt question was carried, the surplus revenue question was not.[1]
* 6 May – Edward VII dies, his son George V becomes King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions.
* 16 September – The Australian Treasury is given authority to issue currency, replacing the use of the British Pound.
* 16 November – The Northern Territory Acceptance Act 1910 receives Royal Assent from the Governor-General, transferring the Northern Territory from the control of South Australia to the Commonwealth.[2]
* 19 November – A cyclone strikes the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing 40 people and destroying 20 houses.[3]
* 25 November – The Royal Australian Navy is created with the passing of the Australian Naval Defence Act by the Federal Parliament. The destroyers HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Yarra arrive in Australia.
* 8 December – Geelong, Victoria is declared a city.
* Founding of Employers Mutual Limited.

## Science and technology

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Dethridge wheel in 1936 – Victoria Australia

* Dethridge wheel developed – used to measure flow of irrigation water delivered to farms

## Arts and literature

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'The Rivals Waltz' 1910 by Bert Rache

Main article: 1910 in Australian literature

* Henry Handel Richardson's novel The Getting of Wisdom published

## Sport

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* Comedy King wins the Melbourne Cup
* South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield
* The Great Britain rugby league team went on their first tour of Australasia and defeated Australia to win the Ashes.
* 17 September – The 1910 NSWRFL season culminates in a grand final between South Sydney and Newtown which is drawn 4 – 4. Newtown are crowned premiers by virtue of being minor premiers.

## Births

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* 11 January – Shane Paltridge (died 1966), politician
* 13 January – Dexter Kruger (died 2021), Australian supercentenarian and oldest verified man in Australian history
* 28 January – Jim Willis (died 1995), botanist
* 7 April – Alec Downer (died 1981), politician
* 10 April – Bob Marshall (died 2004), billiards champion
* 17 April – Ivan Goff (died 1999), screenwriter
* 2 May – Laurie Nash (died 1986), cricketer and footballer
* 11 May – John Béchervaise (died 1998), Antarctic explorer
* 6 July – John Knott (died 1999), public servant
* 16 July – Stan McCabe (died 1968), cricketer
* 22 July – Alan Moorehead (died 1983), war correspondent
* 22 August – Kenneth McIntyre (died 2004), historian and mathematician
* 28 August – Kathleen Best (died 1957), first director of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
* 28 August – Tom Burke (died 1973), politician
* 24 September – Douglas Darby (died 1985), politician
* 1 October – José Enrique Moyal, Palestinian-born mathematical physicist (died 1998)
* 14 November - Ern Milliken (died 1992), cyclist

## Deaths

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Anderson Dawson

* 4 January – Sir Frederick Darley, 6th Chief Justice of New South Wales (born in Ireland and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1830)
* 18 January – James Cuthbertson, poet and schoolteacher (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1851)
* 29 January – Sir Charles Todd, astronomer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1826)
* 10 March – Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate (born in the United Kingdom and died in France) (b. 1852)
* 15 March – Thomas Skene, Victorian politician (b. 1845)
* 19 March – James Smith, journalist and encyclopedist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1820)
* 3 April – Catherine Helen Spence, writer and suffragist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1825)
* 25 April – Edward William O'Sullivan, New South Wales politician and journalist (b. 1846)
* 27 May – George Britton Halford, anatomist and physiologist (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1824)
* 25 June – Field Flowers Goe, Anglican bishop (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1832)
* 7 July – Guglielmo Enrico Lardelli, composer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1857)
* 20 July – Anderson Dawson, 14th Premier of Queensland (b. 1863)
* 13 August \- Micky Dore, rugby league and rugby union footballer (b. 1883)
* 22 August – Joey Palmer, cricketer (b. 1859)
* 26 August – Thomas Petrie, explorer, prospector and grazier (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1831)
* 30 August – George Throssell, 2nd Premier of Western Australia (born in Ireland) (b. 1840)
* 23 September – Tup Scott, cricketer (b. 1858)
* 14 November – Charles Gregory, cricketer (b. 1878)

## See also

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* List of Australian films of the 1910s

## References

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1. ^ Referendum results 1910, Parliament of Australia.
2. ^ Northern Territory Acceptance Act 1910 (Cth) Archived 12 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, National Archives of Australia.
3. ^ Climate of Broome Archived 15 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Bureau of Meteorology (Australia).

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