1869 in Australia

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* 1870
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* 1840s
* 1850s
* 1860s
* 1870s
* 1880s

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* Other events of 1869
* Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1869 in Australia.

## Incumbents

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### Governors

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Governors of the Australian colonies:

* Governor of New South Wales – Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore[1]
* Governor of Victoria – Sir John Manners-Sutton
* Governor of Queensland – Colonel Sir Samuel Blackall
* Governor of Western Australia – Sir Benjamin Pine (appointed, but not sworn in), Sir Frederick Weld (from 18 September)
* Governor of South Australia – Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet (from 16 February)
* Governor of Tasmania – Charles Du Cane (from 15 January)
* Governor of Western Australia - Sir Benjamin Pine,[2] then The Hon. Sir Frederick Weld GCMG.

### Premiers

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Premiers of the Australian colonies:

* Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson
* Premier of Victoria – James McCulloch (until 20 September), then John Alexander MacPherson
* Premier of Queensland – Charles Lilley
* Premier of South Australia – Henry Strangways
* Premier of Tasmania – Sir Richard Dry (until 1 August), then James Milne Wilson (from 4 August)

## Events

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* 9 January – The British clipper ship Thermopylae arrives in Melbourne, having sailed from London in the record time of 64 days.
* 5 February – A large gold nugget, named The Welcome Stranger, is found at Moliagul, Victoria.
* 5 February – George Goyder establishes a settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.
* 2 March – After several days hiding in bushland near Bunbury, Western Australia, Irish political prisoner John Boyle O'Reilly escapes to America on the whaler Gazelle.
* 3 March – William Lanne, known as "King Billy", the last "full-blooded" Tasmanian Aboriginal man dies. His body is secretly dismembered and his skull removed while in the morgue, and Dr William Crowther, future Premier of Tasmania, is suspected as the culprit.
* 5 March – The New South Wales government declares that Saint Patrick's Day, St. Andrew's Day and St George's Day are no longer public holidays.
* 24 March – A fatal case of cholera is reported in Sydney.
* 8 May – The bushranger Captain Moonlite holds up a bank in Mount Egerton, Victoria.
* 22 June – Prince Alfred College opens in Adelaide, South Australia.[3]
* 18 October – The Lithgow Zig Zag Railway was opened.

## Science and technology

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* 1 May – A submarine telegraph cable is completed, joining Tasmania to the mainland.

## Sport

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* 2 November – Warrior wins the Melbourne Cup.

## Births

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* 20 January – F. Matthias Alexander, actor and author (d. 1955)
* 25 February – Staniforth Smith, Western Australian politician (d. 1934)
* 10 March – Sir John Longstaff, artist (d. 1941)
* 23 March – William Robson, New South Wales politician and businessman (d. 1951)
* 11 April – John Patrick McGlinn, public servant and soldier (d. 1946)
* 13 April – Vida Goldstein, suffragette and social reformer (d. 1949)
* 27 April – May Moss, welfare worker and suffragette (d. 1948)
* 2 May – Florence Stawell, classical scholar (d. 1936)
* 14 May – Percy Abbott, New South Wales politician, soldier and solicitor (d. 1940)
* 15 May – John Storey, 20th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1921)
* 18 May – Harold Grimwade, military officer, businessman and pharmacist (d. 1949)
* 19 May – William Gibson, Victorian politician (d. 1955)
* 23 May – Sir George Beeby, New South Wales politician, judge and author (d. 1942)
* 11 July – Peter McAlister, cricketer (d. 1938)
* 21 July – John McDonald, Western Australian politician (d. 1934)
* 6 August – Marie Pitt, poet and journalist (d. 1948)
* 7 August – E. J. Brady, journalist and poet (d. 1952)
* 8 August – George James Coates, artist (d. 1930)
* 28 August – Sir Albert Ellis, prospector (d. 1951)
* 28 September – John Bisdee, military officer (d. 1930)
* 30 September – Ernie Jones, Australian rules footballer and cricketer (d. 1943)
* 24 October – Charlie McLeod, cricketer (d. 1918)
* 2 December – Sir John Kirwan, Western Australian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1949)
* 7 December – Frank Laver, cricketer and baseball player (d. 1919)
* 13 December – John Shirlow, artist (d. 1936)
* 21 December – Albert Green, Western Australian politician (d. 1940)
* 29 December – Bill Howell, cricketer (d. 1940)

## Deaths

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* 3 March – William Lanne, whaler (b. 1835)
* 6 May – Henry Vincent, prison superintendent (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1796)
* 9 May – John Plunkett, New South Wales politician (born in Ireland) (b. 1802)
* 16 June – Charles Sturt, explorer (born in the British Raj and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1795)
* 4 September – John Pascoe Fawkner, Victorian politician and businessman (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1792)
* 9 November – Charles Flaxman, settler and landowner (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1806)

## References

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1. ^ "A List of Governors of New South Wales". www.parliament.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
2. ^ Although formally appointed Governor, Pine never actually came to Western Australia to take up his post; the role was filled by an administrator, Lieutenant Colonel John Bruce.
3. ^ Thornton, Katharine (2010). The Messages of Its Walls and Fields: A History of St Peter's College, 1847 to 2009. Wakefield Press. p. 7\. ISBN 978-1-86254-922-7.

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