• Source: 1860 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1860 in Australia.




Incumbents






= Governors

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Governors of the Australian colonies:

Governor of New South Wales – Sir William Denison
Governor of Queensland – Sir George Bowen
Governor of South Australia – Sir Richard G. MacDonnell
Governor of Tasmania – Sir Henry Young
Governor of Victoria – Sir Henry Barkly
Governor of Western Australia – Sir Arthur Kennedy.




= Premiers

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Premiers of the Australian colonies:

Premier of New South Wales – William Forster until 8 March then John Robertson
Premier of Queensland – Robert Herbert
Premier of South Australia – Richard Hanson until 9 May then Thomas Reynolds
Premier of Tasmania – Francis Smith until 1 November then William Weston
Premier of Victoria – William Nicholson until 26 November then Richard Heales




Events


20 August – Burke and Wills expedition sets off from Royal Park, Melbourne at about 4pm watched by around 15,000 spectators.
12 November – The Victorian College for the Deaf is opened in a small house in Peel Street Windsor.
12 December – Initial riots on the Lambing Flat goldfields near present-day Young, New South Wales.




Arts and literature






Births



6 April – Henry Willis, New South Wales politician (d. 1950)
20 June – Jack Worrall, Australian rules footballer (Fitzroy), cricketer and journalist (d. 1937)
23 June – Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, evolutionary biologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1929)
27 July – Carty Salmon, Victorian politician (d. 1917)
25 August – Charles McDonald, Queensland politician (d. 1925)
6 September – May Jordan McConnel, trade unionist and suffragist (d. 1929)
25 September – John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, 1st Governor-General of Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1908)
7 November – Edward Millen, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
18 November – Charles Kenningham, opera singer and actor (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
7 December – Sir Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
Unknown – Thomas Kennedy, Victorian politician (d. 1929)




Deaths


31 March – Frederick Irwin, Acting Governor of Western Australia (born in Ireland and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1794)
1 July – Robert Thomas, newspaper proprietor (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1781)




References

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• 1860 in Australia
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• Grammar Schools Act 1860
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• Roderic O'Connor
• Lambing Flat riots
• List of Australian capital cities
• 1860 in art
• Demographics of Australia