• Source: 1875 in Australia

      • The following lists events that happened during 1875 in Australia.


      Incumbents


      Monarch - Victoria


      = Governors

      =
      Governors of the Australian colonies:

      Governor of New South Wales – Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
      Governor of Queensland – Sir William Cairns
      Governor of South Australia – Sir Anthony Musgrave
      Governor of Tasmania – Frederick Weld
      Governor of Victoria – Sir George Bowen
      Governor of Western Australia – The Hon. Sir Frederick Weld GCMG, then Sir William Robinson GCMG.


      = Premiers

      =
      Premiers of the Australian colonies:

      Premier of New South Wales – Henry Parkes until 8 February, then John Robertson
      Premier of Queensland – Arthur Macalister
      Premier of South Australia – Arthur Blyth until 8 June, then James Boucaut
      Premier of Tasmania – Alfred Kennerley
      Premier of Victoria –
      until 7 August – George Kerferd
      7 August - 20 October – Graham Berry
      starting 20 October – James McCulloch


      Events


      11 January – William Robinson arrives in Western Australia to become Governor of the colony.
      13 January – Frederick Weld becomes Governor of Tasmania.
      23 January – William Cairns becomes Governor of Queensland.
      9 February – John Robertson becomes Premier of New South Wales, replacing Henry Parkes.
      24 February – The SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off Ayr, Queensland and sinks with the loss of 102 lives.
      24 May – J. V. Mulligan and party discover the Barron River in Queensland, they left Cooktown on 17 April
      6 May – Ernest Giles and party leave South Australia for an overland expedition to Perth, they arrive on 10 November.
      3 June – Premier of South Australia Arthur Blyth resigns and is replaced by James Boucaut.
      7 August – Graham Berry becomes Premier of Victoria.
      20 October – James McCulloch becomes Premier of Victoria for the fourth time.
      24 December – 59 die when a cyclone destroys the pearling fleet in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia.
      Undated – Between 80 and 100 Arrernte (formerly known as Aranda) men, women and children are killed by a raiding party of 50 to 60 Matuntara warriors in the massacre of Running Waters.


      Arts and literature



      New South Government establishes an art gallery in Sydney; it later becomes the Art Gallery of New South Wales.


      Sport


      Polo played for the first time in Australia at Albert Park in Victoria
      Soccer played for the first time in Australia at Goodna in New South Wales.
      Wollomai wins the Melbourne Cup; the cup was held on the first Tuesday in November for this first time this year


      Births


      20 March – Benjamin Fuller, theatrical entrepreneur (died 1952)
      29 April – Margaret Preston, painter and printmaker (died 1963)
      22 July – Leslie James Wrigley, academic, school inspector, principal, and teacher (died 1933)
      3 December – Max Meldrum, painter (died 1955)


      Deaths


      28 January – James Hurtle Fisher, South Australian pioneer (born 1790)
      25 February – Thomas Reynolds, premier of South Australia (born 1818)
      25 February – James Stokes Millner, medical practitioner (born 1830)
      10 September – Silas Gill, Methodist preacher
      20 October – Charles Cowper, premier of New South Wales (born 1807)
      9 November – William Hovell, explorer (born 1786)
      2 December – Charles La Trobe, lieutenant-governor of Victoria (born 1801)
      Unknown date

      Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (born 1788)


      References



      Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.

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