1857 in Australia

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See also:

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Premiers

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

Premier of New South Wales - Henry Parker to 7 September then Charles Cowper
Premier of South Australia - Boyle Travers Finniss, John Baker, Robert Torrens, Richard Hanson
Premier of Tasmania - William Champ, Thomas Gregson, William Weston, Francis Smith
Premier of Victoria - Dr William Haines, John O'Shanassy

Events

13 May - St Kilda railway station, Melbourne is opened.
4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria.
25 July - Matthew Blagden Hale is consecrated as the first Bishop of Perth in a ceremony at the Lambeth Palace Chapel.
20 August - The Dunbar is wrecked at the entrance to Sydney Harbour, killing 121 passengers.
In Victoria, Australia, one adult male in 7 is Chinese.

Births

26 February – Alfred Waldron, Australian rules footballer (died 1929)
21 March – Alice Henry, suffragist and trade unionist (died 1943)
25 March – Francis Clarke, politician (died 1939)
3 May – Robert Hutchinson, WA politician (died 1918)
9 May – Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (died 1935)
31 May – William Story, politician (died 1924)
13 June – Hubert Newman Wigmore Church, poet (died 1932)
14 June – Adolphus Taylor, journalist and NSW politician (died 1900)
25 June – Louis Gabriel, photographer (died 1927)
1 August – John Harry, Test cricketer (died 1919)
7 September – John McIlwraith, Test cricketer (died 1938)
19 September – John Livingston, politician (died 1935)
14 October – Allan McDougall, Senator for New South Wales (died 1924)
12 November – Samuel Mauger, politician (died 1936)
2 December – Thomas Lavelle, politician (died 1944)
5 December – Cyril Cameron, Senator for Tasmania (died 1941)
21 December – Joseph Carruthers, Premier of New South Wales (died 1932)
Arthur Green

Deaths

10 May – John Busby (born 1765), surveyor and civil engineer
10 August – Frank McCallum, bushranger ("Captain Melville")
29 August – Archibald Clunes Innes (born 1800), soldier and pastoralist

Years in Australia (1788–present)

1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800

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Timeline of Australian history

1857 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

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