Events

• 8 January - Arthur Macalister
  Arthur Macalister
  Arthur Macalister, CMG was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.-Early life:Macalister was born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of John Macalister, a cabinet maker, and his wife Mary, née Scoullar. Macalister was educated in Glasgow and emigrated to Australia with his wife Elizabeth Wallace née...
  
   becomes Premier of Queensland for the third time.
• 10 March - Ernest Giles
  Ernest Giles
  William Ernest Powell Giles , best known as Ernest Giles, was an Australian explorer who led three major expeditions in central Australia.- Early life :...
  
   is the first European to explore and later names (12 March) the Petermann Ranges.
• 1 April - John Forrest
  John Forrest
  Sir John Forrest GCMG was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament....
  
   leads an expedition from Geraldton, Western Australia
  Geraldton, Western Australia
  Geraldton is a city and port in Western Australia located north of Perth in the Mid West region. Geraldton has an estimated population at June 2010 of 36,958...
  
   across the Gibson Desert
  Gibson Desert
  The Gibson Desert covers a large dry area in the state of Western Australia and is still largely in an almost "pristine" state. It is about in size, making it the 5th largest desert in Australia, after the Great Sandy, Great Victoria, Tanami and Simpson deserts.-Location and description:The Gibson...
  
   to the Peake telegraph station in South Australia.
• 15 June - Brisbane's first Victoria Bridge opens; it is lost in the 1893 Brisbane flood
  1893 Brisbane flood
  The 1893 Brisbane flood, occasionally referred to as the Great Flood of 1893 or the Black February flood, occurred when the Brisbane River burst its banks on three occasions in February 1893. It is the occurrence of three major floods in the same month that saw the period named "Black February"....
  
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• 31 July - George Kerferd
  George Kerferd
  George Briscoe Kerferd , Australian colonial politician, was the 10th Premier of Victoria.Kerferd was born in Liverpool, the son of G. B. Kerferd, a merchant. Kerferd was educated at the Collegiate Institute, Liverpool, with intentions of studying law; however circumstances led him to enter his...
  
   becomes Premier of Victoria.
• 28 September - Victorian Humane Society established; it later becomes the Royal Humane Society of Australasia
  Royal Humane Society of Australasia
  The Royal Humane Society of Australasia, formerly the Victorian Humane Society, is an Australian charity dedicated to the recognition of those who risk their own lives in saving or attempting to save the lives of others...
  
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• 6 November - University of Adelaide
  University of Adelaide
  The University of Adelaide is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third oldest university in Australia...
  
   established by act of the South Australian Parliament; it opened in 1876.

Arts and literature

• Marcus Clarke
  Marcus Clarke
  Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke was an Australian novelist and poet, best known for his novel For the Term of his Natural Life.- Biography :...
  
  's For the Term of his Natural Life
  For the Term of his Natural Life
  For the Term of His Natural Life, written by Marcus Clarke, was published in the Australian Journal between 1870 and 1872 , appearing as a novel in 1874. It is the best known novelisation of life as a convict in early Australian history...
  
  is published in book form

Sport

• Southern Rugby Union is established; renamed New South Wales Rugby Union
  New South Wales Rugby Union
  The New South Wales Rugby Union is the organisation responsible for the sport of rugby union in most of the state of New South Wales, Australia...
  
   in 1892
• Haricot wins the Melbourne Cup
  Melbourne Cup
  The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...
  
  

Births

• 2 March - Gregan McMahon
  Gregan McMahon
  Gregan McMahon, CBE was an Australian actor and theatrical producer.McMahon was born in Sydney, elder son of John Terence McMahon, a clerk, and his wife Elizabeth, née Gregan. Both parents were emigrants from Ireland. McMahon was educated at Sydney Grammar School and St Ignatius' College, Riverview...
  
  
• 3 March - Ada Crossley
  Ada Crossley
  Ada Jemima Crossley was an Australian singer.Crossley was a daughter of E. Wallis Crossley, a farmer. She was born at Tarraville, Gippsland, Victoria...
  
  
• 17 September - Walter Murdoch
  Walter Murdoch
  Emeritus Professor Sir Walter Murdoch, KCMG was a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence, wit, and humanity. He was a Founding Professor of English and former Chancellor of University of Western Australia in Perth. Murdoch University, also in Perth is named after him...
  
  
• 17 October - Lionel Lindsay
  Lionel Lindsay
  Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay was an Australian artist and brother of artist and illustrator Norman Lindsay.-Early life:...
  
  

Deaths

• 1 February - Alexander Harris
  Alexander Harris (writer)
  Alexander Harris was a soldier, teacher and author known for his early fictional accounts of convict life in Australia.He arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1825 and returned to London, England in 1841....
  
  
• 17 May - Sir Roger Therry
  Roger Therry
  Roger Therry was an Irish-Australian jurist.Therry was born in Ireland. He was called to the bar in Ireland in 1824 and in England in 1827. His A Letter to the Right Hon...