Governors

• Governor of New South Wales
  Governors of New South Wales
  The Governor of New South Wales is the state viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who is equally shared with 15 other sovereign nations in a form of personal union, as well as with the eleven other jurisdictions of Australia, and resides predominantly in her...
  
   – Lord Augustus Loftus
  Augustus Loftus
  Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus GCB, PC was a British diplomat and colonial administrator.Loftus was the fourth son of John Loftus, 2nd Marquess of Ely...
  
  
• Governor of South Australia
  Governors of South Australia
  The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level.In...
  
   – William Cleaver Francis Robinson
  William Cleaver Francis Robinson
  Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG was a British colonial administrator and a musical composer, being the author of several well known songs...
  
  ^{http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/parledu/html/sa_parl2.htm}
• Governor of Tasmania
  Governors of Tasmania
  The Governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as the Governor-General of Australia does at the national level.In accordance with the...
  
   – Major Sir George Strahan
  George Strahan
  Major Sir George Cumine Strahan KCMG was a British military officer and colonial administrator, best known as the Governor of Tasmania from 1881 to 1886.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• Governor of Victoria
  Governors of Victoria
  The Governor of Victoria is the representative in the Australian state of Victoria of its monarch, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level...
  
   – George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
  George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
  George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby, GCB, GCMG, PC , styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863, was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor.-Background:Normanby was born in London, the son of Constantine Phipps, 1st...
  
   then William Foster Stawell
  William Foster Stawell
  Sir William Foster Stawell KCMG was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia.-Early life:...
  
  

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales
  Premiers of New South Wales
  The Premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Government of New South Wales follows the Westminster system, with a Parliament of New South Wales acting as the legislature...
  
   – Alexander Stuart
  Alexander Stuart (Australian politician)
  Sir Alexander Stuart KCMG was Premier of New South Wales from 5 January 1883 to 7 October 1885.-Early years:Stuart was born at Edinburgh, the son of Alexander Stuart and his wife Mary, née McKnight. Stuart was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and attended the University of Edinburgh, but did not...
  
  ^{http://www.premiers.nsw.gov.au/ThePremierAndGovernment/HistoryOfOurPremiers/PastPremiers.htm}
• Premier of South Australia
  Premiers of South Australia
  Before the 1890s when there was no formal party system in South Australia, MPs tended to have historical liberal or conservative beliefs. The liberals dominated government from 1893 to 1905 with Labor support, with the conservatives mostly in opposition. Labor took government with the support of...
  
   – Sir John Cox Bray
  John Cox Bray
  Sir John Cox Bray KCMG JP was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia .-Early life:...
  
   until 16 June then John Colton
  John Colton
  Sir John Colton KCMG was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist.Colton, the son of William Colton, a farmer, was born in Devonshire, England. He arrived in South Australia in 1839 with his parents, who went on the land...
  
  ^{http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/parledu/html/sa_parl2.htm}
• Premier of Tasmania
  Premiers of Tasmania
  The Premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania. By convention, the party or political grouping which has majority support in the House of Assembly will nominate its leader to be Premier. The nominated politician is then invited by the Governor of...
  
   – William Giblin
  William Giblin
  William Robert Giblin was Premier of Tasmania from 5 March 1878 until 20 December 1878 and from 1879 until 1884.-Early life:...
  
   until 15 August then Adye Douglas
  Adye Douglas
  Sir Adye Douglas was an Australian lawyer and politician, and first class cricket player, who played one match for Tasmania. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 August 1884 to 8 March 1886....
  
  ^{http://www.parliament.tas.gov.au/tpl/DataSheets/Premiers_Table.htm}
• Premier of Victoria
  Premiers of Victoria
  The Premier of Victoria is the leader of the government in the Australian state of Victoria. The Premier is appointed by the Governor of Victoria, and is the leader of the political party able to secure a majority in the Legislative Assembly....
  
   – James Service
  James Service
  James Service , Australian colonial politician, was the 12th Premier of Victoria, Australia.-Biography:Service was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, and as a young man worked in a Glasgow tea importing business, Thomas Corbett and Company...
  
  

Events

• 13 March – Daisy Bates
  Daisy Bates (Australia)
  Daisy May Bates, CBE was an Irish Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' .-Early life:...
  
   married Breaker Morant
  Breaker Morant
  Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal whose skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker"...
  
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• 16 June – The South Australian government of John Bray
  John Cox Bray
  Sir John Cox Bray KCMG JP was a prominent South Australian politician and the first native-born Premier of South Australia .-Early life:...
  
   lost a no confidence motion
  Motion of no confidence
  A motion of no confidence is a parliamentary motion whose passing would demonstrate to the head of state that the elected parliament no longer has confidence in the appointed government.-Overview:Typically, when a parliament passes a vote of no...
  
   over the introduction of a new tax and Bray was replaced as premier
  Premiers of South Australia
  Before the 1890s when there was no formal party system in South Australia, MPs tended to have historical liberal or conservative beliefs. The liberals dominated government from 1893 to 1905 with Labor support, with the conservatives mostly in opposition. Labor took government with the support of...
  
   by the opposition leader John Colton
  John Colton
  Sir John Colton KCMG was an Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist.Colton, the son of William Colton, a farmer, was born in Devonshire, England. He arrived in South Australia in 1839 with his parents, who went on the land...
  
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• October – Billy Hughes
  Billy Hughes
  William Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923....
  
   migrated to Australia.

Sport

• Malua
  Malua (horse)
  Malua was the most versatile Australian Thoroughbred racehorse in history. Malua won over distances ranging from 5½ furlongs to 3¼ miles .-Breeding:He was a son of St. Albans from Edella by Peter Wilkins...
  
  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...
  
  ^{http://www.vrc.net.au/cpa/htm/htm_flemington_content.asp?page_id=120}

Births

• 8 February – Reginald "Snowy" Baker
  Reginald Baker
  Reginald Leslie "Snowy" Baker was an Australian athlete, sports promoter and film actor, who was born in Surry Hills, an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales...
  
   (d. 1953), sportsman and actor^{http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070152b.htm}
• 16 December – John Gunn
  John Gunn (Australian politician)
  John Gunn was the 29th Premier of South Australia.Gunn was born in Bendigo, Victoria, the second of nine children to a Scottish miner and his wife...
  
   (d. 1959), Premier of South Australia^{http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090135b.htm}

Deaths

• 25 January – James Francis
  James Francis
  James Goodall Francis , Australian colonial politician, was the 9th Premier of Victoria. Francis was born in London, and emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1847, where he became a businessman. He moved to Victoria in 1853 and became a leading Melbourne merchant...
  
   (b. 1819), Premier of Victoria^{http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040232b.htm}
• 22 February – Sir Charles Sladen
  Charles Sladen
  Sir Charles Sladen, KCMG , Australian colonial politician, was the 6th Premier of Victoria.Sladen was born in England near Walmer, Kent, the second son of John Baker Sladen, deputy-lieutenant of the county. He was educated at Shrewsbury and later at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1840, he graduated...
  
  (b. 1816), Premier of Victoria^{http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060151b.htm}