1854 in Australia explained

The following lists events that happened during 1854 in Australia.

Incumbents

This was a year of intense political agitation by miners on the Victorian goldfields.

3 March – The first telegraph line in the southern hemisphere begins operating in Victoria.^[1]
4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria.
5 July – The Mercury was first published in Hobart.
17 October – The Melbourne daily newspaper The Age was first published.^[2]
29 November – The Eureka Flag was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Ballarat.
3 December – battle suppressing the rebellion at Eureka Stockade

4 January – Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovers the McDonald Islands.
12 September – Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria Charles Hotham opens Flinders Street station, the first city railway station in Australia.

30 September – The first game of cricket is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

12 February – Edward Wittenoom, Western Australian politician (d. 1936)
24 March – Sir Henry Lefroy, 11th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1930)
12 April – William Maloney, Victorian politician and doctor (d. 1940)
20 May – George Prendergast, 28th Premier of Victoria (d. 1937)
25 June – Andrew Lang Petrie, Queensland politician (d. 1928)
5 August – William Aitcheson Haswell, zoologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
18 October – Billy Murdoch, cricketer (d. 1911)
30 November – James Wilkinson, Queensland politician (d. 1915)
Unknown, possibly December – Ned Kelly, bushranger (d. 1880)

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcgowan-samuel-walker-4094 McGowan, Samuel Walker (1829–1887)
Web site: "The Age, Vol. 1, No. 1" . The Age, 17 October 1854, p1. 30 October 2024.