1880 in Australia
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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Australian English Template:Year in region The following lists events that happened during 1880 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Augustus Loftus[1]
- Governor of Queensland – Sir Arthur Kennedy[2]
- Governor of South Australia – Sir William Jervois[3]
- Governor of Tasmania – Frederick Weld until 5 April, vacant thereafter[4]
- Governor of Victoria – George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby[5]
Premiers
Premiers of the Australian colonies:
- Premier of New South Wales – Sir Henry Parkes[6]
- Premier of Queensland – Thomas McIlwraith[7]
- Premier of South Australia – William Morgan[8]
- Premier of Tasmania – William Giblin[9]
- Premier of Victoria –
- until 5 March – Graham Berry[10]
- 5 March-3 August – James Service[10]
- starting 3 August – Graham Berry[10]
Events
- 22 January – Toowong State School is founded in Queensland.
- 20 January – Bushranger Captain Moonlite (real name Andrew George Scott) hanged in Sydney.[11]
- 31 January – The Bulletin magazine is first published.[12]
- May – School is made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in New South Wales.[13]
- 28 June – Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan, Victoria.[14]
- 1 October – The Melbourne International Exhibition is opened at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton.[15]
- 10 October – Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.[16]
- 11 November – Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.[17]
- 23 November – Redmond Barry, the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly to be hanged, dies just twelve days after Kelly was hanged.[18]
Science and technology
- 2 February – The first successful shipment of frozen beef and mutton from Australia arrived in London aboard the SS Strathleven.[19]
- August – The first telephone exchange in Australia opened in Melbourne.[20]
Arts and literature
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Sport
- Grand Flaneur wins the Melbourne Cup.[21]
- England defeat Australia by 5 wickets in a Cricket Test held at The Oval.[22]
Births
- 2 January – Charlie Frazer, politician (died 1913)
- 15 April – Doug McLean, Sr., rugby footballer (died 1947)[23]
- 8 August – Earle Page, the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (died 1961)[24]
- 10 December – Jessie Aspinall, doctor, first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (died 1953)[25]
- 11 December – Frank Tarrant, cricketer (died 1951)[26]
Deaths
- 20 January – Captain Moonlight, bushranger (born 1842), hanged[11]
- 2 May – Tom Wills, cricketer and founder of Australian rules football (born 1835), suicide[27]
- 26 June – Aaron Sherritt, bushranger (born August 1854), shot by Joe Byrne
- 28 June – Joe Byrne, bushranger (born November 1856),
- 28 June – Steve Hart, bushranger (born February 1859),
- 28 June – Dan Kelly, bushranger and the younger brother of Ned Kelly (born June 1861),
- 29 July – Charles Hervey Bagot, South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian (b. 1788)[28]
- 27 September – Charles Hardwicke, Tasmanian explorer (b. 1788)[29]
- 27 October – Samuel Gill, artist (born 1818)[30]
- 11 November – Ned Kelly, bushranger (b. c. 1855), hanged[17]
- 23 November – Redmond Barry, Judge (born 1813)[18]
References
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- ↑ Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880–1953)
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