1844 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1844 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch - Victoria Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: *Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps *Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey * Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot * Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt. Events * 1 January – Australia's first ringing peal rang from the bells of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney * 6 April – John Gavin is the first European settler to be legally executed in Western Australia. Gavin, a fifteen-year-old apprentice, was found guilty of the murder of his employer's son, George Pollard. * 12 September – The Royal Society of Tasmania was formed. It was the first branch of the Society established outside Britain. * Undated – Port Augusta War * Undated – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men at Maffra as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai ...
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1844
In the Philippines, it was the only leap year with 365 days, as December 31 was skipped when 1845 began after December 30. Events January–March * January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives its charter from Indiana. * February 27 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. * February 28 – A gun on the USS ''Princeton'' explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others. * March 8 ** King Oscar I ascends to the throne of Sweden–Norway upon the death of his father, Charles XIV/III John. ** The Althing, the parliament of Iceland, is reopened after 45 years of closure. * March 9 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Ernani'' debuts at Teatro La Fenice, Venice. * March 12 – The Columbus and Xenia Railroad, the first railroad planned to be built in Ohio, is chartered. * March 13 – The dictator Carlos Antonio López becomes first President of Paraguay. ...
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