The following lists events that happened during 1876 in Australia.

Incumbents

Governors

Governor of New South Wales The governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the ...

– Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead * Governor of Queensland – Sir William Cairns *

Governor of South Australia The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the Monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III. The governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the governor-gene ...

–

Sir Anthony Musgrave Sir Anthony Musgrave (31 August 1828 – 9 October 1888) was a Secretary of State for the Colonies, colonial administrator and governor. He died in office as Governor of Queensland in 1888. Early life He was born at St John's, Antigua, the t ...

* Governor of Tasmania – Frederick Weld * Governor of Victoria – Sir George Bowen * Governor of Western Australia – Sir William Robinson GCMG.

Premiers

Premiers of the Australian colonies: * Premier of New South Wales –

John Robertson John, Jon, or Jonathan Robertson may refer to: Politicians United Kingdom politicians * J. M. Robertson (John Mackinnon Robertson, 1856–1933), British journalist and Liberal MP for Tyneside 1906–1918 *John Robertson (Bothwell MP) (1867–1926) ...

* Premier of Queensland – Arthur Macalister until 5 June, then

George Thorn George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...

* Premier of South Australia –

James Boucaut Sir James Penn Boucaut (;) (29 October 1831 – 1 February 1916) was a South Australian politician and Australian judge. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly on four occasions: from 1861 to 1862 for City of Adelaide, from ...

until 6 June, then

John Colton John Colton may refer to: *John Colton (politician) (1823–1902), Australian politician, Premier of South Australia and philanthropist * John Colton (bishop) (c. 1320–1404), statesman and cleric in Ireland *John Colton (screenwriter) John Colt ...

* Premier of Tasmania –

Alfred Kennerley Alfred Kennerley (10 October 1810 – 15 November 1897) was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 4 August 1873 until 20 July 1876. Kennerley was born in Islington. He was a man of means who came from England to Australia w ...

until 20 July, then Thomas Reibey * Premier of Victoria –

James McCulloch Sir James McCulloch, (18 March 1819 – 31 January 1893), British colonial politician, was the fifth Premier of Victoria. Early life McCulloch was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was the son of George McCulloch, a quarry master a ...

Events

*20 February – Submarine cable between New South Wales and New Zealand completed. *21 March – J.V. Mulligan finds gold deposits in the

Hodgkinson River Hodgkinson is an English language, English-language surname, and may refer to: *Alan Hodgkinson (1936–2015), English footballer *Albert Hodgkinson (1897–1975), English recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal *Alison Hodgkinson, South Africa ...

in Queensland. *28 March – Classes commence at the University of Adelaide. *18 March – Luigi d'Albertis leaves Australia to explore New Guinea. *18–19 April – Catalpa rescue; Rescue team sent from

New Bedford, Massachusetts New Bedford (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ) is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, Bristol County, Massachusetts. It is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast (Massachusetts), South Coast region. Up throug ...

, USA by John Devoy, rescues six escaped Fenian prisoners from Fremantle, Western Australia *5 June –

becomes Premier of Queensland. *6 June –

becomes Premier of South Australia. *5 July – The completion of a railway bridge across the

Brisbane River The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay on the Coral Sea. John Oxley, the first European to explore the river, named it after the Go ...

links Brisbane and

Ipswich, Queensland Ipswich () is a city in South East Queensland, Australia. Situated on the Bremer River, it is approximately west of the Brisbane central business district. The city is renowned for its architectural, natural and cultural heritage. Ipswich pre ...

. *20 July – Thomas Reibey becomes Premier of Tasmania *11 September – SS ''Dandenong'' sinks; 40 lives are lost. *7 November – The Melbourne Cup is run for the first time on the first Tuesday of November *27 November – Legislation is enacted in Queensland creating the first public fire service in Australia. *1 December – SS ''Georgette'' runs aground near Busselton, Western Australia;

Grace Bussell Grace Vernon Drake-Brockman (née Bussell; 23 September 1860 – 7 October 1935), commonly referred to as Grace Bussell, was a woman from Western Australia. In 1876, as a 16-year-old, she was involved with Sam Isaacs in the rescue of the SS '' ...

and Sam Isaacs help to rescue the passengers.

Arts and literature

Births

*7 September – C. J. Dennis *10 September – Hugh D. McIntosh *18 September – James Scullin *23 September – Cyril Brudenell White *24 September –

Arthur Hennessy Arthur Stephen "Ash" Hennessy (24 September 1876 – 19 September 1959) was an Australian pioneer rugby league identity. He was a seminal figure in the creation of the South Sydney Rabbitohs for whom he played and later coached. He was a state an ...

*4 October – Hugh McCrae *24 November – Walter Burley Griffin *21 December – J. T. Lang

Unknown date

* Ambrose Dyson, also known as Amb Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist (died 1913)

Deaths

*22 January – George Dalrymple *8 March – Truganini *5 April – William Spain, first New South Wales Inspector-General of Police *24 May –

Henry Kingsley Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in an 1859 work, ''The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''. Life Kingsley wa ...

*10 June – Kenneth Brown, an explorer and pastoralist in Western Australia. He was hanged in 1876 for murdering his second wife Mary Ann Brown. *29 August –

John Skinner Prout John Skinner Prout (19 December 1805 – 29 August 1876) was a British painter, writer, lithographer and art teacher who worked in Australia in the 1840s. Biography Skinner Prout was born on 19 December 1805 in Plymouth, Devon, England ...

References

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Years of the 19th century in Australia