1845 in Australia
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See also: 1844 in Australia, other events of 1845, 1846 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir George Gipps
• Governor of Queensland - (office first formed in 1859)
• Governor of South Australia - Sir George Grey (to October 25), then Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
• Governor of Tasmania - Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
• Governor of Victoria - (office first formed in 1851)
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - John Hutt.

Events

• March 12 - St John the Baptist Church in Reid Canberra is consecrated.
• August 4 - The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown.
• July 20 - Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.
• June 21 - News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
• December 17 - Ludwig Leichhardt arrives at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs.
• Wool export in Australia - 24 million pounds.

Births

• February 25 - George Reid, fourth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1918)
• April 15 - Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer. (d. 1919)
• June 16 - William Charles Kernot, engineer.
• June 21 - Samuel Griffith, politician and judge.

Deaths

• August 5 - John Blaxland, pioneer grazier.

See also

• 1845
• 1840s