1887 in Australia
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The following lists events that happened during 1887 in Australia.
Incumbents
[edit]- Premier of New South Wales – Patrick Jenning (until 19 January), then Henry Parkes
- Premier of South Australia – John Downer (until 11 June), then Thomas Playford II
- Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith
- Premier of Tasmania – James Agnew (until 29 March), then Philip Fysh
- Premier of Victoria – Duncan Gillies
- Governor of the Crown Colony of Western Australia – Sir Frederick Broome
Events
[edit]- 1 January – Clement Wragge is appointed Government Meteorologist for Queensland
- 21 January – Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
- 23 March – 81 miners are killed during a coal gas explosion at Bulli, New South Wales
- 22 April – A cyclone hits a pearling fleet off Eighty Mile Beach, 120 men drown.
- 11 May – Ship Darling Downs with 7725 bales of Australian wool sinks at Nore after collision with Britannia[1]
- 22 June – The Fremantle Town Hall is opened.[2]
- 26 Sept – The Celtic Club Melbourne is formed and remains today as Australia's oldest Irish Club
- 19 October – The Sydney-bound steamer SS Cheviot is wrecked near Point Nepean, Victoria, claiming 35 lives.
Science and technology
[edit]- Construction of Goulburn Weir commenced, one of Australia's earliest irrigation schemes.[3]
Arts and literature
[edit]Sport
[edit]- Dunlop wins the Melbourne Cup
Births
[edit]- 2 February – Pat Sullivan, film director (died 1933)
- 16 April – Henry Gordon Bennett, soldier (died 1962)
- 6 July – Annette Kellerman, swimming celebrity (died 1975)
- 28 October – Herb Byrne, Australian rules footballer (died 1959)
- 30 November – Beatrice Kerr, swimmer, diver, and aquatic performer (died 1971)
Deaths
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References
[edit]- ^ "Collision off the English Coast". The Age. No. 10, 056. Victoria, Australia. 16 May 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 23 July 2024 – via National Library of Australia. Perhaps SS Britannia (1882)
- ^ Kimberly, Warren Bert (2018). History of West Australia. Charles River Editors. p. 590. ISBN 9781531267810.
- ^ "Goulburn Weir". Gouldburn-Murray Water. Retrieved 28 November 2023.