See also: 1849 in Australia, other events of 1850, 1851 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
• Governor of Queensland - (office first formed in 1859)
• Governor of South Australia - Sir Henry Fox Young
• Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
• Governor of Victoria - (office first formed in 1851)
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain Charles Fitzgerald.

Events

• January 26 - Patrick O'Donoghue starts publishing in Hobart Town a weekly newspaper named The Irish Exile, aimed mainly at fellow Irish prisoners and deportees.
• October 1 - The University of Sydney is founded.

Births

• February 17 - Alf Morgans, Premier of Western Australia (d. 1933)
• April 26 - James Drake, Australian politician (d. 1915)
• May 12 - Frederick Holder, premier of South Australia (d. 1909)
• October 22 - Charles Kingston, Premier of South Australia (d. 1908)

Deaths

• February 9 - Elizabeth Macarthur, co-founder of the wool industry in Australia. (b. 1766)
• June 16 - William Lawson, explorer and politician. (b. 1774)

See also

• 1850
• 1850s