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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1844 in Australia .
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies :
Events
Exploration and settlement
Births
Sir William Lyne
24 January –
Alexander Paterson , Queensland politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1908 )
31 January –
James McColl , Victorian politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1929 )
7 February –
Joseph Brown , Victorian politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1925 )
8 February –
John McGarvie Smith , metallurgist, bacteriologist and benefactor (d.
1918 )
26 February –
Thomas Glassey , 1st
Queensland Opposition Leader (born in
Ireland ) (d.
1936 )
17 March –
Sir Henry Briggs , Western Australian politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1919 )
6 April
9 May –
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson , Queensland politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1906 )
11 May –
Watkin Wynne , journalist, councillor and newspaper owner (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1921 )
16 May –
Sir John Madden , 4th
Chief Justice of Victoria (born in
Ireland ) (d.
1918 )
26 August –
J. C. Williamson , actor (born in the
United States ) (d.
1913 )
30 August –
William Tietkens , explorer and naturalist (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1933 )
2 September –
James Macfarlane , Tasmanian politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1914 )
26 September –
Charles Strong , preacher and minister (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1942 )
29 September –
Edward Pulsford , New South Wales politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1919 )
14 October –
Sir John See , 14th
Premier of New South Wales (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1907 )
15 October –
John Gavan Duffy , Victorian politician (born in
Ireland ) (d.
1917 )
13 November –
Andrew Harper , biblical scholar and teacher (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1936 )
21 November –
Ada Cambridge , writer and poet (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1926 )
5 December –
Sir Charles Mackellar , New South Wales politician and surgeon (d.
1926 )
Unknown –
William Sawers , New South Wales politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (d.
1916 )
Deaths
References
1844 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand