1852 in Australia
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Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
- Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
 - Governor of South Australia - Sir Henry Fox Young
 - Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
 - Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria - Charles La Trobe
 - Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
 
Events
- 10 February - the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne.
 - 1-2 April - The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay.
 - 25 June - The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground.
 - 4 July - Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia.
 - 11 October - The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.
 
Births
- 19 January - Thomas Price
 - 28 January - Louis Brennan
 - 8 February - Malcolm McEacharn
 - 26 March - Alexander Sutherland
 - 14 April - John Quick, politician (died 1932)
 - 20 July - William Creswell
 - 12 August - Algernon Keith-Falconer
 - 19 August - Edward Rennie
 - 4 September - Edmund Banfield
 - 18 September - Clement Wragge
 - 20 November - Henry Hoyle, politician and co-founder of the New South Wales Rugby League (died 1926)
 - 27 December - John Ferguson
 
Deaths
- Jeffery Hart Bent
 - George Evans
 - James Mudie
 -  date unknown
- Johann Menge, South Australian explorer and geologist (b. 1788)
 
 
References
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