1892 in Australia explained

The following lists events that happened during 1892 in Australia.

Incumbents

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – George Dibbs
• Premier of South Australia – Thomas Playford II (until 21 June), Frederick Holder (until 15 October), then John Downer
• Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith
• Premier of Tasmania – Philip Fysh (until 17 August) then Henry Dobson
• Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
• Premier of Victoria – James Munro (until 16 February), then William Shiels

Governors

• • • • Governor of New South Wales – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore Governor of Tasmania – Robert Hamilton until 30 November, vacant thereafter
  • Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson

Events

• 20 April – Victoria holds a general election.
• 23 May – Frederick Deeming hanged at Melbourne Gaol having been unsuccessfully defended by the lawyer Alfred Deakin.^[1] Deeming was accused of committing a series of crimes on three continents – theft, perjury, fraud, bigamy and murder; he used at least 20 aliases.
• 10 October – Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.^[2]

• 1 January – Physical Culture (Physie) started in Australia.

Arts and literature

See main article: 1892 in Australian literature.

Sport

• 5 October – the Australian Cricket Council announces an intercolonial cricket competition to be known as the Sheffield Shield.
• Glenloth wins the Melbourne Cup
• Collingwood Football Club was founded

Births

• 13 April – Gladys Moncrieff (died 1976), singer
• 20 April – Grace Cossington Smith, (died 1984), artist
• 6 July – John Simpson Kirkpatrick (died 1915), World War I ANZAC known as "the man with the donkey" http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090613b.htm
• 7 August – Sir Arthur Coles (died 1982), businessman and philanthropist
• 24 November – Sir Daniel McVey (died 1972), public servant^[3]
• 8 December – Bert Hinkler (died 1933), aviator

Deaths

• 10 May – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), poet
• 7 November – John Morphett (born 1809), explorer, settler and politician

Notes and References

1. Jones . Barry O. . A080288b . Deeming, Frederick Bailey (1853–1892) . 1981 . 978-0-522-84459-7 . 8 . Melbourne, Australia . 268–269 . 15 September 2008.
2. News: 12 October 2015 . Legend of Jackie Howe lives on 123 years after shearing record . ABC News . live . 2018-03-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180305073220/http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2015-10-12/jackie-howe-blackall-123years-record/6845692 . 2018-03-05.
3. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcvey-sir-daniel-11029 Sir Daniel McVey (1892–1972)