# 1875 in Australia

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The following lists events that happened during 1875 in Australia.

## Incumbents

* Monarch - Victoria

### Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:
* Governor of New South Wales – Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead
* Governor of Queensland – Sir William Cairns
* Governor of South Australia – Sir Anthony Musgrave
* Governor of Tasmania – Frederick Weld
* Governor of Victoria – Sir George Bowen
* Governor of Western Australia – The Hon. Sir Frederick Weld GCMG, then Sir William Robinson GCMG.

### Premiers

Premiers of the Australian colonies:
* Premier of New South Wales – Henry Parkes until 8 February, then John Robertson
* Premier of Queensland – Arthur Macalister
* Premier of South Australia – Arthur Blyth until 8 June, then James Boucaut
* Premier of Tasmania – Alfred Kennerley
* Premier of Victoria –
** until 7 August – George Kerferd
** 7 August - 20 October – Graham Berry
** starting 20 October – James McCulloch

## Events

* 11 January – William Robinson arrives in Western Australia to become Governor of the colony.
* 13 January – Frederick Weld becomes Governor of Tasmania.
* 23 January – William Cairns becomes Governor of Queensland.
* 9 February – John Robertson becomes Premier of New South Wales, replacing Henry Parkes.
* 24 February – The SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off Ayr, Queensland and sinks with the loss of 102 lives.
* 24 May – J. V. Mulligan and party discover the Barron River in Queensland, they left Cooktown on 17 April
* 6 May – Ernest Giles and party leave South Australia for an overland expedition to Perth, they arrive on 10 November.
* 3 June – Premier of South Australia Arthur Blyth resigns and is replaced by James Boucaut.
* 7 August – Graham Berry becomes Premier of Victoria.
* 20 October – James McCulloch becomes Premier of Victoria for the fourth time.
* 24 December – 59 die when a cyclone destroys the pearling fleet in the Exmouth Gulf of Western Australia.
* Undated -
** Between 80 and 100 Arrernte (formerly known as Aranda) men, women and children are killed by a raiding party of 50 to 60 Matuntara warriors in the massacre of Running Waters.
** The 1875–1876 Australia scarlet fever epidemic begins in Victoria.

## Arts and literature

* New South Government establishes an art gallery in Sydney; it later becomes the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

## Sport

* Polo played for the first time in Australia at Albert Park in Victoria
* Soccer played for the first time in Australia at Goodna in New South Wales.
* Wollomai wins the Melbourne Cup; the cup was held on the first Tuesday in November for this first time this year

## Births

* 20 March – Benjamin Fuller, theatrical entrepreneur (died 1952)
* 29 April – Margaret Preston, painter and printmaker (died 1963)
* 22 July – Leslie James Wrigley, academic, school inspector, principal, and teacher (died 1933)
* 3 December – Max Meldrum, painter (died 1955)

## Deaths

* 28 January – James Hurtle Fisher, South Australian pioneer (born 1790)
* 25 February – Thomas Reynolds, premier of South Australia (born 1818)
* 25 February – James Stokes Millner, medical practitioner (born 1830)
* 10 September – Silas Gill, Methodist preacher
* 20 October – Charles Cowper, premier of New South Wales (born 1807)
* 9 November – William Hovell, explorer (born 1786)
* 2 December – Charles La Trobe, lieutenant-governor of Victoria (born 1801)
Unknown date
* Henry Willey Reveley, Swan River Colony civil engineer (born 1788)