1849 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:- Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
- Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
- Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald
Events
- 26 January – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League is formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand).
- 23 February – Public meeting in Perth calls for introduction of convicts to the help the colony's depressed economy, first consignment arrive in the following June.
- May – A clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre.
Births
- 18 January – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice
- 11 February – Fred Bamford, Queensland politician
- 26 March – Edwin Evans, cricketer
- 27 July – Archibald Watson, surgeon
- 8 August – Hume Nisbet, novelist and artist
- 17 August – William Kidston, 17th Premier of Queensland
- 29 August – Sir John Sulman, architect
- 22 September – Alexander Forrest, Western Australian politician and explorer
- 24 September – Justin Foxton, Queensland politician
- 5 November – Sir Lancelot Stirling, South Australian politician
- 2 December – Frank Allan, cricketer
- 28 December – Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician