1847 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1847 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:- Governor of South Australia - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
- Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
- Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke, then Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Irwin.
Events
- 15 July - St Peter's College, Adelaide is founded by members of the Anglican Church of Australia.
- 28 December - Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England.
Science and Technology
June – Dentist, John Belisario becomes the first to use ether to anaesthetise a patientBirths
- 12 February – Sir Albert Gould, New South Wales politician
- 19 February – Josiah Howell Bagster, South Australian politician and land agent
- 22 February – James Huddart, shipowner and businessman
- 6 March – Edward Petherick, book collector and archivist
- 13 March – Samuel Cooke, Victorian politician
- 5 April – Frederick William Ward, journalist and newspaper editor
- 7 April – John Arthur, Tasmanian cricketer
- 23 May – Robert Etheridge Jr., paleontologist
- 23 July – George Sydney Aldridge, businessman
- 22 August – Sir John Forrest, 1st Premier of Western Australia and explorer
- 3 October – Henry Montgomery, Anglican bishop
- 8 October – Rose Scott, suffragette
- 29 October – George Collingridge, writer and illustrator
- 11 October – Alexander Bolton, New South Wales politician
- 17 November – Archibald Liversidge, chemist
- 10 December – Harry Boyle, Test cricketer