1852 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1852 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
- 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. The flooding continued but no deaths occurred.
- 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, 24th Premier of South Australia
- 28 January – Louis Brennan, mechanical engineer and inventor
- 8 February – Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate
- 26 March – Alexander Sutherland, educator, writer and philosopher
- 14 April – Sir John Quick, Victorian politician and lawyer
- 20 July – Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces
- 12 August – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia
- 19 August – Edward Rennie, scientist
- 4 September – Edmund Banfield, author and naturalist
- 18 September – Clement Wragge, meteorologist
- 20 November – Henry Hoyle, New South Wales politician and rugby league administrator
- 26 November – Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent
- 27 December – John Ferguson, minister
Deaths
- 21 May – James Mudie, officer, landowner and author
- 29 June – Jeffery Hart Bent, judge
- 16 October – George Evans, surveyor and explorer
- Unknown – Johann Menge, explorer and geologist