1 April – The Cabinet of South Australia meets to discuss the "Russian scare"—the fear that South Australia would come under attack from Russian warships should hostilities between Russia and Britain over Afghanistan result in war.[2]
10 August – BHP, later to become the world's largest mining company, is registered as a company in Victoria.
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