1886 in Australia

← 1885 1884 1883 1886 in Australia → 1887 1888 1889
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1886 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1886 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – John Robertson (until 25 February) then Patrick Jenning ^[1]
• Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith ^[2]
• Premier of South Australia – John Downer ^[3]
• Premier of Tasmania – Adye Douglas (til 8 March) then James Agnew ^[4]
• Premier of Victoria – James Service (til 18 February) then Duncan Gillies ^[5]

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Lord Carrington ^[6]
• Governor of Queensland – Anthony Musgrave ^[7]
• Governor of South Australia – William Robinson ^[8]
• Governor of Tasmania – George Strahan ^[9]
• Governor of Victoria – Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch ^[10]
• Governor of the Crown Colony of Western Australia – Sir Frederick Broome ^[11]

Events

• 25 January – The first assembly of the Federal Council of Australasia is held in Hobart. ^[12]
• 30 May – The SS Ly-Ee-Moon sinks off Green Cape, New South Wales, with the loss of 71 persons. ^[13]
• 12 June – William Spence chairs a meeting of shearers in Ballarat, Victoria at which the Australian Shearers Union is formed, an ancestor of the Australian Workers' Union. ^[14]

Undated

• Queen Victoria grants the Cocos (Keeling) Islands to the Clunies Ross family. ^[15]

Arts and literature

Main article: 1886 in Australian literature

Sport

• November – Arsenal wins the Melbourne Cup ^[16]
• England defeats Australia 3–0 in The Ashes ^[17]

Births

• 3 January – Arthur Mailey (died 1967), cricketer and journalist ^[18]
• 4 May – Aubrey Abbott (died 1975), politician and administrator of the Northern Territory ^[19]
• 28 November – Margaret McIntyre (died 1948), politician ^[20]

Deaths

• 4 November – James Martin (born 1820), Premier of New South Wales ^[21]

References

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2. "Queensland Premiers". www.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
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4. "Premiers of Tasmania". www.parliament.tas.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
5. "Parliament of Victoria - Premier of Victoria". www.parliament.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
6. Martin, A. W. "Carrington, Charles Robert (1843–1928)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
7. "Queensland Governors". www.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
8. Crowley, F. K. "Robinson, Sir William Cleaver Francis (1834–1897)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
9. "Previous Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of Tasmania". Government House Tasmania. 31 January 2017. Archived from the original on 17 November 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
10. "Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch - British colonial official". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
11. Crowley, F. K. "Broome, Sir Frederick Napier (1842–1896)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
12. "Federal Council of Australasia". National Library of Australia. 1886. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
13. "ss-ly-ee-moon" "SS Ly-ee-Moon". monumentaustralia.org.au. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
14. Lansbury, Coral; Nairn, Bede. "Spence, William Guthrie (1846–1926)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
15. "The Cocos (Keeling) Islands". www.naa.gov.au. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
16. "THE MELBOURNE CUP, FROM 1861 TO 1917". Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954). 24 October 1946. p. 10. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
17. "Ashes History: The early years". BBC. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
18. Walsh, G. P. "Mailey, Alfred Arthur (1886–1967)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
19. Abbott, Charles Lydiard Aubrey (1886–1975)
20. "McIntyre, Margaret Edgeworth - Woman - The Australian Women's Register". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
21. "Sir James Martin, 1820 – 1886". Heritage Archives and Library Research and Collection Services. 10 December 2017. Archived from the original on 22 March 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2018.