1893 in Australia

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See also:	Other events of 1893 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1893 in Australia.

Incumbents

Premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – George Dibbs
• Premier of South Australia – John Downer (until 16 June) then Charles Kingston
• Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith (until 27 March), Thomas McIlwraith (until 27 October) then Hugh Nelson
• Premier of Tasmania – Henry Dobson
• Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
• Premier of Victoria – William Shiels (until 23 January) then James Patterson

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey until March, then Robert Duff
• Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman
• Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
• Governor of Tasmania – Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston
• Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow
• Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson

Events

• 30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893. ^[1]
• 4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland. ^[2]
• 20 January to 29 March – Adelaide receives no measurable rainfall for sixty-nine consecutive days, still a record since observations started in 1839. ^{[3] [4]}
• 14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
• Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms
• Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria spends time hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia

Arts and literature

Main article: 1893 in Australian literature

Sport

• Tarcoola wins the Melbourne Cup
• Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield Shield

Births

• 10 January – Albert Jacka (died 1932), recipient of the Victoria Cross ^[6]
• 11 January – Charles "Chook" Fraser (died 1981), rugby league footballer and coach
• 13 January – Roy Cazaly (died 1963), Australian Rules footballer
• 30 April – Harold Breen (died 1966), public servant
• 21 May – Giles Chippindall, (died 1969), public servant
• 4 August – Amy Hannah Adamson (died 1963), school principal
• 8 October – William Morrison (died 1961), Governor General of Australia
• 22 November – Robert Nimmo (died 1966), army officer
• 2 December – Raphael Cilento (died 1985), medical administrator
• 9 December – Ivo Whitton (died 1967), golfer

Deaths

• 4 September – Francis William Adams, writer (born 1862)
• 17 October – Josiah Howell Bagster, land agent and politician (born 1847)
• 27 February Victor Marcus Coppleson, Australian surgeon (born 1893)

Footnotes

1. "Monetary and Commercial". The Argus. 30 January 1893.
2. "Known Floods in the Brisbane and Bremer River Basin". Queensland Flood History. Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
3. "Natural Environment". South Australian Year Book (No. 26 ed.). 1992. p. 7.
4. "1893 Daily rainfall – Adelaide (West Terrace/Ngayirdapira)". Climate Data Online. Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
5. Stanley, William, 1820-1902 (1893), Bay View gavotte [music] / composed by William Stanley (in no linguistic content), W.H. Paling & Co
6. "Captain Albert Jacka". www.awm.gov.au. Retrieved 8 October 2018.