The following lists events that happened during 1852 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
Events
Births
- 19 January â Thomas Price, 24th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909)
- 28 January â Louis Brennan, mechanical engineer and inventor (born in Ireland) (d. 1932)
- 8 February â Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
- 26 March â Alexander Sutherland, educator, writer and philosopher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1902)
- 14 April â Sir John Quick, Victorian politician and lawyer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1932)
- 20 July â Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces (born in Gibraltar) (d. 1933)
- 12 August â Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1930)
- 19 August â Edward Rennie, scientist (d. 1927)
- 4 September â Edmund Banfield, author and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
- 18 September â Clement Wragge, meteorologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)
- 20 November â Henry Hoyle, New South Wales politician and rugby league administrator (d. 1926)
- 26 November â Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent (d. 1922)
- 27 December â John Ferguson, minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
Deaths
References