1893 in Australia

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.
• 4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland.
• 20 January to 29 March – Adelaide receives no measurable rainfall for sixty-nine consecutive days, still a record since observations started in 1839.
• 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

Sport

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

Births

• 10 January – Albert Jacka (died 1932), recipient of the Victoria Cross
• 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