The following lists events that happened during 1852 in Australia.
Incumbents
Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria – Charles La Trobe Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
Events 10 February – the Supreme Court of Victoria sits for the first time in Melbourne. 1–2 April – The Nelson robbery takes place in Hobsons Bay. 25 June – The Murrumbidgee River flooded Gundagai, New South Wales killing 89 of the population of 250. The town was moved to higher ground. The flooding continued but no deaths occurred. 4 July – Anti-Chinese riots occur in Victoria, Australia. 11 October – The University of Sydney was inaugurated, Australia's first university.
Births
19 January – Thomas Price, 24th Premier of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1909) 28 January – Louis Brennan, mechanical engineer and inventor (born in Ireland) (d. 1932) 8 February – Sir Malcolm McEacharn, Victorian politician and shipping magnate (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910) 26 March – Alexander Sutherland, educator, writer and philosopher (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1902) 14 April – Sir John Quick, Victorian politician and lawyer (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1932) 20 July – Sir William Rooke Creswell, 1st Naval Officer Commanding the Commonwealth Naval Forces (born in Gibraltar) (d. 1933) 12 August – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, 12th Governor of South Australia (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1930) 19 August – Edward Rennie, scientist (d. 1927) 4 September – Edmund Banfield, author and naturalist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923) 18 September – Clement Wragge, meteorologist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922) 20 November – Henry Hoyle, New South Wales politician and rugby league administrator (d. 1926) 26 November – Arthur Groom, Victorian politician and land agent (d. 1922) 27 December – John Ferguson, minister (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1925)
Deaths
21 May – James Mudie, officer, landowner and author (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1779) 29 June – Jeffery Hart Bent, judge (born in the United Kingdom and died in Guyana) (b. 1781) 16 October – George Evans, surveyor and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780) Unknown – Johann Menge, explorer and geologist (born in Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1788)
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