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Incumbents Governors Governors of the Australian colonies: Premiers Premiers of the Australian colonies: Events - 3 March The New South Wales Contingent, consisting of an infantry battalion and an artillery battalion, leaves Sydney to fight in the Sudan Campaign.[1]
- 28 March HMQS Gayundah arrives in Brisbane.
- 1 April The Cabinet of South Australia meets to discuss the "Russian scare" the fear that South Australia would come under attack from Russian warships should hostilities between Russia and Britain over Afghanistan result in war.[2]
- 10 August The Broken Hill Proprietary Company (later to become the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton) is registered as a company in Victoria.
- 4 7 October Third Intercolonial Trades Union Congress held in Sydney.
Science and technology Sport Births - 8 January John Curtin (died 1945), Australian Prime Minister
- 29 January Arthur Halloway (died 1961) rugby league footballer and coach
- 20 March Vernon Ransford (died 1958), cricketer
- 1 July Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), poet
- 12 August Keith Murdoch (died 1952), journalist and newspaper publisher
- 18 August Nettie Palmer (died 1964), poet and literary critic (wife of Vance Palmer)
- 28 August Vance Palmer (died 1959), novelist, essayist and critic (husband of Nettie Palmer)
- 22 September Ben Chifley (died 1951), Australian Prime Minister
- 15 October Frank Hurley (died 1962), photographer and adventurer
- 7 November Frank Cheadle, rugby league footballer and World War I soldier (died 1916).
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