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See also:	Other events of 1843 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during 1843 in Australia.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Victoria

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
• Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey
• Governor of Tasmania – Captain Sir John Franklin
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.

Events

• July – Up to 150 Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men in the Warrigal Creek Massacre as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
• 12 September – The Battle of One Tree Hill was a conflict between European settlers and Aboriginals.
• Undated – The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is started, using convict labour, it is completed in 1864, using free labourers.
• Undated – The War of Southern Queensland begins between a coalition of Aboriginal tribes in South East Queensland, the "United Tribes", and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland it would be fought until 1855.

Science and technology

• September – John Ridley builds his invention, a corn stripper-harvester, in Hindmarsh.

Births

• 11 January – C. Y. O'Connor, engineer (born in Ireland) (d. 1902)
• 2 May – James Garvan, New South Wales politician (born in Ireland) (d. 1896)
• 6 July – Sir John Downer, 16th Premier of South Australia (d. 1915)
• 24 July – Nathaniel Dawes, bishop (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
• 27 July – Joseph Vardon, South Australian politician and printer (d. 1913)
• 24 August – Boyd Dunlop Morehead, 10th Premier of Queensland (d. 1905)
• 26 September – Joseph Furphy, author and poet (d. 1912)
• 1 October – Garnet Walch, writer, journalist and publisher (d. 1913)
• 9 October – Alexander William Jardine, engineer (d. 1920)
• 5 November – Sir Harry Rawson, 21st Governor of New South Wales (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1910)
• 25 December – Edward Ellis Morris, lexicographer and educationist (born in India) (d. 1902)
• 28 December – Ebenezer Wake Cook, artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1926)

Deaths

• 22 December – John Bigge, judge and royal commissioner (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)

References

1. Cameron, Angus, ed. (1986). "Part One: Capital City Chronologies. A History of Sydney". The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 8. ISBN 0-207-15232-2.
2. "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention". South Australian Register. National Library of Australia. 9 September 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
3. Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 12. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.

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