1847 in Australia

Incumbents

Governors

• Governor of New South Wales - Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
• Governor of Queensland - (office first formed in 1859)
• Governor of South Australia - Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
• Governor of Tasmania - Sir William Denison
• Governor of Victoria - (office first formed in 1851)
• Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony - Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke.

Events

• July 15 - St Peter's College, Adelaide is founded by members of the Anglican Church of Australia.
• December 28 - Augustus Short, the first Anglican bishop of Adelaide, South Australia arrives from England.

Births

Deaths

• February 11 - Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Andrew Clarke, Governor of Western Australia.

See also

• 1847
• 1840s