1876 in Australia

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20 February – Submarine cable between New South Wales and New Zealand completed.
21 March – J.V. Mulligan finds gold deposits in the Hodgkinson River in Queensland.
28 March – Classes commence at the University of Adelaide.
18 March – Luigi d'Albertis leaves Australia to explore New Guinea.
18–19 April – Catalpa rescue; Rescue team sent from New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA by John Devoy, rescues six escaped Fenian prisoners from Fremantle, Western Australia
5 June – George Thorn becomes Premier of Queensland.
6 June – John Colton becomes Premier of South Australia.
5 July – The completion of a railway bridge across the Brisbane River links Brisbane and Ipswich, Queensland.
20 July – Thomas Reibey becomes Premier of Tasmania
11 September – SS Dandenong sinks; 40 lives are lost.
7 November – The Melbourne Cup is run for the first time on the first Tuesday of November
27 November – Legislation is enacted in Queensland creating the first public fire service in Australia.
1 December – SS Georgette runs aground near Busselton, Western Australia; Grace Bussell and Sam Isaacs help to rescue the passengers.

Ambrose Dyson, also known as Amb Dyson, illustrator and political cartoonist (died 1913)

22 January – George Dalrymple
8 March – Truganini
5 April – William Spain, first New South Wales Inspector-General of Police
24 May – Henry Kingsley
10 June – Kenneth Brown, an explorer and pastoralist in Western Australia. He was hanged in 1876 for murdering his second wife Mary Ann Brown.
29 August – John Skinner Prout

Barker, Anthony (1996). What Happened When. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-986-3.

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