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Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1882 Timeline of Australian history

The following lists events that happened during1882 in Australia.

Governors of the Australian colonies:

• Governor of New South Wales –Lord Augustus Loftus
• Governor of Queensland –Arthur Edward Kennedy
• Governor of South Australia –Sir William Jervois
• Governor of Tasmania –Major Sir George Strahan
• Governor of Victoria –George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
• Governor of Western Australia –(office first formed in 1890)

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

• Premier of New South Wales –Henry Parkes
• Premier of Queensland –Thomas McIlwraith
• Premier of South Australia –John Cox Bray
• Premier of Tasmania –William Giblin
• Premier of Victoria –Sir Bryan O'Loghlen
• Premier of Western Australia – (office first formed in 1890)

• 1 January – Bilateral conventions for the exchange ofmoney orders come into effect between the United States of America and the colonies ofNew South Wales andVictoria.
• 2 February – Acyclone causes considerable damage to the town ofCardwell, Queensland.
• 8 May – Planning begins on the Working Men's College in Melbourne (nowRMIT University).
• 31 May – The steamerPretty Jane is wrecked on theNinety Mile Beach, 30 km west ofLakes Entrance. There were no deaths.^[1][2]
• 9 December –Brisbane is the first city in Australia to install electric lighting.

• 6 December – A raretransit of Venus across the disc of theSun is visible from Australia, and many scientific parties arrive from around the world to observe and record the transit. The next occurrence was June 2004.^{[1]Archived 10 November 2006 at theWayback Machine}

• 17 February – The first cricket Test match at theSydney Cricket Ground begins.
• 29 August – TheAustralian cricket team beatsEngland for the first time in a test match atThe Oval inLondon. A mock obituary appears in the next day'sSporting Times, mourning "the death of English cricket", which leads to the creation ofThe Ashes.
• The Assyrian wins theMelbourne Cup
• 30 December – The first Test of the1882–83 Ashes tour begins at theMelbourne Cricket Ground.^[3]

• 19 January –John Cain snr. (died 1957), Premier of Victoria
• 18 February –Harvey Sutton (died 1963), track and field athlete
• 24 March –Enid Derham (died 1941), poet
• 29 April –Tom Richards (died 1935), Australian rugby union player
• 5 May – SirDouglas Mawson, geologist and explorer (born in England)
• 8 July –Percy Grainger (died 1961), composer and pianist
• 26 July –Albert Dunstan, (died 1950), Premier of Victoria
• 6 December –Warren Bardsley (died 1954), cricketer

• 1 August –Henry Kendall (b. 1839), poet
• 8 September –Robert Johnston (b. 1792), naval officer
• 2 December –Eliza O'Flaherty (b. 1818), writer and stage actress

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