06/09/1858
A gold nugget weighting almost 185 pounds dug up in the Australian gold fields Business/Industry
12/25/1859
Australia-bound ship wrecked in the English Channel soon after sailing and all aboard are lost Crime/Disasters
12/25/1859
Australian Thomas Austin hosts his first rabbit hunt with twenty-five wild rabbits imported from England US/the World
04/22/1860
Explorer John McDouall Stuart reaches the center of the Australian Continent US/the World
07/01/1851
Great Britain declares Victoria, Australia to be a separate colony Foreign
08/05/1850
Great Britain grants considerable autonomy to the Australian colonies through the Australian Government Act Foreign
07/16/1855
Great Britain grants limited self-government to Australia Foreign
08/23/1858
- 08/24/1858
Passenger ship bound for Australia catches fire in the South Atlantic, six hundred miles from land Crime/Disasters
10/12/1867
Royal Navy ship commanded by Queen Victoria's second son survives a typhoon in the Indian Ocean. Crime/Disasters
11/23/1852
Six tons of bullion from the new Australian goldfields arrives in London Business/Industry
07/27/1860
Sixty-nine pound gold nugget dug up in the Australian gold fields Business/Industry
05/26/1853
The British practice of shipping convicts to the Australian island of Tasmania comes to an end. Foreign
