1845 in Australia

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Incumbents

Governor of New South Wales – Sir George Gipps
Governor of South Australia – Sir George Grey (to 25 October), then Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Holt Robe
Governor of Tasmania – Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – John Hutt.

12 March – St John the Baptist Church in Reid Canberra is consecrated.
4 August – The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown.
20 July – Charles Sturt enters the Simpson Desert in central Australia.
21 June – News of the discovery of a rich body of copper ore at Burra, South Australia is published in Adelaide newspapers.
17 December – Ludwig Leichhardt arrives at Port Essington, Northern Territory, after an overland journey of 4800 km from Jimbour on the Darling Downs.^[1]
Undated – Port Augusta War ends^[2]
Undated – An unknown number of Indigenous Australians are killed in the Darkey Flat massacre.
Wool export in Australia – 24 million pounds.

5 August – John Blaxland, New South Wales politician and explorer (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1769)

^ 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, NSW: Angus & Robertson. p. 12. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.
^ cnet. "Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline". Australian Frontier Conflicts. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

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