1849 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1849 in Australia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch - Victoria

Governors
Governors of the Australian colonies:
 * Governor of New South Wales – Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
 * Governor of South Australia – Sir Henry Fox Young
 * Governor of Tasmania – Sir William Denison
 * Governor of Western Australia as a Crown Colony – Captain Charles Fitzgerald

Events

 * 26 January – The Australasian Anti-Transportation League is formed during a public meeting at Launceston, Tasmania; later branches were formed in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canterbury (New Zealand).
 * 23 February – Public meeting in Perth calls for introduction of convicts to the help the colony's depressed economy, first consignment arrive in the following June.
 * May – A clash between European settlers and Aboriginal Australians resulted in the Waterloo Bay massacre.

Births

 * 18 January – Sir Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia and inaugural High Court justice (d. 1920)
 * 11 February – Fred Bamford, Queensland politician (d. 1934)
 * 26 March – Edwin Evans, cricketer (d. 1921)
 * 27 July – Archibald Watson, surgeon (d. 1940)
 * 8 August – Hume Nisbet, novelist and artist (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1923)
 * 17 August – William Kidston, 17th Premier of Queensland (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1919)
 * 29 August – Sir John Sulman, architect (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1934)
 * 22 September – Alexander Forrest, Western Australian politician and explorer (d. 1901)
 * 24 September – Justin Foxton, Queensland politician (d. 1916)
 * 5 November – Sir Lancelot Stirling, South Australian politician (d. 1932)
 * 2 December – Frank Allan, cricketer (d. 1917)
 * 28 December – Dugald Thomson, New South Wales politician (born in the United Kingdom) (d. 1922)