1899 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1899 in Australia.

1899
in
Australia

Decades:
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
See also:

Incumbents

Governors of the Australian colonies

Premiers of the Australian colonies

Events

Arts and literature

Sport

  • Merriwee wins the Melbourne Cup
  • Victoria wins the Sheffield Shield

Births

  • 7 January – John Collins, Chief of Naval Staff and High Commissioner to New Zealand (died 1989)
  • 17 January – Nevil Shute, writer (died 1960)
  • 21 January – Ernestine Hill, travel writer (died 1972)
  • 22 February – Ian Clunies Ross, scientist (died 1959)
  • 7 March – Eddie Ward, politician (died 1963)
  • 3 September – Frank Macfarlane Burnet, biologist and Nobel Prize winner (died 1985)
  • 24 September – William Dobell, artist, sculptor and painter (died 1970)
  • 21 October – Herb Steinohrt, rugby league footballer (died 1985)
  • 14 December – Frank McMillan, rugby league footballer and coach (died 1966)

Date unknown

Deaths

gollark: I mean, some of the issues I have would be gone without market systems, yes, but you would then introduce new much bigger ones.
gollark: No, I like that one.
gollark: The problems I have with our system are more about issues we ended up with than the entire general concept of markets.
gollark: You could complain that this is due to indoctrination of some sort by... someone, and maybe this is true (EDIT: but you could probably just change that and it would be easier than reworking the entire economy). But you can quite easily see examples of people just not actually caring about hardships far away, and I think this is a thing throughout history.
gollark: What I'm saying is that, despite some problems, our market system is pretty effective at making the things people involved in it want. And most people do not *actually* want to help people elsewhere much if it comes at cost to them.

References

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