See also: 1909 in Australia, other events of 1910, 1911 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch – King Edward VII (until 6 May), then King George V
• Governor-General – William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley
• Prime Minister – Alfred Deakin (until April 29), then Andrew Fisher

[edit] State premiers

• Premier of New South Wales – Charles Wade (until October 1), then James McGowen
• Premier of South Australia – Archibald Peake (until June 3), then John Verran
• Premier of Queensland – William Kidston
• Premier of Tasmania – Sir Neil Elliott Lewis
• Premier of Western Australia – Sir Newton Moore (until September 16), then Frank Wilson
• Premier of Victoria – John Murray

[edit] State governors

• Governor of New South Wales – Frederic Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford
• Governor of South Australia – Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet
• Governor of Queensland – Sir William MacGregor
• Governor of Tasmania – Major General Sir Harry Barron
• Governor of Western Australia – Sir Gerald Strickland
• Governor of Victoria – Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael

[edit] Events

• March 21 – Harry Houdini achieves one of the first powered flights in Australia.
• April 13 – A referendum is held into alteration of the Australian Constitution regarding state debt and surplus revenue. The state debt question was carried, the surplus revenue question was not.^[1]
• May 6 – King Edward VII dies, his son George V becomes King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions.
• September 16 – The Australian Treasury is given authority to issue currency, replacing the use of the British Pound.
• November 16 – The Northern Territory Acceptance Act 1910 receives Royal Assent from the Governor-General, transferring the Northern Territory from the control of South Australia to the Commonwealth.^[2]
• November 19 – A cyclone strikes the town of Broome, Western Australia, killing 40 people and destroying 20 houses.^[3]
• November 25 – The Royal Australian Navy is created with the passing of the Australian Naval Defence Act by the Federal Parliament. The destroyers HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Yarra arrive in Australia.
• December 8 – Geelong, Victoria is declared a city.

[edit] Science & Technology

Dethridge wheel in 1936 - Victoria Australia

• Dethridge wheel developed - used to measure flow of irrigation water delivered to farms

[edit] Arts and literature

• Henry Handel Richardson's novel The Getting of Wisdom published

[edit] Film

[edit] Sport

• Comedy King wins the Melbourne Cup
• South Australia wins the Sheffield Shield
• The 1910 NSWRFL season culminates in a grand final between South Sydney and Newtown which is drawn 4 - 4. Newtown are crowned premiers by virtue of being minor premiers.

[edit] Births

• January 11 – Shane Paltridge (d. 1966), politician
• January 28 – Jim Willis (d. 1995), botanist
• April 7 – Alec Downer (d. 1981), politician
• April 10 – Bob Marshall (d. 2004), billiards champion
• April 17 – Ivan Goff (d. 1999), screenwriter
• May 2 – Laurie Nash (d. 1986), cricketer and footballer
• May 11 – John Béchervaise (d. 1998), Antarctic explorer
• July 16 – Stan McCabe (d. 1968), cricketer
• July 22 – Alan Moorehead (d. 1983), war correspondent
• August 22 – Kenneth McIntyre (d. 2004), historian and mathematician
• August 28 Kathleen Best (d. 1957), first director of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps
• August 28 – Tom Burke (d. 1973), politician
• September 24 – Douglas Darby (d. 1985), politician
• October 1 – José Enrique Moyal, Palesrinian-born mathematical physicist (d. 1998)

[edit] Deaths

• January 4 – Sir Frederick Darley (b. 1830), Chief Justice of NSW
• January 18 – James Cuthbertson (b. 1851), poet and schoolteacher
• January 29 – Sir Charles Todd (b. 1826), astronomer
• March 19 – James Smith (b. 1820), journalist
• April 3 – Catherine Helen Spence (b. 1825), writer and social reformer
• April 25 – Edward William O'Sullivan (b. 1846), journalist and politician
• May 27 – George Britton Halford (b. 1824), anatomist and physiologist
• June 25 – Field Flowers Goe (b. 1832), Anglican bishop
• July 20 – Anderson Dawson (b. 1863), Premier of Queensland (1899)
• August 22 – George Palmer (b. 1859), cricketer
• August 26 – Thomas Petrie (b. 1831), explorer and grazier
• August 30 – George Throssell (b. 1840), Premier of Western Australia (1901)
• September 23 – Tup Scott (b. 1858), cricketer
• November 14 – Charles Gregory (b. 1878), cricketer

[edit] See also

• 1910
• 1910s

[edit] References