1873 in Australia

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9 December – More than 1,000 striking gold miners attack police and Chinese workers brought in to Clunes, Victoria to break the strike.
30 December – Elizabeth Woolcock is hanged at the Adelaide Gaol, the only woman to be executed in South Australia.^[1]

19 July – Surveyor William Gosse names "Ayers Rock" after the Premier of South Australia Henry Ayers (later changed to its Indigenous name, Uluru).^[2]
3 September – The town of Cooktown, Queensland is founded after gold is discovered at the Palmer River, sparking a gold rush.^[3]

28 January – Monty Noble, cricketer (d. 1940)
21 August – Fred Leist, artist (d. 1945)
2 September – Lily Poulett-Harris, founder of women's cricket in Australia (d. 1897)

28 January – John Hart, 10th Premier of South Australia (b. 1809)
19 April – Hamilton Hume, explorer (b. 1797)
30 May – Thomas Gilbert, South Australian pioneer (b. 1789)
22 June – Terence Aubrey Murray, NSW politician (b. 1810)
12 November – David Lennox, bridge-builder (b. 1788)
11 December – John West, clergyman, writer and editor of The Sydney Morning Herald (b. 1809)
24 December – Madame Rens, New South Wales settler and merchant (b. 1789)

^ Peters, Allan L. (2008). Dead woman walking : was an innocent woman hanged?. Seaford, Vic.: Bas Pub. ISBN 978-1-920910-94-5. OCLC 271681044.
^ "Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park: Park History". Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 27 July 2007.
^ Holthouse, Hector (1994). River of gold : the wild days of the Palmer River gold rush. Pymble, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson. ISBN 0-207-18778-9. OCLC 222014060.

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