Events
- 25 January — The first assembly of the Federal Council of Australasia is held in Hobart.
- 31 May — The SS Ly-Ee-Moon sinks off Green Cape, New South Wales, with the loss of 71 persons
- 12 June — William Spence chairs a meeting of shearers in Ballarat, Victoria at which the Amalgamated Shearers' Union is formed, later part of the Australian Workers' Union.
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