title: 1893 in Australia
text: The following lists events that happened during 1893 in Australia.
  
  Incumbents
  
  Premiers
  Premier of New South Wales – George Dibbs
  Premier of South Australia – John Downer (until 16 June) then Charles Kingston
  Premier of Queensland – Samuel Griffith (until 27 March), Thomas McIlwraith (until 27 October) then Hugh Nelson
  Premier of Tasmania – Henry Dobson
  Premier of Western Australia – John Forrest
  Premier of Victoria – William Shiels (until 23 January) then James Patterson
  
  Governors
  Governor of New South Wales – Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey until March, then Robert Duff 
  Governor of Queensland – Henry Wylie Norman 
  Governor of South Australia – Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore 
  Governor of Tasmania – Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston
  Governor of Victoria – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow 
  Governor of Western Australia – William C. F. Robinson
  
  Events
   30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893.
   4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland.
   14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
   Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms
   Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
   Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria spends time hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia
  
  Arts and literature
  
  Sport
   Tarcoola wins the Melbourne Cup
   Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield Shield
  
  Births
   10 January – Albert Jacka (died 1932), recipient of the Victoria Cross
   11 January – Charles "Chook" Fraser (died 1981), rugby league footballer and coach
   13 January – Roy Cazaly (died 1963), Australian Rules footballer
   8 October – William Morrison (died 1961), Governor General of Australia
   2 December – Raphael Cilento (died 1985), medical administrator
   9 December – Ivo Whitton (died 1967), golfer
  
  Deaths
   4 September – Francis William Adams, writer (born 1862)
   17 October – Josiah Howell Bagster, land agent and politician (born 1847)
  
  Footnotes
  
   
  Australia
  Years of the 19th century in Australia