1843 in Australia

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July – Up to 150 Indigenous Australians are murdered by Angus McMillan's men in the Warrigal Creek Massacre as part of a series of mass murders of Gunai Kurnai people known as the Gippsland massacres.
12 September – The Battle of One Tree Hill was a conflict between European settlers and Aboriginals.
Undated – The Argyle Cut in The Rocks is started, using convict labour, it is completed in 1864, using free labourers.^[1]
Undated – The War of Southern Queensland begins between a coalition of Aboriginal tribes in South East Queensland, the "United Tribes", and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland it would be fought until 1855.

September – John Ridley builds his invention, a corn stripper-harvester, in Hindmarsh.^[2]^[3]

22 December – John Bigge, judge and royal commissioner (born and died in the United Kingdom) (b. 1780)

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^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1986). "Part One: Capital City Chronologies. A History of Sydney". The Second Australian Almanac: An 800-page Databank Crammed with Essential Information for Every Australian. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 8. ISBN 0-207-15232-2.
^ "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention". South Australian Register. National Library of Australia. 9 September 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
^ Cameron, Angus, ed. (1985). "Part One: Facts and Figures: An Australian Historical Chronology". The Australian Almanac: 800 Pages Crammed with Australian and World Facts: Politics, the Arts, Geography, History and Much More. North Ryde, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson. p. 12. ISBN 0-207-15108-3.

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