Christopher Allingham takes up Muralambeen, a pastoral run of more than 1300 acres east of Ingham.
John Atherton settles near Mareeba, near the junction of the Barron River and Emerald Creek.
Reverend Father Pierre Bucas selected 1680 acres of coastal land north of Mackay to provide a new home for displaced Aborigines.
The rich St Patrick Block was found in Charters Towers.
The annual Clermont Show week was taken over by the Peak Downs Pastoral and Agriculture Society.
Cooktown was incorporated as a municipality.
The Australian Handbook recorded Copperfield as having an estimated population of 2000 people, a town newspaper, the Copperfield Miner, Church of England, Catholic, Presbyterian and Wesleyan churches and eight hotels.
June
Hodgkinson Minerals Area (Kingsborough and Thornborough) proclaimed.
November
1 Trinity Bay declared a port of entry and clearance and named after the Governor of Queensland, Sir William Cairns.