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For the 150th anniversary celebrations of St James the Less, Mt Eliza Compiled by D. Horscroft, 2015. Although every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the entries, no responsibility is taken for any errors. 1 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 WORLD American Civil War ends Diamonds discovered in South Africa Canada as a nation is born, from three separate provinces ‘Little Women’ by Louisa M. Alcott published Suez Canal opens AUSTRALIA Arnott’s Biscuits founded Protective tariffs introduced in Victoria National Gallery of Victoria has its first students The last convict ship arrives in WA, ending transportation Largest ever gold nugget found near Dunolly, Victoria 95kg called ‘Welcome Stranger’ PEOPLE John Monash is born 1865 – 1931 John McDouall Stuart dies 1815 – 1866 Henry Lawson born 1867 – 1922 Geelong Woollen Co. sets up first woollen mill in Australia The ‘Stolen Generation’ begins 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 WORLD Education becomes compulsory in England Chicago fire 300 lost their lives 100,000 homeless Yellowstone National Park, USA opens E. Remington & Sons start production of the first practical typewriter in USA World’s First civic public park, Birkenhead Park opened in England AUSTRALIA Melbourne Town Hall opened Australia’s first synagogue opens in Adelaide, SA Overland Telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin opened. Uluru first reached and climbed by Europeans Wool exported to Japan for the first time PEOPLE Adam Lindsay Gordon died. 1833-1870 Stanley meets Livingstone in Africa Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse Code, dies 1791-1872 F. von Mueller retires as founding director of Melb. Botanical Gardens Marcus Clarke writes ‘For the term of his natural life’

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For the 150th anniversary celebrations of St James the Less, Mt Eliza

Compiled by D. Horscroft, 2015. Although every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the entries, no responsibility is taken for any errors. 1

1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 WORLD American Civil War

ends

Diamonds discovered in South Africa

Canada as a nation is born, from three

separate provinces

‘Little Women’ by Louisa M. Alcott

published Suez Canal opens

AUSTRALIA Arnott’s Biscuits founded

Protective tariffs introduced in

Victoria

National Gallery of Victoria has its first

students

The last convict ship arrives in WA,

ending transportation

Largest ever gold nugget found near Dunolly, Victoria 95kg called ‘Welcome Stranger’

PEOPLE John Monash is born 1865 – 1931

John McDouall Stuart dies

1815 – 1866

Henry Lawson born 1867 – 1922

Geelong Woollen Co. sets up first woollen

mill in Australia

The ‘Stolen Generation’ begins

1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 WORLD

Education becomes compulsory in

England

Chicago fire 300 lost their lives 100,000 homeless

Yellowstone National Park, USA

opens

E. Remington & Sons start production of the first practical typewriter in USA

World’s First civic public park,

Birkenhead Park opened in England

AUSTRALIA Melbourne Town Hall opened

Australia’s first synagogue opens in

Adelaide, SA

Overland Telegraph from Adelaide to Darwin opened.

Uluru first reached and climbed by

Europeans

Wool exported to Japan for the first

time

PEOPLE Adam Lindsay Gordon died. 1833-1870

Stanley meets Livingstone in Africa

Samuel Morse, inventor of the

Morse Code, dies 1791-1872

F. von Mueller retires as founding

director of Melb. Botanical Gardens

Marcus Clarke writes ‘For the term

of his natural life’

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1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 WORLD Electric dental drill

is patented

Alexander Graham Bell patents the

telephone

Thomas Edison patents the phonograph

Clipper ship ‘Loch Ard’ wrecked

Edison invents electric light

AUSTRALIA Victorian inter-

colonial exhibition held

NZ connected to Australia by submarine

telegraphic cable

First international cricket match

against England

Queen Victoria Market in

Melbourne opened

Foundation stone of Royal Exhibition

Building laid

PEOPLE Margaret Preston, artist

born: 1875-1963 Charles La Trobe dies: 1801-1875

Walter Burley Griffin born

1876-1937

Hans Heysen, artist, born

1877-1968

Ned Kelly robs Euroa bank

Norman Lindsay, artist, born 1879-1969

1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 WORLD First Boer War

begins

Work begins on the building of the Panama Canal

First cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for UK

The first trip by ‘The Orient Express’ joins Europe and Turkey

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents ‘flaked cereal’

AUSTRALIA Victorian parliament was first to open in

Australia

Census has the country’s population as approx. 2,250,194

Brisbane is the first city to get electric

lighting

NSW & Victorian railways met at

Albury

Sydney & Melbourne connected by

telegraph

PEOPLE Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan

Wyatt Earp & others in gunfight at OK

Corral, in Tombstone , Arizona

Douglas Mawson born 1882-1958

Percy Grainger born 1882-1961

Stanley Bruce, future Prime Minister, born

1883-1967

Sir Thomas Blaney born, only Aust. to attain rank of Field

Marshall 1884-1951

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1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 WORLD

BHP registered as a company

Statue of Liberty in New York was

dedicated

Barbed wire is patented

1st known recording of classical music, on

wax cylinder: Handel’s Israel in Egypt

Eiffel Tower opened

AUSTRALIA Visiting English

journalist coined the term ‘Marvellous

Melbourne’

George Mackenzie Angus & George Robertson begin

bookselling

Construction of Golbourn Weir, one

of Aust’s earliest irrigation schemes

Prince’s Bridge Melbourne opened

‘Clancy of the Overflow’ published

PEOPLE Dorothy McKellar,

John Curtin & Ben Chiffley born

Tom Roberts paints ‘Coming South’

Conan Doyle’s first book published ‘A Study in Scarlet’

George Eastman’s first camera ‘Kodak

box camera’ patented

Peter Lalor, Eureka Stockade leader dies

1827-1889

1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 WORLD

Ellis Island opens as a US immigration

centre

Game of ‘Basketball’ created by James

Naismith in US

Diesel engine patented

NZ grants women the vote

Intern’l Olympic Committee founded by Pierre Coubertin

AUSTRALIA University of Tasmania opens

National census has population as

3,174,392

Aust. Cricket Council starts inter colonial

competition ‘Sheffield Shield’

Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie

SA the first colony to give equal franchise to men and women

PEOPLE Banjo Paterson

publishes ‘Man from Snowy River’

Shearers’ strike leads to formation of

Aust. Labor Party

John Simpson Kirkpatrick born

(Simpson’s Donkey) 1892-1915

Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield

Shield

‘Seven Little Australians’

published by Ethel Turner

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1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 WORLD X-Rays discovered

First of the Modern Olympics held in

Athens

Thomas Edison patents his movie

camera

Radium discovered by Pierre and Marie

Curie Second Boer War More than 10,000

Australians went to South Africa for the

war effort AUSTRALIA Launceston

powered by hydro-electricity

Edwin Flack, from Melbourne’

participates in Olympics, wins 2 Gold & 1 Bronze

medals

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne

consecrated

Referendum held on draft constitution. Only NSW vetoes

PEOPLE ‘Waltzing Matilda’ first performed at

Winton, Queensland.

Charles Kingsford Smith born 1897-

1935

Howard W. Florey, Aust. pharmacologist,

Nobel Prize winner 1898-1968

Neville Shute born 1899-1960

1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 WORLD

Olympic Games in Paris. Fred Lane

(Aust.) wins 2 Golds

First Trans-Atlantic radio signal:

UK to Newfoundland

Teddy Bears appear in USA for first time

Prussia is 1st country to introduce driving

licence test

‘Peter Pan’ by J.M. Barrie premieres in

London

AUSTRALIA Construction of Flinders Street Station begins

Commonwealth of Australia formed

White women get the vote

First Australian Federal Election

Labor Party gains national government

for the first time

PEOPLE Neville Howse, 1st

Aust. to receive Victoria Cross (In

2nd Boer War)

Edward John Eyre, explorer, dies

1815-1901

Albert Namatjira , painter born 1902-1959

Orville Wright takes to the air for 12 seconds

Death of Alfred Felton, benefactor of

NGV 1831-1904

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1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 WORLD

Albert Einstein develops ‘Theory of

Relativity’

San Francisco earthquake

Cabs with taxi meters begin

operating in London

Model ‘T’ Ford produced

Louis Bleriot is first man to fly across English Channel

AUSTRALIA Penny Post between England & Australia

introduced

Melb. Symphony Orchestra plays first

concert

Rabbit Proof Fence built 3276 Km Cost: £250,000

Canberra site chosen for the national

capital

First powered flight in Australia

PEOPLE Stanley Hawes, Aust. film producer born

1905-1991

Female doctor prevented from

joining Prince Alfred Hospital resident

staff

Edward “Weary” Dunlop born 1907-1993

Dorothea McKellar publ. ‘My Country’ Donald Bradman born 1908-2001

‘Wallabies’ first used for Aust. RU team tour 1908-1909

1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 WORLD

Union of South Africa formed, from

several colonies

Amundsen reaches the South Pole.

Robert Scott fails

Sinking of the ‘Titanic’ in the Atlantic Ocean

1st moving assembly line

developed by Henry Ford

Austrian Archduke Ferdinand

assassinated. World War 1 begins

AUSTRALIA Geelong

incorporated as a city

R.A.N. founded and ACT proclaimed

Luna Park, Melbourne opened

Foundation stone for Canberra laid

416,809 Australians enlist for

WW1

PEOPLE 1st Oz sustained flight ‘of nearly 5

minutes’ at Diggers Rest by H. Houdini

Irving Berlin writes ‘Alexander’s

Ragtime Band’

Walter Burley Griffin wins competition for design of Canberra

Smokey Dawson born

1913-2008

112,399 Victorian males enlist for

WW1

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1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 WORLD ‘Lusitania’ sunk by

German submarine Easter Rebellion in

Ireland

Russian Revolution Tsar and family

executed

End of World War 1. 60,000 Aust. dead 155,000 wounded

Alcock & Brown fly the Atlantic Ocean

AUSTRALIA April 25 – Gallipoli landings by ANZACs

Sydney Conservatorium accepts students

Referendum on conscription for the

war says ’No’

‘The Magic Pudding’ written by

Norman Lindsay

Film made of ‘The Sentimental Bloke’. The first

Australian female film star, Lottie

Lyall, is in the film. PEOPLE

C. J. Dennis writes ’The Sentimental

Bloke’

Bars and pubs close at 6pm, the start of

the ‘Six o’clock Swill’

Fred McCubbbin, artist, dies 1855-1917

Worldwide influenza epidemic

1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 WORLD

Logie Baird transmits human

features by TV

General Strike in Britain

German economy collapses

Alexander Fleming develops penicillin

at St Mary’s Hospital, London

The Great Depression

AUSTRALIA The Ford Motor Co. buys 100 acres at Geelong for motor

production

The first ‘Miss Australia”

competition is held

Opening of new Parliament building.

Nellie Melba sings the National Anthem

Aeroplane Jelly company formed

The Ghan Railway opens from Adelaide

to Alice Springs

PEOPLE Adolf Hitler publishes

‘Mein Kampf’’

Dame Joan Sutherland is born

1926-2010

Lindberg is first to fly non-stop from New York to Paris

Rev. John Flynn founds Flying Doctor

Service

Peter Thompson, golfer born

1929-

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1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 WORLD Jet engine developed

by Frank Whittle, UK Earthquake in

Napier, New Zealand

Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, USA

The game of ‘Monopoly’ is invented

‘Catseyes’ are invented in UK by

Percy Shaw

AUSTRALIA Amy Johnson arrives

Darwin on first female solo flight

Douglas Mawson charts Antarctica. 42% for Australia

Sydney Harbour Bridge opens

‘Australian Women’s Weekly’ launched

England Australia MacRobertson

Air Race.

PEOPLE Bradman scores

world record total in Sheffield Shield of

452n.o.

Harry Lassiter dies on expedition to find

his reef

Amelia Earhart flies solo across the

Atlantic

England v. Australia ‘Bodyline Series’

1932-1933

R.M. Williams sets up business as bush

outfitter

1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 WORLD

Canned beer appears for the first

time

First public TV broadcast in UK

Hindenburg Airship disaster

Anti-Semitic marches & ‘Kristallnacht’

in Germany

Start of World War 2

AUSTRALIA International Scout Jamboree held in Oz for

1st time at Frankston Last Thylacine dies

Dawn Fraser (Apr); Lindsay Fox (Sept); Kerry Packer (Dec)

all born this year

Empire Games in Sydney

Black Friday Bushfires in Victoria

PEOPLE Malcolm Campbell

sets new land speed world record.

King Edward VIII abdicates

Amelia Earhart lost in the Pacific

Orson Welles’ radio broadcast

‘War of the Worlds’

Premier of the film ’Gone with the Wind’

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1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 WORLD

1940-45 London Underground

platforms are used as air raid shelters

‘Enigma Code’ broken

Battle of Kokoda Track

‘Dam Buster’ raids on German dams by RAF 615 Squadron

D-Day: ‘Operation Overlord’

AUSTRALIA Double decker buses

replace last cable trams in Melbourne

24,000 Australians at Tobruk:

‘Rats of Tobruk’

National Daylight Saving introduced

Japanese submarine torpedoes & sinks

hospital ship off east coast. 268 killed

PBS introduced

PEOPLE W. Churchill makes inspiring speeches: ‘We will fight them on the beaches…’

Single men, 18-45 & married men aged 18-35, called up in

Australia

Ita Buttrose born

1st ‘Oscar’ for Australian, Damien

Parer for doco “Kokoda Front Line”

Benjamin Green (US) invents

sunscreen

1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 WORLD ‘United Nations’

formed

Tupperware1st sold (in departmental & hardware stores)

India & Pakistan gain independence

Burma & Ceylon gain independence

Apartheid introduced to South

Africa

AUSTRALIA ‘The Liberal Party of Australia’ formed

‘Redhead’ matches introduced

Sugar rationing ends Permanent research station established

on Macquarie Island

Snowy mountain Scheme begins

construction

PEOPLE Sydney to Hobart

Yacht Race is inaugurated

Benjamin Spock’s childcare classic

published

Anne Frank’s diary published

Gandhi assassinated

George Orwell published “Nineteen

Eighty Four”

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1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 WORLD Start of the

Korean War

The Rosenbergs pass secrets to the

Russians

Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland

Crick & Watson publish on DNA

double helix

First atomic submarine launched

‘USS Nautilus’

AUSTRALIA Australian troops to Korea

Howard Arkley, artist, born 1951-1999

First nuclear test on Australian soil

Korean War ends, 278 Australian lives

lost.

Queen and Prince Phillip visit Australia

PEOPLE ‘McCarthyism’ begins

US disc jockey coins the phrase

‘Rock and Roll’

King George VI dies, Queen Elizabeth II

accedes

Everest climbed by Edmund Hillary &

Tensing Norgay

Black Box Flight Recorder developed by Dr. David Warren

in Australia

1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 WORLD

Rosa Parks refuses to sit at the back of

the bus

Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Ron Clarke lights the

flame

The song ‘A Pub with no Beer’ is an international hit.

European Economic Community (EEC) becomes effective

Alaska & Hawaii become the 49th sad

50th states of USA

AUSTRALIA Australia’s millionth

post-war migrant arrives

Television arrives in Australia

Patrick White writes ‘Voss’

‘Logies’ are introduced

Qantas introduce Boeing 707 on Sydney to San

Francisco flights

PEOPLE Ray Croc (US) opens

a fast food restaurant called

“MacDonald’s”

Edna Everage makes her first appearance

Miles Franklin Award for literature

is instigated

Johnny O’Keefe’s “The Wild One” is No. 1 single on the Australian charts

Death of Errol Flynn, film star

1909-1959

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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 WORLD

‘Coronation Street’ premiers on UK

television Cuban crisis

Oral Polio vaccine is developed by Albert

Sabin

Assassination of John F Kennedy, US

president

Compulsory military service for 18-25 yr old Australian men

AUSTRALIA Ford Motor

Company begins manufacturing in

Australia

Rod Laver wins Wimbledon

The Menzies Act gives all indigenous people the right to

vote

Sir John Eccles wins Nobel Prize for work

on the Nervous System

HMAS Voyager sinks after crash with

HMAS Melbourne

PEOPLE Gary Powers in US

spy plane shot down over Russia

The first man in orbit around the

earth is Russian Yuri Gagarin

‘The Seekers’ form as a group, with

singer Judith Durham

Profumo scandal in UK

‘The Beatles’ arrive in Australia

1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 WORLD

Canada acquires a new flag with maple

leaf emblem

“Swinging London” defined by Time

Magazine

Indigenous Australians counted in population for the

first time

Death of Martin Luther King: ‘I have

a dream…’

Neil Armstrong is the 1st man on the moon: “One Small

step for man…”

AUSTRALIA Australia enters Vietnam War

Decimalisation Black Tuesday

bushfires in Tasmania

“Skippy” the kangaroo makes 1st appearance on TV

La Mama theatre opens with Jack

Hibbert’s “Three Old Friends”

PEOPLE Jean Shrimpton

wears mini skirt to Derby Day. 10cm above the knee!

Robert Menzies retires as longest

serving PM 1949-1966

Disappearance of Harold Holt whilst

swimming Kylie Minogue born

Death of May Gibbs 1877-1969

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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 WORLD

Rhodesia separates from the

Commonwealth due to apartheid

The Aswan Dam in Egypt is completed

11 Israeli athletes killed at Olympics, ‘Black September’ group responsible

Vietnam War ends. Australians

withdrew Dec ’72. 61,000 had served, 500 were killed and

3,129 wounded

Richard Nixon, US president resigns

AUSTRALIA West Gate Bridge collapse, kills 35

South Australia bushfires kill 75,

injure 800

Queensland abandons Daylight

Saving

Darwin hit by ‘Cyclone Tracy” on

Christmas Day

PEOPLE Margaret Court wins Grand Slam: the US, Australian, French &

Wimbledon titles.

Paul McCartney announces that ‘The

Beatles’ have disbanded

Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected.

Sydney Opera House opened by HM

Queen Elizabeth II

“Mungo Man” found at Willandra NP, NSW. Possibly

63,000 years old.

1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 WORLD IRA bombs in

London

Commandos attack Entebbe Airport to free 103 hostages

Steve Biko dies whilst in police

custody in S. Africa

Rhodesia agrees to black majority rule

Shah leaves Iran

AUSTRALIA Hobart bridge collapse

5 building societies in Queensland

suspended Granville rail crash

Sydney Hilton Hotel bombs explode. 1st act of terrorism in

Australia

Kakadu & Great Barrier Reef both declared National

Parks

PEOPLE Governor General

John Kerr dismisses Gough Whitlam

1st cases of Legionnaire disease:

kills 29 in Philadelphia, USA

Abba arrive in Australia

John Paul I dies unexpectedly after

34 days as Pope

Dennis Lillee uses aluminium cricket

bat

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1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 WORLD John Lennon shot in

New York AIDS first identified

Commonwealth Games in Brisbane

Australian dollar floated

Indira Gandhi killed

AUSTRALIA Evonne Goolagong wins Wimbledon

Referendum in Tasmania on the

Franklin Dam build

National Gallery of Australia opens in

Canberra

Australia wins America’s Cup

‘Advance Australia Fair’ proclaimed as

National Anthem

PEOPLE Disappearance of

Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru

Greg Chappell (capt) has brother Trevor bowl the last ball underarm v. NZ

Princess Grace of Monaco killed in car

crash

Prof. Graeme Clark & team develop

Bionic Ear in Melbourne

Medicare established

1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 WORLD

PLO terrorists attack Achille Lauro, an

Italian Cruise ship

UK Parliament no longer able to

influence Oz law

Earthquake in Los Angeles injures 19

Brisbane hosts World Expo ‘88

Tiananmen Square protest

AUSTRALIA ‘Neighbours’ begins transmission on TV

Russell Street bombing, Melbourne

America’s Cup sailing races hosted

by Perth WA

Australia’s bicentenary

Earthquake in Newcastle, NSW

PEOPLE Boris Becker wins Wimbledon, aged 17

Greg Norman rated as World No. 1

at golf

’I should be so lucky’. The 1st single

for Kylie Minogue enters the charts.

Debbie Flintoff-King wins gold in

Olympics Women’s 400m by 0.01 secs!

Salman Rushdie’s book ‘Satanic

Verses’ deemed offensive

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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 WORLD East & West

Germany reunited Sanctions against South Africa lifted

Yugoslav federation is broken up

Buckingham Palace opens to public for

the first time

Nelson Mandela elected President of

South Africa

AUSTRALIA Dame Joan Sutherland

announces her retirement

Coode Island chemical storage facility explodes

Mabo Decision Australian ‘Greens’

stand in elections for the first time.

Attempts made to extradite

Christopher Skase from Spain

PEOPLE Nelson Mandela freed after more than 27 years in

prison

Shane Warne makes his debut in national cricket team against

Zimbabwe

Prince and Princess of Wales separate

First female Prime Minister in Canada

Toni Collette earns an AFI award for

“Muriel’s Wedding”

1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 WORLD Rwanda massacre

‘Oarsome Foursome’ win 2nd Gold at

Olympics in Atlanta

Comet Hale--Bopp closest to earth. Next closest is year 4397

European currency becomes ‘Euro’

Northern Ireland begins self-rule for first time in 25 yrs.

AUSTRALIA Qantas is privatised Port Arthur

massacre Pauline Hanson

forms ‘One Nation’ Sydney to Hobart

Yacht Race disaster Thredbo landslide

PEOPLE Trial of OJ Simpson Geoffrey Rush wins Best Actor Oscar for

‘Shine’.

Death of Princess Diana in car crash

Cate Blanchett wins Golden Globe &

Bafta for her role in “Elizabeth”

1st nonstop round the world balloon

flight takes 20 days

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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 WORLD Olympics held in

Sydney

Twin Towers attack in US. Osama bin

Laden identified as leader

East Timor is the world’s newest

nation

Concorde aircraft withdrawn from

service

Tsunami devastates parts of Asia

AUSTRALIA GST introduced Centenary of Federation

Bali bombings Australian military

deploy to Iraq

‘The Ghan’ begins travelling from

Darwin to Adelaide

PEOPLE Russell Crowe wins Best Actor Oscar for

‘Gladiator’

Miette dies in car accident

1950-2000

Nicole Kidman wins Best Actress Oscar

for ‘The Hours’

Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

in Burma

Cricketer David Hookes dies after a

fight

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 WORLD Islamic terrorist

bombings in London Commonwealth

Games in Melbourne

Ban Ki-Moon becomes new UN Secretary-General

Worldwide financial crisis

Barack Obama becomes first

African-American president of US

AUSTRALIA England win back ‘The Ashes’

Sydney’s hottest New Year’s Day:

45°C

Burnley Tunnel disaster

Eastlink Tollway completed

Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria

181 died

PEOPLE Cronulla riots Steve Irwin suffers

fatal accident

JK Rowling releases last book in Harry

Potter series

First female Governor General

Quentin Bryce appointed

Trooper Mark Donaldson awarded

Victoria Cross for actions in

Afghanistan

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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 WORLD Icelandic volcano

disrupts flights

Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude in

Christchurch, NZ

Queen Elizabeth II celebrates

Diamond Jubilee

$5 million worth of diamonds stolen at

Brussels airport

Malaysian Airline MH370 disappears

AUSTRALIA Major floods in

northern NSW and South Queensland

Major flooding in Queensland

4th & final inquest into the

disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain

International Fleet Review to mark

centenary of RAN’s arrival in Sydney

Toyota Australia announces it will

cease production in Australia in 2017

PEOPLE Engagement of

Prince William & Kate Middleton

Queen Elizabeth II visits Melbourne

Sachin Tendulkar 1st cricketer to score

100 international centuries

Lance Armstrong admits taking drugs

in all 7 ‘Tour de France’ wins

Posthumous award of VC to Cameron Baird. (Active in

Afghanistan)