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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)