Australian History Timeline

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1839 - Caroline Chisholm - English humanitarian, female immigrant welfare, Calendar of saints of the Church of England,  Catholic Church, Captain Chisholm, Sir George Gipps,

1880 - King O'Malley - Insurance salesman, Hobart, Zeehan, Launceston, Coolgardie, Adelaide, United Labor Party, Encounter Bay, Federationist, House of Representatives, Sir Edward Braddon, Australian Labor Party, Commonwealth Bank, anti-conscriptionist,

This is a listing of all history pages  in chronological order.

200AD - Origin of the name Australia, Matthew Flinders, Latin, australis, terra australis incognita, unknown southern land
1600 - British Empire, English Colonialism, The Americas, "informal empire", Asia, Pax Britannica, New Imperialism, white - settler colonies
1503 - Binot Paulmyer, French navigator who claimed to discover of Australia in 1505.
1605 - Willem Jansz, Dutch navigator, first European known to see Australia
1616 - Dirk Hartog, Holland, sea captain, explorer, second European arrival, Hartog plate, Western Australia, Willem de Vlamingh
1629 - The wreck of the Bativia, Dutch East India Company ship, wrecked off Geraldton, Western Australia.
1642 - Abel Janszoon Tasman, Dutch explorer who Discovered Tasmania
1696 - Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea, captain, south, west coast, New Holland, Rottnest Island, Swan River, Dirk Hartog Island
1678 - Whig Movement, British politics, Whigs, Liberal Democrats, great noble houses, moneyed interest, religious dissent, Tories, Jacobitism,
1770 - Captain James Cook, English explorer, Mapped the east coast of Australia.
1770 - Sir Joseph Banks, English Naturalist, sailed with James Cook, advised Arthur Phillip.
1770 - Australian Freemasonry, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain Cook, Flinders, merino sheep, 1770 - First Fleet, United Grand Lodge of England
1688 - Dampier, British navigator, Naturalist, visited Western Australia.
1786 - English Background to Transportation
1786 - Irish Background to Transportation
1786 - Phillip's Mandate, New South Wales defined and the First Fleet authorized.
1786 - Pitt's Plan for Botany Bay, Disposing of Felons, Growing "New Zealand Hemp"
1787 - The First Fleet, Transportation, Penal Colony, Governor Phillip, Botany Bay, Convicts, Rebellion.
1887-8 - Ships of the First Fleet - Alexander, Borrowdale, Charlotte, Fishburn, Friendship, Golden Grove, Lady Penrhyn, Prince of Wales, Scarborough, Sirius, Supply.
1787 - Rebellion on  the voyage over, Women Convicts, First Fleet, Transportation, flogging
1787 - John Towers at Tenerife, First Fleet, Escape at Tenerife
1788 - First British Settlement established in New South Wales.
1788 - Phillip, Arthur, Updated, The first Governor of NSW.
1788 - Collins, David, First Fleet, HMS Sirius, First Judge Advocate of New South Wales, First Lieutenant Governor of Van Dieman’s Land
1877 - Bare Island Fort - Sydney - Sydney - New South Wales - La Perouse - Colonial Architect Mr James Barnet
1788 - Dodd, Henry Edward, First Fleet Farmer, free man, Farm Cove, Governor Phillip, Rose Hill
1788 - Henry Waterhouse, First Fleet, officer, Sirius, Norfolk Island, Port Jackson, Supply, John Hunter, Reliance
1788 - Nathaniel Lucas, Convict, Feloniously Stealing, Seven Years, First Fleet, Norfolk Island, Philip Gidley King
1788 - John Munday, private marine, 18th (Plymouth) Company, New South Wales, First Fleet, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Norfolk Island
1788 - Richard Williams, Borrowdale, 2nd mate, First Fleet, aborigines
1788 - Thomas Lucas, First Fleet, Marine, Lady Juliana, Ann Howard, New South Wales corps, Daedalus, Norfolk Island, Governor Hunter
1788 - Peter Hibbs, Able Seaman, HMS Sirius, 25 March 1787 - Cascade Stream, Phillipsburg, Norfolk Island, Point Hibbs, HMS Porpoise
1788 - Watkin Tench, Royal Marine Corps, American War of Independence, First Fleet, captain - lieutenant, lieutenant - general
1788 - William Broughton, Charlotte, servant to Surgeon John White, storekeeper Parramatta, Norfolk Island acting deputy commissary
1788 - William Nash, Royal Marine, 58th (Plymouth) Company, 1st Fleeter, Prince of Wales, Port Jackson, Captain Shea, Maria Haynes
1788 - Trades of the First Fleet Convicts, Clog Maker, Button Stamper, Dressmaker, Embroiderer, Furrier, Glove - maker, Lace Maker
1788 - Welsh First Fleeters, A list of Welsh convicts and crew.
1788 - First Fleeters of Scottish Origin, A list of Scot in the First Fleet
1788 - Scott, James, Sergeant of Marines, First Fleet, Prince of Wales, Dixon Library, Sydney,
1788 - Nancy Yeats (Yates) - Female convict - Lady Penrhyn, David Collins, 1788 - James John Grant, Van Daemons land, Norfolk Island
1788 - Elizabeth Thackery, Manchester Assizes, stealing a silk handkerchief, convict, Friendship, Fighting Five, Charlotte, 1786 - Botany Bay
1788 - Convict Punishment, Flogging or scourging, The Iron Gang, Deep Transportation, Hanging.
1788 - Exploration of the Sydney Region, Arthur Phillip, Watkin Tench, John Wilson, John Shortland, George Caley
1788 - Anglo - Australians, English Imperial Authority, The Colonial ruling Class
1788 - Convict Flags of Origin, A register of the nationalities of the Convicts.
1788 - Australian flag reveals Australian history -
1788 - Women Convicts, Damned Whores, A Feminist View of the status of Women Convicts.
1788 - A Brief History of Australian Women, Significance of Sexual Imbalance., The Morality Debate,
1788 - La Perouse, French navigator, Botany Bay, Arthur Philip, First Fleet
1788 - James Ruse, Convict, Pioneer Farmer
1788 - Convict Release, Ticket of Leave, Pardon
1788 - John Nicol, Mariner, Second Fleet, Lady Julian, Captain Aitkin, Lieutenant Edgar, Sarah Whitlam
1788 - Penal Colony Fashion
1788 - Birth of Australian Painting -
1788 - NSW Police Force - History - Governor Phillip, New South Wales, Sydney , Governor Lachlan Macquarie, convicts, Water Police, the Border Police, Native Police, Governor Thomas Brisbane, Mounted Police, State Protection Group, Bushrangers,
1788 - Art of the First Fleet - Art, Painting, First Fleet, Portsmouth, New South Wales, Australia paintings, George Raper, Thomas Watling, The Port Jackson Painter
1788 - George Raper - 1788, water colour artist, midshipman, Royal Navy, HMS Sirius, First Fleet, New South Wales, Norfolk Island
1788 - The Port Jackson Painter - First Fleet artist, Sir Joseph Banks, London Natural History Museum, John White, Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales 1790,
1788 - Thomas Watling - First Fleet artist, convicted forger, Port Jackson Painter,
1789 - The NSW Corps, Rum Corps, Botany Bay Rangers, Castle Hill Uprising, Rum Rebellion
1789 - Tent Hospital Parramatta NSW
1789 - Parramatta Hospital - Picture Study
1789 - A timeline in the lives of the First Fleeters, Marines, Sirius, Smallpox, Aboriginal people, Broken Bay, Hawkesbury River
1789 - John Caesar Black Caesar, First Fleet Convict, Our first Bushranger
1790 - General Return of Male Convicts, List of names and occupations
1790 - West Indies Convicts - servants, slaves, London, theft, Sydney -
1790 - Wreck of the Sirius, Ralph Clark, Hunter, Governor King, William Bradley
1791 - Irish Evictees, Irish "Assisted Immigrants"
1791 - Mary Bryant The Girl From Botany Bay
1791 - Chinese Travellers, Convict Rebellion and Escape
1791 - Convict Betrayal, The New Holland Morning Post, 18th October 1791 - Arthur Phillip, All convicts to suffer death in exile
1791 - Convict Origins of the Trade Union Movement, Luddites, Last Labourers' Revolt, Last Labourers' Revolt, Tolpuddle Martyrs
1791 - Labillardiere Jacques, French Naturalist, Australian flora
1792 - Convict Transportation ship, Bellona - Matthew Boyd, William Boyd, Thomas and Jane Rose, 17 convict women, Deptford, Botany Bay, South Head, Sydney
1793 - Thomas Muir, Convict, Jacobeans, Constitutional Reform
1794 - Brewing in Australia, John Boston, Rum currency, Thomas Rushton, John Tooth, Charles Newman, Kent Brewery, Cascade, John Warren
1795 - John Hunter, Second governor New South Wales
1795 - Land Grants, Ticket of leave Convicts, Disposable Human Spears
1795 - Emancipists, Freed Slaves seeking Civil Rights in Colonial Australia
1976 - Dr George Bass, English Naval Surgeon and Explorer
1796 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia
1796 - Brief History of Wollongong, City of Wollongong, Illawarra Region, Bass and Flinders, Charles Throsby, James Meehani,
1797 - Irish Republicans, Defenders and United Irishman
1800 - Philip Gidley King, Third Governor of New South Wales
1800 - Bentham George, British botanist, 'Flora Australiensis'
1800 - Parramatta Infantry - Loyal Association Corps, Captain Thomas Rowley, Parramatta, Mr James
1801 - Nicolas Thomas Baudin , French explorer, 1801
1802 - Matthew Flinders, Navigator who circumnavigated and named Australia
1802 - Pike Rebellion, How the Reverend Samuel Marsden earned his name of the Flogging Parson
1802 - John Oxley, Surveyor - General of New South Wales, Naval Officer, Explorer
1803 - Chinese In Australian Commercial History, Furniture and cabinet making, Indentured Shepherds, Fishing, Fish Curing, Market Gardening
1804 - Hobart Town is established
1804 - Castle Hill Uprising, Birth of Australian Republicanism
1805 - John Adams, Convict Biography
1805 - William Bligh, 4th Governor of New South Wales deposed by the Rum Rebellion
1806 - John Rogan - From Convict To Pioneer William Fawcett, Convict Hulk Laurel, Portsmouth, Convict Hulk Fortune, Susannah Farning, Minstrel, Rogans Hill, The Hermitage
1807 - Van Daemon's Land Bolters, Tasmanian Convicts turned Bushrangers
1808 - Lachlan Macquarie, 6th Governor of New South Wales
1808 - Rum Rebellion, William Bligh, Rum Corps, John Macarthur, mutiny
1809 - 73rd Regiment of Foot - Governor Macquarie, MacLeod's Highlanders, Lt-Col M.C. O'Connell, Port Jackson, Sydney, Van Diemen's Land, Norfolk Island, Newcastle, South Head, Old South Head Road
1810 - Rose Cottage, Wilberforce - Thomas and Jane Rose Family Society Inc, Botany Bay, Strathfield, Hawkesbury, Wilberforce
1811 - Luddites, Luddites, Convicts, Trade Unionism
1812 - Michael Howe, Michael Howe, convict, rebel commander, bushranger, first Native Australian land claim
1813 - Early Attempts to Cross the Blue Mountains, William Dawes, Henry Hacking, George Bass, Francis Barrallier, George Caley
1813 - Gregory Blaxland, Free Settle, pioneer, explorer, Blue Mountains
1813 - William Charles Wentworth, Convict' son, Explorer, Blue Mountains, Editor, the Australian newspaper, Australian Patriotic Association
1813 - William Lawson, Ensign, New South Wales Corps, explorer, Blue Mountains
1813 - Exploration of South Eastern Australia, George William Evans, Archibald Bell, John Oxley, Thomas Whyte, John Howe, John Blackman
1814 - Coach Travel, William Highland, Royal Mail, Peter Cunningham, James Atkinson
1814 - A road across the Blue Mountains, Lachlan Macquarie, George Evans, William Cox, Major Thomas Mitchell, David Lennox
1814 - Australian Boxing, The Early Days - Broughton's Rules, London Prize Ring Rules, James Kelly, Young Kable, Ned Chalker, Young Bailey
1815 - Richard Bankin, Convict Biography, burglary, Prudence Perkins, Many Ann, Susanna, Sarah
1817 - 46th Regiment, the South Devons - British Army, 1741, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot, Sydney, Newcastle, Parramatta, Van Diemens Land, hostile Indigenes, escaped convicts and bushrangers
1817 - 48th Regiment of Foot (Northamptonshire) - Sydney, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Van Diemens Land, Parramatta
1818 - Colonial Hospital Parramatta, Governor Macquarie, Parramatta, John Watts,
1819 - Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney,Male convict Barracks, Female infirm, destitute asylum, Courts and Government Offices, Museum,
1819 - History of Australian Poetry, Barron Field, Australia, First Fruits of Australian Poetry, 1819, W. C. Wentworth, Charles Tompson, Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, 1826, Charles Harpur, Henry Kendall, George Gordon McCrae, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads, The Bulletin, Henry Lawson, Andrew Barton Paterson (who wrote under the name Banjo Paterson),  Joseph Furphy, Louis Becke,  Price Warung,  J. F. Archibald,  1890's, James Burton Stephens, George Essex Evans, Victor Daley (who used the pen name Creeve Roe), Bernard O'Dowd, Francis Adams, Dame Mary Gilmore, Hugh McCrae, Christopher Brennan, Shaw Neilson, C. J. Dennis
1819 - Commissioner Bigge, Inquiry, Convicts, Lachlan Macquarie, Wentworth, Macarthur, Rev. S. Marsden, Exclusivist
1819 - Alexander Pearce - convict, Tasmania, Van Diemen's Land, Hobart, Sarah Island, Macquarie Harbour, Cannibal, Thomas Cox
1820 - Currency Lads & Lasses,  Convict children, Unique Australian Culture
1820 - Arthur Thistlewood, English Revolutionary, Cato Street Conspiracy, Spa Fields Riot
1820 - Matthew Bradey, Australia's Robin Hood, Convict Rebel Leader, Bushranger, Daemon's Land
1820 - Convict Assignment, State administered slave labour force
1820 - Squatters, Illegal occupation of land, Ticket-of-Leave Convicts, emancipists, pioneers
1820 - Pioneer History ofthe Macleay River, Kempsey, 1820 - John Oxley, timber, cedar logging
1822 - Elizabeth Hawkins, Crossing the Blue Mountains, The diary of first family of white free settlers to cross the Blue Mountains
1823 - 3rd Regiment of the Line, the East Kents - The Buffs, New South Wales, Governor Darling, Port Macquarie, Port Dalrymple, Tasmania,  Parramatta, Liverpool, Newcastle, Wellington, Botany Bay, Bathurst, convicts
1823 - Musquito - Aboriginal Bushranger, Sydney, Tasmania, stockman, black tracker, Grindstone, Hobart
1824-Thomas Jeffries - convict, bolter, bushranger, Macquarie Harbour, Van Dieman’s Land, John Batman
1824 - Hume and Hovell Expedition - New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, Royal Navy Captain William Hovell, Mystery of  Western Rivers.
1824 - John Knatchbull, Convict, The Tea Sweeteners, arsenic, Norfolk Island
1824 - Richmond Gaol, Tasmania, Convicts, Penal Colony Institution, military barracks
1824 - Richmond Gaol, the Guided Tour, Tasmania, Room by room
1824 - Moreton Bay penal colony established in Queensland
1825 - Botamy Bay, Just for fun.
1825-Jack Donahue - bushranger, New South Wales, John Pagan, Parramatta, The Strippers,
1825 - Brisbane is established
1827 - Mitchell Sir Thomas L, Surveyor, General, Explorer, New South Wales, Darling River, Lachlan River, Murrumbidgee River, Murray Rivers
1828 - Exploration of Western NSW and Victoria, John Sturt, Hume, Angus McMillan, Paul Edmund de Strzelecki.
1828 - South African Convicts, Convicts, 1828 to 1838 - "the excitable classes", "South African blacks"
1828-Martin Cash - convict, bushranger, Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, Marquis of Huntly, Sydney Town
1829 - Establishment of Western Australia, Dirk Hartog, Willem de Vlamingh, William Dampier, Louis de Freycinet, British settlements
1829 - James Stirling, Western Australia, first Governor, British marine officer, Scotland, West Indies, Surrey, Mediterranean,
1830 - Scourging Statistics, New South Wales, Penal Colony, Convict punishment, cat - o' - nine tails
1830 - Captain Swing, Last Labourers' Revolt, Swing Riots, Swing letters, mechanisation, Corn Laws
1830 - The Bushranger Act - bushmasters, New South Wales, Sydney
1831 - Thomas Cook, Convict, Respectables, Incendiarists, The Exile's Lamentations.
1832 - Discovering Gold in New South Wales, 1832 - James Mc Brien, Fish River, 1851 - Bathurst, Edward Hargraves, W. B. Clarke
1833 - Port Arthur opens as a penal settlement in Tasmania.
1833 - Scourging, Expert Opinion, New South Wales, Penal Colony, Convict punishment, cat - o' - nine tails`
1833 - Norfolk Island Rebellion, Penal Colony, convict rebellion, Laurence Frayne, Commander Morisset, Captain Charles Sturt, Foster Fyans
1834 - William Delaforce, Convict biography, Port Macquarie
1834 - Tolpuddle Martyrs, English farm labourers, Transportation, Trade Union activities - George and James Loveless (or Lovelace), Convicts
1835 - Australian Patriotic Association, New South Wales, convicts, Emancipists, representative government, Constitution Act of 1842
1835 - Foundation of Melbourne, William Buckley, George Bass, James Grant, John Murray, Port Phillip, Charles Robbins, Charles Grimes,
1836 - South Australia established, with Adelaide as its capital.
1837 - French Canadian Rebels - Convict Offenses, Rebellion, tradesmen and farmers, Lower Canada (Quebec) militants, Upper Canada
1837 - Jackey Jackey - William Westwood, gentleman bushranger, Phillip Parker King, Goulburn, Berrima, Cockatoo Island, Port Jackson, Hobart, Norfolk Island
1837 - Ben Hall - bushranger, convict, New South Wales, Gentleman Bushranger, Felons Apprehension Act 1865, Wallis Plains, Hunter Valley, Murrurundi, Lachlan River, James Taylor, Humbug Creek, Lake Cowa, gold escort coach, Eugowra,
1838 - Timothy Hurley, Penal Colony Justice, Courts, Convict, Joseph Griffin
1838 - Charterism, Constitutional Government, Convict Offense, Transportation, Convicts, Penal Colony, New South Wales.
1839 - Caroline Chisholm - English humanitarian, female immigrant welfare, Calendar of saints of the Church of England,  Catholic Church, Captain Chisholm, Sir George Gipps,
1839 - Outback Camels and Afghan Camelmen, Joseph Bruce, John Gleeson, John Horrocks, Sub Inspector B.C. Besley, Thomas Elder,
1839 - Transportation of convicts to Queensland ceases
1840-Tommy Windich - Indigenous Australian, Black Tracker, Explorer, Western Australia
1840's - Queenslander House (architecture) - Housing Style, Interwar Houses, Middle Class Bungalow (‘Ashgrovian’) – 1930’s
1841 - Gods Police, Women, Penal Colony, New South Wales
1842 - Native Police Corps - Port Phillip District Colony of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, Captain William Lonsdale, Governor Richard Bourke, Henry EP Dana, Narre Narre Warren, Melbourne, Merri Creek, Wurundjeri Tribe, Bunurong Tribe, searching for missing persons, carrying messages, escorting dignataries, goldrush era, patrol goldfields, search for escaped convicts, Frederick Walker, Murrumbidgee River, Murray River, Edwards River
1842 - Mary Helen MacKillop - Mother Mary of the Cross, Saint, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, Fitzroy, Melbourne
1843 - Fort Scratchley - Newcastle - New South Wales - Lieutenant John Shortland - Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Scratchley - Japanese submarine
1844 - Exploration of Queensland and Northern Territory, Ludgig Leichhardt, T.L. Mitchell, E. B. Kennedy, A. C. Gregory, John Jardine
1842 - Free settlement is permitted in Queensland
1847 - Scourging, Eye witness accounts, Flogging, Punishment, convicts, Colonies, cat-o'-nine-tails
1847 - Federation, Early English Proposal, Earl Grey, 1847 - Colonies
1848 - Anti - Transportation League, Convict, Transportation, Hashemy, Randolph, New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land
1850 - Bushranging on theMainlandto1850 - John Donahoe, John Lynch, Scotchey and Witton, William Westwood, Comerford and Digman
1850 - Convicts to WA, Convict, Transportation, Western Australia, Western Australian economy, slave labour
1850 - Wild Colonial Boys, New South Wales, Lambing Flat Riots, bushrangers, Frank Gardiner, Ben Hall, John Gilbert, highwayman
1851 - Victoria separates from New South Wales
1851 - Gold in Victoria, James William Esmond, Ballarat, Bendigo
1851 - Finding Gold, Colony, Victoria, Ballarat, Diggers, Digging a shaft, Puddling, Crushing Quartz
1851 - Gold and Bushranging, Gold, Henry Garrett, Frank McCallum, George Melville, George Wilson, William Atkins, Black Douglas
1851 - Frank McCallum - Captain Melville, bushranger, Victorian Gold Rush, Francis Melville, Van Diemens Land, Melbourne, bushrangers, Black Forest, Ballarat, Port Phillip Bay
1852 - Federal Initiatives, Federation, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Constitution, responsible self - government
1853 - Cobb & Co, Australian land transport - coach travel, Freeman Cobb, James Rutherford, Bathurst NSW
1853 - Moondyne Joe - Joseph Bolitho Johns, Western Australia, Pyrenees, horse-stealing, Darling Range, Perth, South Australia, Houghton Winery, Louisa Hearn, Fremantle
1854 - Eureka Rebellion, In preparation, still, big
1854 - Eureka Rebellion Pictures - Picture gallery
1954 - Eureka Flags of Origin - Picture Gallery
1859 - Queensland separates from New South Wales
1860 - The Burke and Wills expedition leaves Melbourne
1860 - Chinese Diggers, Chinese, Colony, Victoria, gold, Ballarat, Bendigo
1860 - Intercolonial Conferences, tariff question, postal services, telegraphic communications, defence
1860 - Alpin McPherson, The Wild Scotchman, Bushranger, Queensland
1860 - Fort Queenscliff - Victoria - Shortland's Bluff - Port Phillip Bay - Melbourne - German freighter Pfalz - disappearing gun 
1860 - Peter Scratchley - Special Commissioner for  New Guinea - Lieutenant Colonel - Major General Sir William Jervois - fort on Bare Island - Fort Scratchley - Fort Lytton - Fort Glanville - Fort Queenscliff
1861 - 1917 - William Lane - Roots of Australian Nationalism - Edited extract from Knight, B., "The Roots of Australian Nationalism", published for the National Republican Movement, 1996.
1862 - John Gilbert - bushranger, Binalong, New South Wales, Kilmore, Victoria  Kiandra Goldfields,  Forbes gold escort, Eugowra Rocks,
1862 - Qld. western boundary changed from Longitude 141 deg. east to 138 deg. east
1863 - First Chief Justice appointed in Queensland (Sir James Cockle).
1860 - 2008 - Iraq diggers remember Sunnyside - 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment, Queensland Mounted Infantry, Boer War, General Harry Chauvel, Beersheba
1861-Alfred Cotton - Aviator extraordinaire, cattle station owner, drover
1861 - 1917 - William Lane - Roots of Australian Nationalism - Edited extract from Knight, B., "The Roots of Australian Nationalism", published by  for the National Republican Movement, 1996.
1863 - Richard Dillingham, Convict, Van Dieman’s Land, David Lamb, Hobart
1863 - Kanaka Traffic, South Sea Islands, indentured labourers, Queensland cane fields, “Bully” Hayes
1863 - Maori Wars, 1860s, British settlers, Treaty of Waitangi, Maoris - full scale Maori revolt, Waikato Militia, scouting , protecting settlers
1864 - King Richard - Black Tracker, Aboriginal tracker, Wotjobaluk Tribe, Wergaia Language, Wimmera Region, Victoria, Jane and Frank Duff , aboriginal cricket team, Ebenezer Mission,
1864 - Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson OBE - Australian bush poet, journalist, author, Binalong, New South Wales, Waltzing Matilda, The Man from Snowy River, Clancy of the Overflow,
1864 - Captain Thunderbolt, Frederick Ward, Bushranger, Newcastle, Queensland border, Uralla, NSW
1865 - First steam trains in Queensland (from Ipswich to Bigge's Camp (now Grandchester)).
1864 - Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson OBE - Australian bush poet, journalist, author, Binalong, New South Wales, Waltzing Matilda, The Man from Snowy River, Clancy of the Overflow,
1865 - Australian Colonial Fashion - Picture gallery
1865 - Ben Hall - Bushranger, New South Wales, Gentleman Bushranger, Felons Apprehension Act 1865, Wallis Plains, Hunter Valley, Murrurundi, Lachlan River, James Taylor, Humbug Creek, Lake Cowa, gold escort coach, Eugowra
1865 - Arnott's Biscuits, William Arnott, Newcastle, New South Wales, Leslie Arnott, Sao,
1865 - Daniel Morgan, Mad Dog Morgan, Bushranger, Riverina, Monaro, Murray River, Victoria, Peechelba Station, Wangaratta
1865 - Clarkes of Araluen, Bushrangers, Thomas Clarke, John Clarke, Braidwood, Jinjeara Ranges, NSW
1865 - Henry George Chauvel  - Upper Clarence Light Horse, Queensland Mounted Infantry, Boer War, First World War, Australian Imperial Force, 1st Light Horse Brigade, Gallipoli, Middle Eastern theatre, Desert Mounted Corps, Battle of Romani, Battle of Magdhaba, First Battle of Gaza, Beersheba, Battle of Megiddo
1865 - Frederick William Pottinger - Baronet, New South Wales police force, police inspector, Gundagai, Goulburn, John McLerie, Dubbo, Young, Charles Cowper, the Lachlan, bushrangers, 1862 Police Regulation Act, Kate Brown, Wascoe's Inn, Blaxland, Blue Mountains
1867 - St Helena Island Prison, Civil prison, Brisbane River, Queensland, Proserpine, Moreton Bay, quarantine station, hell hole of the Pacific
1867-9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment (9 RQR) - Australian Army, light infantry battalion, Boer War, Gallipoli campaign, Western Front, New Guinea campaign
1867 - Gold discovered in Gympie Queensland
1867 - Queensland Constitution consolidated from existing legislation.
1868 - The last convicts are Transported to Australia.
1868 -1884 - Australian Fashion - Picture Gallery
1869 - Welcome Stranger, large gold nugget, Richard Oates, John Deason
1869 - Fenian Irish Convicts, John Boyle O’Reilly, Bunbury, WA, whaling ship Catalpa, Georgette, Superintendent of Water Police, Stone, Fremantle
1870 - Dead ringer for Thunderbolt - Alternative story of Thunderbolt's death.
1870 - Inter - Colonial Conference meets in Melbourne, tariff policy, Melbourne, Victorian Treasurer, Mr J. G. Francis
1870 - Harry Power, Bushranger, Victoria, Beechworth country, southern New South Wales, King River valley, Edward Kelly
1870 - For The Term Of His Natural Life - Marcus Clark, Australian novel, Convicts, the Argus
1878 - Seamen’s dispute, 1878 - Seamen’s Union, Chinese crews, ASN Company
1871 - Colonies prepare military forces - NSW Parliament, Naval and Military Act, Victorian Government, SS Cerberus
1871 - NSW Trade Union Council established, Council, trade unions, Colony of NSW, workers,
1871 - Governor concerned with instability, Governor of South Australia, British Parliament, Mr J. Fergusson, the Earl of Kimberly
1871 - Eight Hour Picnic, Sydney - Eight Hours’ League, Sydney, Captain Cook’s statue Hyde Park, Circular Quay, Manly Beach, John Stewart MLA
1872 - Melbourne mint opened, Melbourne, Victoria, Royal Mint, Viscount Canterbury,
1873 - Sweatshop crackdown Victoria, Supervision of Workrooms Factories Act, Factories cleaned up, hours reduced, female, under-age workers
1873 - Lothair mine strike in Clunes, Victoria, Victoria, Clunes - gold, Cornishmen, Chinese, Lothair Mine, Inspector Larner
1873 - Ayers Rock is first sighted by Europeans.
1874 - Australian Natives Association, Ballarat, Victoria, Alfred Deakin, Alexander Peacock, native - born males, promoting nationhood
1874 - Bushranging revival feared, Mudgee, Wallerawang, Mudgee mail coach, bushranging, Mr Charles Mortimer, Ilford
1874 - Frank Gardiner released into exile, bushranger, Ben Hall, John Gilbert, Chief Justice, Sir Alfred Stephen, Premier Henry Parkes
1876 - South Australian Trade Unions legalised, South Australia, colony, trade unions, Attorney - General, Mr J. C, Bray
1876 - The last full blooded Tasmanian aboriginal, Truganini, dies.
1877 - Jervois Defence Report for Sydney Harbour - Sir William Jervois, New South Wales, Sydney Harbour, Fort Denison, Fort Macquarie, Kirribilli, Dawes Point, Macquarie Batteries, Bradley's Head, Garden Island, Goat Island,
1877 - The Australian cricket team is established.
1877 - Australia and England play the first cricket Test match in Melbourne. England defeated.
1877 - Port Arthur Gaol closed, Tasmania, Port Arthur penal station, 1830 - For the term of his natural life, Marcus Clarke
1878 - Advance Australia Fair’, National Anthem, history of Australia, Peter Dodds McCormick
1879 - Captain Moonlite, Andrew George Scott, Bushranger, New South Wales, Mt Egerton, Victoria, Ballarat jail, Thomas Rogan
1879 - Richard Thomas Baker, Economic Botanist
1879 - Royal National Park dedicated, Sydney, National Park, Sir John Robertson
1879 - Intercolonial Trade Union Congress, 1879 - Trade unions, colonies, Sydney Trades and Labour Council, Chinese immigration
1880 - Nationalist Period, J. F. Archibald, John Haynes, Bulletin magazine, national consciousness, literature, music, art
1880 - King O'Malley - Insurance salesman, Hobart, Zeehan, Launceston, Coolgardie, Adelaide, United Labor Party, Encounter Bay, Federationist, House of Representatives, Sir Edward Braddon, Australian Labor Party, Commonwealth Bank, anti-conscriptionist,
1880 - The Bulletin - A radical paper hits Premier - Wantabadgery, bushrangers, Captain Moonlite, Thomas Rogan, Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, John Haynes, Mr Archibald
1880 - 1975 - Undressing of Australian Women - Picture Study
1880 - History of the Yarn, The Bulletin, Sydney, 1880, J. F. Archibald, Henry Lawson, Andrew Barton Paterson (Banjo Paterson), , Steele Rudd,
1880 - Federal Council, Inter-colonial Conference, Melbourne, Henry Parkes, Federal Council, Germany, New Guinea, France, New Hebrides
1880 - Fort Lytton - Brisbane - Brisbane River - Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Scratchley
1880 - 2002 - The Solomons Operation Anode, Australian Defence Force, Solomons, 1880, HMS Emerald Florida Island, 1920, HMAS Adelaide
1880 - Ton Hughes, Bushranger, Perth, Fremantle
1880 - Peter Lalor elected Victorian Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Eureka Stockade, Mr Thomas Bent, Mr Service
1881 - NSW trade unions legal, NSW Parliament, conspiracy charges
1881 - Australian population over 2 million - Australian population, Australia-wide census, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia,
1881 - Smallpox - Sydney, Chinese communities, Waterloo, Surry Hills, Botany, Ultimo, Pyrmont, Botany Road, NSW government, Little Bay, Perth, steamship Saladin, Bordertown, South Australia,
1881 - Women’s education inadequate - Victorian teacher, school system, housekeepers, wives, Miss Rachael McPherson, 
1882 - HMS Wolverene - Royal gift to NSW Navy - British Government, Wolverene, NSW Government, New South Wales, Governor Lord Augustus Loftus,
1882 - Russian hoax heightens fears - French immigrant, Henry Bryant, the Age newspaper, Russian Fleet, Russian Admiral Aslanbegoff,
1882 - Robbery under Arms, Rolf Boldrewood, Novel, Dick Marston, Sydney Mail, bushranger
1882 - Tailoresses’ Union formed, Female clothing workers, strike, Melbourne Trades Hall, Tailoresses’ Union, Melbourne
1882 - New Australasian 2 Mine - National Estate - Victoria - Creswick district - Deep Lead Gold Mine - tragic accident -  touchingly inscribed billy cans
1883 - Colonial Immigration, Three Political cartoons
1883 - Federal Council of Australasia, Inter - colonial Conference, Melbourne, Henry Parkes, Federal Council, Germany, New Guinea
1883 - Sydney - Melbourne railway is opened.
1883 - Queensland annexes Papua (later repudiated by British government)
1885 - Sudan Expedition, North Africa, Muslim rebellion, Sudan, British General Gordon, Egyptian troops massacred, Khartoum, 1885 - Suakin.
1885-1900 - Australian Fashion - Picture Gallery
1886 - Queensland unions legal, Queensland, 1886, Premier Samuel Griffith, Trade Unions Act
1886 - WA Convict system closes, convict, Great Britain, Ireland, the Hougomont, Van Diemen’s Land
1886 - Wharfies Strike, 1882 - Sydney, Melbourne, Wharf Labourers’ Union, pay rise, strike, non - union men
1886 - Gold found in South Australia, Teetulpa, Waukaringa
1887 - Gold in Western Australia, Cossack, Kimberleys, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Yilgarn, Southern Cross, Arthur Bayley, William Ford
1887 - Colonies vie for title, 1887 - Sir Henry Parkes, Australia, Mr McLellan, Mr 0. Gillies, Sir Samuel Griffith, Mr T. Playford
1887 - Colonial Conference, London, Colonial Conference, London, defence, communications, Sir Henry Holland, Queen Victoria, Sir Patrick Jennings
1887 - The Boomerang, New Labour journal published, Queensland, trade union movement, Mr William Lane
1888 - Newcastle Coal Miners Strike - Sir Henry Parkes, New Lambton Pit, Adamstown, Amalgamated Miners’ Association, Adamstown Rioters
1888 - Second sitting of the Federal Council of Australasia.
1888 - Brewing in Australia, W M Foster establishes a brewery
1888 - Centennial Park opens in Sydney, 1888 - Centennial Park, Sydney, Sir Henry Parkes, century of white settlement
1888 - Hobart host to Federal Council, Federal Council of Australia, Hobart, Federation, South Australia, Sir Samuel Griffith
1889 - Labor Party History - Tree of Knowledge, Barcaldine, Labour Leagues, Chris Watson, Andrew Fisher, James Scullin, John Curtin, etc
1889 - Henry Parkes and the Convention of 1891 - Henry Parkes, Tenterfield Oration.
1889 - The railway network linking Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane is completed
1889 - Tenterfield Address Federal council, Sir Henry Parkes, Major General Sir Bevan Edwards, British Army
1889 - Exploitation of rag trade women, Women and children, eight hour day, Adelaide, Mr M. W. Green, Reverend H. M. Pollitt
1890 - Federation Fashion - 
1890 - Second Eureka Rebellion - Barcaldine, Queensland, Eureka Flag, Eureka Oath, Seaman's Strike, Wharfies Strike, coalminers Strike, Maritime Dispute, Shearer's strike, Sir Henry Parkes, Machine - gun Macmillan
1890-Australian Light Horse - Australian Army - mounted infantry - Boer War - Gallipoli - Beersheba - Israel - Palestine
1890 - J. A. Andrews (1865 - 1903) - Anarchist, Melbourne, Australian Socialist League, Maritime Strike, Schellenberg farm, Sydney, Tocsin
stry-Pages/1890-australian_maritime_dispute.htm" target="_self">1890 - Maritime Strike, Mercantile Marine Officers' Association, Amalgamated Shearers' Union, Melbourne Trades Hall Council, tariff problem
1890 - Federation Conference Melbourne,  ‘A United Australia’, Melbourne, Mr James Service, Mr Duncan Gillies, Sir Henry Parkes
1890 - West Australian Parliament sworn in, Western Australia, Parliament, Sir William Robinson, John Forrest
1891 - Shearers Strike, Shearers, Queensland, Barcaldine, Eureka, Winton, Pastoralists’ Federal Council, Peace Preservation Bill
1891 - A constitution is drafted, which provides the basis for all subsequent redrafting.
1891 - Alfred Deakin, Second Prime Minister, Federal Conventions 1891 - 1897 - 1898 - London, Federation Bill, first federal Parliament
1891 - Sir Henry Parkes returned in NSW elections, NSW election, Labour Electoral League, Legislative Assembly, Federation, Sir Henry Parkes
1891 - Royal New South Wales Lancers - Sydney Light Horse Troop, Captain M.M. MacDonald, Parramatta, Governor, Lachlan Macquarie, Boer War, First World War, Gallipoli, Palestine, World War II,New Guinea, Borneo, 7th Division, Balikpapan,
1892 - Broken Hill Strike, Broken Hill, Miners, non - union labour -
1893 - Corowa Conference, Edmund Barton, Australasian Federation League, Australian Natives' Association - tariff problem, Dr John Quick
1894 - Sidney Cotton - inventor, photographer, photography pioneer, photographic reconnaissance, Second World War, MI6
1894 - S. A. women first to get vote, Adult Suffrage Bill, Catherine Spence, Rose Scott, Womanhood Suffrage League, NSW
1894 - Second Shearers Strike, Freedom on the Wallaby
1895 - Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland.
1895 - A B (Banjo) Paterson's Man from Snowy River and Other Verses is published.
1895 - Premiers Conference Hobart, Hobart, Federation, Sir Edward Braddon, George Reid, George Turner, H. M. Nelson, C. C. Kingston,
1895 - Sunday Soap Boxes, Sydney, the Domain, tree stump sermons, passion, humour, politics, clergymen, socialists, politicians, striking labourers
1896 - Sir Henry Parkes dies, Premier of NSW, Sir Henry Parkes, founding father of Federation
1896 - National Council of Women, 1896 - Sydney, Women’s Literary Society, Women’s Suffrage League, Lady Hampden, Bathurst conference: the second of the 'peoples' conventions'.
1897 - Elections for the Federal Convention in Adelaide, Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, C. C. Kingston, Sir Philip Fysh
1897 - Federal Convention, Henry Parkes, Samuel Griffith, Kingston, Barton, Adelaide, bicameral federal parliament, Senate, States
1897 - Queen Victoria thanks loyal Australians, 1897 - Australia, Queen Victoria, Diamond Jubilee
1898 - Mitchell Library Sydney opened, Mr David Scott Mitchell - Trustees of the Public Library of N5W Sydney
1898 - Premiers’ Conference Melbourne, postal rates to Britain, Premiers’ Conference, Melbourne
1898 - Referendum Campaigns, Constitution Bill, referendum, George Reid, Bill rejected, amendments
1898 - Federal Bill dumped in Constitutional Referendum by NSW, Mr George Reid, Federation - Constitutional Referendum, Draft Constitution Bill
1893 - Wollongong Fortifications, Picture study.
1896 - Bathurst hosts Federal Convention, Federation, Federation League, Australian Natives' Association, municipal councils, Chambers of Commerce and Manufacturers, progress associations,
1898 - Federal Bill to go ahead, Draft Constitution Bill, Federal Convention, Melbourne
1898 - BoerWar, Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Peter Handcock, Southern Africa, Henry Lawson, the Bulletin, A B 'Banjo' Patterson
1899 - World's first Labor Party Government (Premier Anderson Dawson lasted one week)
1899 - Jessie toshack, Boer War Nurse.
1899 - WA still stalling on Federation, Federal Bill, nationwide referendums, Commonwealth, Perth Legislative Assembly, Federal League
1899 - National capital to be in NSW, Premiers’ Conference, first sitting in Melbourne, permanent national capital in NSW, Constitution Bill
1899 - Queensland says ‘yes’ to Federation, Queensland, Commonwealth of Australia Bill, federal referendum
1900-1919 - Australian Fashion - Picture Gallery
1900 - The Boxer Rebellion, Considerably updated, Commander Francis Hixson, Gunboat HMCS Protector, Woosung, Taku, Tientsin
1900 - Final Steps towards Federation, Australian delegates in London witness the Royal Assent and proclamation of the Commonwealth.
1900 - Federal Labour Party formed - 1900 - Intercolonial Conference, state Labour parties, Federal Labour Party
1900 - Royal Assent, We are one nation, Queen Victoria, 1 January 1901 - proclamation, Federation, Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act
1901 - Commonwealth Proclaimed - Advance Australia Fair is sung at the inauguration ceremony.
1901 - Federation day, Commonwealth of Australia, Federal Constitution, Sydney, Centennial Park, Governor - General Lord Hopetoun
1901 - Edmund Barton GCMG PC QC, first Prime Minister, founding Justice High Court.
1901 - Australian Constitutional Monarchy, Queen of Australia, Governor - General, Australia Constitution Act, 1900 (UK), Australia Act, 1986 -
1901 - How old is the Australian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, 1 March 1901 - 10 July 1911
1902 - 31 May - Boer War ends.
1901 - Naval Operations other than war, HMAS Encounter, Medical Relief Force, Fiji,
1920 - The battle - cruiser HMAS Australia played a leading part in naval activities associated with of the Prince of Wales’.
1919 -1938 - RAN ships visited the New Guinea mandate, the Portuguese and Dutch territories, and islands of the South Pacific to maintain order.
1904 - Women's suffrage in Queensland state elections
1909 - University of Queensland established
1909 - Royal Australian Navy, HMA Ships Yarra and Parramatta, Warrego, Australia, Berrima, AE2 - Scrap Iron Flotilla
1910 - National Wattle Day - 1st September - Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Wattle Day League, Order of the Wattle Blossom
1910 - HMAS Yarra 1 - River Class Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Kabakaul, German New Guinea, Rabaul, Malta, Adriatic operations
1910 - HMAS Parramatta (I) - River Class Torpedo Boat Destroyer,  VADM Sir George E. Patey, RAN,  Adriatic operations
1911 - The Reverend John Flynn, Presbyterian minister, Australian Inland Mission, Clifford Peel, Royal Flying Doctor Service
1911 - Canberra founded and designated as the capital.
1912 - Australian Coat of Arms,
1913 - Jimmy James OAM - Aboriginal Australian, Pitjantjatjara Tribe, Aboriginal tracker, Black Tracker, South Australian Police, Ernabella (now Pukatja), Ooldea Mission, Lilian Disher, James Smith, Wendy Pfeiffer, Berri, South Australia, Medal of the Order of Australia
1914 - World War 1 - Britain declares war after Germany invades neutral Belgium. World War One begins. - Australian troops fight in World War 1.
2008 - 1914 - The war to start all wars - Australian newspaper article
1914 - Sydney/Emden, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Australia, Melbourne, Sydney, Encounter, Pioneer, Parramatta, Yarra, Warrego, AE1 - AE2
1914 - Before Gallipoli, British Empire, war, Imperial Germany, Austro - Hungary, Australia, Nauru, Caroline Islands, New Guinea, Samoa, Egypt
1914 - Beginnings of Australia's Anzac Heritage The evolution of the Digger, The Australian personality applied to the business of war.
1914-HMAS AE2 - Royal Australian Navy - E-class submarine - Commander Henry H.G.D. Stoker, RN. - Dardanelles Campaign - Search and discovery
1914 - HMAS AE2 - Lost hero of Gallipoli
1914 - 2002 - Nation to farewell last Gallipoli veteran, Australia, Gallipoli veteran, Alec Campbell, state funeral, Hobart, Queen's tribute
1914 - 2002 - WWI veteran passes away, Australia, World War I, Raymond Durston,, Melbourne, 11th General Service Reinforcements -
          2008-1918 - Saving Private Lynch's war - , World War I, the battle of Amiens, AIF, 45th Battalion, Germany,
1914 - 2002 - State funeral for last Light-horsemen, Light - horsemen, Albert Whitmore, Australian Imperial Forces, 9th Australian Light Horse, Middle East
2008 - 1915-gallipoli diary sells for 24k - ABC News Online article
2008 - 1915 - Gallipoli diary sells for $24k - Gallipoli, digger, New Zealand, Private George Petersen, Nelson Company, April 25 1915, Anzac Day
1915 - Political role of women in WW1 - World War 1 - Women's Peace Army, 1916 - Conscription Referendum, Billy Hughes, Daniel Mannix, Vida Goldstein
1915 - William Morris Hughes, Labor Party, 7th Prime Minister, World War 1 - Conscription crisis, the little digger, Preferential Voting,
1915 - 25 April - The term 'ANZAC' is born as Australian and NZ, troops join British and French troops on the peninsula of Gallipoli.
1915 - Anzac Day Ceremony, Dawn Service, Laying, wreaths, poppies, Last Post, Period of Silence, Rouse and Reveille, The Ode
1915 - Anzac Heroes - John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Albert Jacka, Leonard Keysor, William Symonds, John Hamilton, Albert Shout, Frederick Tub, Alexander Burton, William Dunstan, Hugo Throssell,
1915 - Nursing World War 1 - Hospital Ship Cicilia, Gallipoli Campaign, World War 1 - Sister Lydia Kate King, Lemnos Harbour, Rabbit Island
1915 - Youngest Anzac  First World War, James Martin, Gallipoli, aged 14 years 9 months, Alick James Bryant, 13 years 11 months old
1915 - ANZAC Pictures
1915 - 2008 - Gallipoli diary sells for $24k - Gallipoli, digger, New Zealand, Private George Petersen, Nelson Company, April 25 1915, Anzac Day
1915 - Mustafa Kemal - Kemal Atatürk - Mustafa Kemal, Kemal Atatürk, Australian Army, Gallipoli
1916 - 2010 - Unknown WWI soldier buried as mass graves give up secrets - - World War I - Fromelles - France
1916 - Battle at Villers-Bretonneux - Western Front - Belgium - the Somme - Gallipoli - Fromelles, - Pozières - ANZAC Day
1916 - The Battle at Fromelles - Western Front - Germany - 5th Division AIF - Sugar Loaf - 15th Brigade
1916 - Dr. Daniel Mannix, Irish born Australian Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Melbourne, anti - conscription campaigns, working class
1916 - 2008 - Sacrifice at the Western Front - Australian troops, Battle of the Somme, Pozieres, phosgene gas, artillery battle, Mouquet Farm, Moo-Cow Farm,
    1916 - 2008 - Index - Archaeological dig at Fromelles
    1916 - -2008 - DNA extraction from the remains of First World War soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood - Fromelles
    1916 - 2008 - Govt to test Fromelles mass grave remains - DNA test, World War I soldiers, mass graves, Fromelles, northern France, World War I
1917 - Battle of Passchendaele - World War I, Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium, Germany, France, Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, General Erich Ludendorff , Messines Ridge,
1917 -  Battle of Beersheba - Sinai Palestine campaign - World War I - 4th Light Horse Brigade - Brigadier William Grant - Turkey -
1917-Battle of Beersheba - Sinai, Palestine campaign, World War I, Lieutenant General Henry Chauvel, Desert Mounted Corps
1917 - Battle at Baupame - WW1, Hindenburg Line, 13th Light Horse Regiment, Uhlans
    1917 - 2008 - WWI digger identified with new DNA techniques - Private George Storey,  Passchendaele campaign,  Zonnebeke, Belgium,
    1917 - 2008 - Private George Richard Storey grave rededicated after the Battle of Polygon Wood - Australian Army, Battle of Polygon Wood, Belgium.
    1917 - 2008 - World War I soldier identified as Private George Richard Storey - World War I, Battle of Polygon Wood,  Private John Hunter, Sergeant George Calder
    1917 - 2010 - WWI digger finally buried in Belgium - Australian soldier, Ploegsteert, Belgium, World War 1, Alan James Mather, Inverell, Battle of Messines Ridge, 1917
1918 - John Monash - Restoring the spirit of Anzacs - Australian newspaper article
11 November, 1918 - Germany surrenders, end of WWI.
1918 - HMAS Stuart (I) - Scott Class Destroyer - World War II - Battle of Calabria
1918 - Remembrance Day - World War 1 - 11 November 1918 - Western Front - Germany - Australia
1918 - 2003 - Skull returned to Turkey, Skull, Turkish soldier, Gallipoli, World War I
1918 - 2008 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps -1918 - World War I - Anzac Day
1918 - 2008 - Saving Private Lynch's war - , World War I, the battle of Amiens, AIF, 45th Battalion, Germany,
1918 - 2008  - Last WWI VC on display at the Australian War Memorial - World War 1 - France Battle of Montbrehain - Victoria Cross - Lieutenant George Ingram
1918 - 2008 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps,1918, World War I, Anzac Day.
1919-1945 - Australian Fashion - Picture gallery
1919 - 1945 Decline of Naval Deterrence, Royal Australian Navy, 1922 Washington Five Power Naval Treaty, Australian Government
1920 - History of Qantas, Qantas Empire Airways, Shorts S.23 Empire Flying Boats, Boeing 707 - Boeing 747 - Prime Minister Ben Chifley
1922 - Queensland Upper house of Parliament abolished
1922 - HMAS Adelaide (I) - Light Cruiser, CAPT J.B. Stevenson RAN, Panama Canal, Solomons, Noumea, blockade runner RAMSES, Fremantle
1922 - Vegemite, Dr. Cyril P. Callister, Fred Walker Cheese Company, Melbourne, yeast extract, Kraft Foods,
1923 - Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 8th Prime Minister
1924 - HMAS Australia, Washington Five Power Naval Treaty, Britain, America, Japan, Australia, HMAS Australia, Royal Australian Navy, RAN, scuttled, 1924
1925 - Nursing in the 1920's, Armorel Davies, Sydney Hospital, 1925
1927 - The cruiser HMAS Adelaide conducted a punitive expedition to put down a native uprising in the Solomon Islands.
1927 - The first Federal Parliament is held in Canberra.
1928 - Royal Flying Doctor Service, Cloncurry, Queensland, Reverend John Flynn, Jimmy Darcy, Clifford Peel, Alfred Traeger, De Havilland DH50
1929 - The Great Depression following the Wall Street Crash hits Australia hard.
1930's - Queens Christmas Broadcast
1931 - Apex History - Apex Australia, Geelong, Victoria, Ballarat, Camperdown, Albury, Warrnambool, free milk for school children project, Prince of Whales Hospital, Sydney, leukaemia 1932 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1932 - The Dog on the Tuckerbox - 'Nine Miles from Gundagai'
1933 - Western Australian referendum for secession from England rejected by Parliament.
1933 - HMAS Voyager (I) - V & W Class Destroyer,  Singapore, Malta, Scrap Iron Flotilla, Alexandria, Libya, Betano Bay, Tobruk Ferry,
1933 - HMAS Vampire (I) - V & W Class Destroyer, Mediterranean, Alexandria, Suez Canal, Malaya, Singapore, Sunda Strait, Ceylon,
1933 - HMAS Vendetta (I) - Kattegat, Heligoland Bight Action, White Russian forces, White Russian forces, Bolshevik destroyer Lennuk, Scrap Iron Flotilla, 19th Destroyer Division, Mediterranean Fleet,  Battle of Calabria, Alexandria, Tobruk Ferry Service,
1934 - HMAS Australia, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
1936 - HMAS Yarra (II) - Royal Australian Navy, Grimsby Class Sloop, World War II
1938 - North Fort or North Head Battery - 1938, World War II, 31st May 1942, Sydney Harbour, 3 Japanese midget submarines
1939 - WorldWar 2 bigins.
1939 - RAN in 2nd World War, Second World War, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Canberra, HMAS Hobart, HMAS Sydney, HMAS Voyager, HMAS Swan, HMAS Yarra, HMAS Perth
1939 - Nursing During WWII, Ethel (Stalky) Stalker (now Lane), Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, 1937 - field hospitals, Dubbo - Tamworth, Morotai
1939 - Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister, United Party of Australia, Liberal Party, Kooyong, Melbourne
1941 - The United States declares war on Japan.
1940 - Invasion of Sicily, 1940 - 1941 - RAN, Mediterranean, Royal Navy, supporting Army operations, successes HMAS Sydney Crete, loss of HMAS Waterhen, besieged garrison Tobruk, 1943 - Afrika Corps defeated, liberation of Sicily, amphibious invasion, Operation HUSKY, 3 - 000 ship invasion force, HMA Ships Gawler, Lismore, Maryborough, Ipswich, Cessnock, Geraldton, Caines and Wollongong - .
1940 - HMAS Katoomba (I) - Royal Australian Navy, Minesweeper, Corvette, World War II 
1940 - HMAS Parramatta (II) - Royal Australian Navy, Sloop, Tobruk, Suez Canal, Alexandria, 
1941 - Sir Roden Cutler VC, Victoria Cross, gallantry in the face of the enemy, military service, Australian diplomat, Governor of New South Wales
1941 - RAN in the Pacific War, Royal Australian Navy , HMA Ships Hobart, Vampire, Yarra, Quickmatch , Quiberon, Napier, Norman, Nizam, Nepal
1941 - HMAS Bendigo (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Philippines, Sunda Straits, Singapore, Java, Moratai, Sumatra, China, New Guinea, Okinawa
1941 - HMAS Broome (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class),  Philippines, New Guinea, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, 
1941 - HMAS Burnie (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), 20th Minesweeping Flotilla, Cape Otway,  Singapore, Netherlands East Indies, Hong Kong, Ceylon
1941 - HMAS Maryborough (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Corvette, Malayan-Java-Sumatran operations, Hong Kong
1941 - HMAS Toowoomba (I) - Australian Minesweeper, Corvette, World War II, Batavia, Malaya / Java campaign, Netherlands East Indies, Hong Kong, Ceylon
1941 - HMAS Ballarat (I) - Royal Australian Navy - Minesweeper - Corvette - World War II -
1941 - HMAS Wollongong (I) -Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Singapore, Malaya, Java, Sumatra, Batavia, Diego Garcia, Sicily,  Atlantic,  Mediterranean, Alexandria,
1941 - NursingWW2MyraMcLaren, Myra McLaren, Australian nurses, Second World War, Palestine,1941, field hospitals, Athens, Gaza, 2/6th AGH
1942 - 2008 - Kokoda tourist 'finds WWII pilot's body' - 1942 -  remains of a World War II pilot - Papua New Guinea - New Britain -  Hudson bomber
1942 - HMAS Warramunga (I) - Improved Tribal Class Destroyer, merchant ship STAR KING, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, Gasmata, New Britain, Marubian, Task Force 74, Humboldt Bay, Japanese 'Kamikaze' (suicide) air attacks,  Philippines, Cebu City, Tarakan, Wewak, Subic Bay, Manila, Tokyo Bay, Korean theatre, Kunsan area, Chinnampo, Chongjin, Far East Strategic Reserve, SEATO exercise Ocean Link,
1942 - HMAS Ipswich (I) - Australian Minesweeper (Bathurst Class), Mediterranean, Syracuse, Atlantic, Alexandria, Port Said, Indian Ocean, 22nd Minesweeping Flotilla, New Guinea
1942 - HMAS Colac - Australian Minesweeper, Corvette, anti-submarine patrol,  Townsville, New Guinea, Halmahera Group, Bougainville, Solomon Islands,
1942 - Rats of Tobruk recognised, Rats of Tobruk, north Africa, official tribute, Federal Trade Minister Mark Vaile,
1942 - Battle of Savo Island, Royal Australian Navy, HMAS Canberra, naval battle  Savo Island, Solomons, American invasion force, Guadalcanal
1942 - Kakoda Track, Second World War, Australia, Japan, 2/14th Australian Infantry Association, Papua New Guinea, Port Morseby
1942 - Battle of the Coral Sea, Britain, America, Japan, Port Moresby, Japanese defensive perimeter, Port Moresby, Operation MO, Darwin,
1942 - Papua New Guinea, fuzzy-wuzzy angels, Kokoda Track, Milne Bay, Rabaul, Lae, Salamaua, Port Moresby, Japan, Battle of Java Sea, Battle of the Sunda Strait, Battle of the Bismarck Sea, RAAF
1942 - 2008 - Kokoda tourist 'finds WWII pilot's body' - 1942 -  remains of a World War II pilot - Papua New Guinea - New Britain -  Hudson bomber
1942 - 2008 - Australia and PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact - Australia PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact, Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
1942 - 2008 - Distorting the truth of Kokoda - Anzac Day  - Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
1944 - School of the Air, correspondence schools, primary and early secondary education
2008 - Catalina flying boat mystery solved in Darwin - News report
1945 - 8 May - Britain and the Allies celebrate Victory in Europe (VE - day), a day after Germany surrenders.
1945 - 15 August - The Allies celebrate victory over Japan.
1945 - 2 September - Japanese administration under General Koiso officially surrenders with a signed document.
1945 - Assimilation Era Fashion
1945 - 2009- Ted Kenna - Tribute to Victoria Cross winner- 1945 - Victoria Cross - World War II - Wewak - New Guinea
1946-1969 - Australian Fashion - Picture Gallery
1946 - 31 January - Australia announces participation in the allied British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. The force is dismantled 1951.
1948 - Australia begins a scheme for immigration from Europe.
1948 - The Holden Motor Car, General Motors, Australia's own car, FC, FJ, Kingswood, ute, Torana
1949 - HMAS Sydney Royal Navy as HMS Terrible, Majestic class light aircraft carrier, commissioned at Devonport, England, on 16 December 1948 Captain Roy R. Dowling DSO RAN, 805 Squadron Hawker Sea Furies, 816 Squadron Fairey Fireflies, Korean War, England via Suez Coronation Contingent, remained in commission until 1958 after steaming 315 - 958 miles since commissioning., recommissioned as a Fast Troop Transport on 1963., Australian Training Squadron in September 1964 - Vung Tau Ferry - South Vietnam
1949 - The acceptance by Britain, and the other Dominions, of India's adoption of republican status is now taken as the start of the modern Commonwealth.
1948 - Warragamba Dam, Warragamba River, Nepean Hawkesbury river system, Strzelecki, NSW
1948 - Warragamba Primary School, Mr Farnham, Truth and Honour
1949 - RAN Badge Design and History, official badge, Royal Australian Navy, 1949 - Building Surveyor, Hobart, Tasmania, naval symbol, Hobart Cenotaph, booklet Advice to Personnel, left handed rope surround knotted, stockless chain cabled anchor, four dots which Royal Australian Navy, Tudor Kings Crown, 1949 badge St Edwards Queens Crown, right hand roping, 1968 badge, eliminating knotted rope and the four dots, Federation Star, 2002 badge, spacing of words Royal Australian Navy
1950 - Australia becomes involved in the Malayan Emergency. Australian forces are involved in action against anti - government forces.
1950-53 - Korean War - Australian troops, Korean War, United Nations Forces, Korea, Royal Australian Navy, R.A.A.F, South Korea, 1950 - Australian battalion for Korea. - British Commonwealth Brigade, American Eighth Army, North Korea, Chinese 'human wave' attacks, reinforcements, Chinese offensive on the Kapyong River in April 1951 - patrols, raids, ambushes, bombardments - Over 1 - 200 Australians were wounded in the Korean War and 339 were killed.
1950 - RAN in the Korean War, HMA Sydney, Anzac, Bataan, Tobrok, Warramunga, Culgoa, Condamine, Murchison, Shoalhaven
1950 - Nursing in 1950 - Sister Hazel Woolston, Crown Street Women's Hospital, Royal Brisbane Hospital
1951 - HMAS Bataan, Nationalist Chinese, blockade, China,
1951 - HMAS Anzac II, a ship's history, Williamstown Naval Dockyard, Com. John Plunkett - Cole RAN, Royal Australian Navy, 22 March 1951 - Korea, area headquarters Communist forces, Hong Kong, Lieutenant Commander W.O.C. Roberts RAN, Singapore, Malayan Emergency (1948 - 60), Fleet Training Ship
1953 - 27 July - The UN and North Korea sign an agreement to end fighting in the war. The conflict remains unresolved to this day.
1955 - Malayan Insurgency - World War II, Australian troops, Malaya, British, Japanese defeat in 1945 - self government - . Malayan Communists, Federation of Malaya, 1948 - armed communist revolt, Australia, spread of communism in Asia, offered troops, British forces, R.A.A.F, 1950 - ground troops, 1955 to 1962
1956 - Olympic Games held in Melbourne.
1960 - Australiana Pioneer Village - Wilberforce - Dugald Andrew McLachlan, State Heritage Inventory, Hawkesbury, Rose Cottage, Hawkesbury Council
1961 - 1962 RAN ships, Saigon
1962 - Australia's Vietnam War - Overview and timeline
1963 - Indonesian Confrontation, 1963 - Indonesia, confrontation policy, Malaysia, Indonesian guerrilla forces, Borneo, Australian troops, P.M. Menzies, South East Asia, Sukarno overthrown in 1967
1965 - Vietnam War,  global perspective
1965 - Vietnam War, USA, Vietnam conflict, 1962 - 1972 - South Vietnam, North Vietnam, communist forces, South Vietnamese communist guerrilla troops
1965 - RAN in the Vietnam War, Royal Australian Navy, Vietnam War, Australian destroyers, HMAS Sydney, `Vung Tau Ferry', Australian Clearance Divers
1964 - Jan Bell, Vietnam War Nurse, Vietnam, Saigon, Concord Hospital, civil surgical team, Vietnam, 100 civilian nurses, Vung Tau, "the Riviera of South - East Asia", Saigon
1965 - Nursing in Vietnam, Sister Arm Hall,, Brisbane's Mater Hospital, 1960s., First Australian Field Hospital, Vung Tau, Vietnam war
1966-2008 - Vietnam vets stand tall on day marked for them
1967 - A national referendum supports granting Aborigines full citizenship.
1967 - Australian White Ensign - Australian National Line, cargo ship Boonaroo, 1909 Imperial Conference, 1965 - Member for Batman, Mr SJ Benson MP -
1970 - Multicultural Fashion
1970-1993 - Australian Fashion - Picture Gallery
1970 - Nursing in the 1970’s, Universal health insurance scheme, Kendra Sundquist,
1971 - Eureka Uprising at the Rocks - Jack Mundey, Builders Labourer's Federation, Eureka Flag, The Rocks, Wooloomooloo, Sydney City Council,
1971 - Neville Bonner becomes the first Aboriginal to be a Member of Parliament.
1973 - The Sydney Opera House opens.
1974 - Operation Navy Help Darwin, Darwin, Cyclone Tracy
1975 - Australia introduces new immigration laws, restricting the number of unskilled workers.
1975 - Governor General Sir John Kerr sacks the government of Gough Whitlam.
1977 - Australian Nationalism - Taken from a NSW Education Dept. curriculum textbook.
1980 - Nursing in the 1980's, Sister Buddy (Rosemary) Sconce, Royal North Hospital -
1981 - Asian immigration increases.
1982 - Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane
1983 - Australia wins the America's Cup.
1984 - Australian National Anthem - ‘Advance Australia Fair’
1984 - Advance Australia Fair becomes our national anthem.
1986 - The Australia Act makes Australian law fully independent of the British parliament.
1988 - Commonwealth Floral Emblem - Golden Wattle
1988 - Expo 88 held in Brisbane
1988 - Bicentenary celebrations
1988 - The new Parliament House opens in Canberra.
1990 - Gulf War 1 - Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Kuwait, August 1990, oilfields, United Nations, missile attacks on Israel 1991, USA, Middle East, coalition of Arab and Western States, United Nations control, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, two ships, Royal Australian Navy, Persian Gulf, 1996.
1990 - Helen Joyce, Gulf War Nurse, Army, nursing, Mater in Newcastle, Australia, 1980 - military, Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, lieutenant, Auburn Hospital, Concord, amphibious landing, Kuwait, oil fields,
1992 - The Citizenship Act is amended to remove swearing an oath of allegiance to the British Crown. 1993 - Keating wins elections.
1992 - The Native Title Act establishes a process for the granting of Aboriginal land rights.
1995 - Jodie Routley, Army, 1987 - EN's training, pathology technician, RN's degree, 1993 to 1995 Lieutenant, Bougainville, peacekeeping mission, New Guinea, tidal wave
1996 - John Howard of the Liberal Party becomes prime minister.
1998 - The Year of the Flying Condom.
1998 - Elections see Howard's Liberal and National party coalition re - elected.
1998 - Constitutional referendum to replace the Queen defeated.
1998 - The conception of the Eureka Council
1998 - HMAS Arunta - ANZAC class frigate, Royal Australian Navy Alice Springs, Perth Zoo, Western Australia
2000 - New stamps a special tribute to Victoria Cross heroes - Victoria Cross - Sir Roden Cutler - Keith Payne - Captain Neville Howse
2000 - Australia hosts the Olympic Games in Sydney, the most popular ever.
2001 - HMAS Warramunga 11 - ANZAC class frigate, Royal Australian Navy, boarder protection operations, Arabian Gulf, International Coalition against Terrorism
2001 - Australia celebrates 100 years since its inauguration as the Commonwealth of Australia.
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australia's most famous cricketer, dies at the age of 92.
2001 - Australia turns away hundreds of boat people over several months.
2001 - Australia pays Nauru to detain many of them.
2001 - Howard wins a third term in general elections.
2002 - HMAS Stuart 2 - ANZAC class frigate - Royal Australian Navy - boarder protection operations - North Korean flag bulk carrier Pong Su -   Arabian Gulf - International Coalition against Terrorism -
2003 - Anzac Day security boosted - Anzac Day parades - Queensland RSL president John Burgess - Royal Australian Air Force
2003 - Defence Delivers Record Number of Medals, Australian Defence Force, 102 - 000 medals, Defence Directorate of Honours and Awards
2003 - ANZAC Day Speech by the Minister for Defence, - Dawn Service on HMAS Kanimbla in the Persian Gulf.
2003 - Iraq - Welcome Home Ceremonies
2003-6 - Aussie Uniforms Asian Faces 2003 - 6 - Defence picture gallery.
2005 - HMAS Toowoomba (11) - - ANZAC class frigate, Royal Australian Navy, boarder protection operations, Arabian Gulf, International Coalition against Terrorism
2005 - Pictorial essay of Australian troops in Southern Iraq - Defence Photo Gallery
2005 - 2008 - Digger's Iraq uniform goes on display at the Australian War Memorial  - Private Christopher Donovan, combat uniform, Australian soldier, Iraq
2005 - Governor General statement to the Eureka Council - on the importance of Anzac
2006 - Anzac Day Commemorations 2006 - Defence picture gallery.
2006 - Rhododendron Festival - Blackheath - New South Wales Picture study
2007 - Afghanistan - Trent Ollis - Digger showed bravery under fire
2008 - G-G opens Beersheba Light Horse memorial - Governor-General - Major General Michael Jeffery, Israel, Australian Light Horsemen, Turks, World War I
2008 - Dawn of new era for Anzac legend -  Plumed slouch hat - Australian Light Horseman - battlefields of France - Anzac Day celebrations
2008 - Dawn Service, Gallipoli 2008 - MIN80425/08,  Friday, 25 April 2008
2008 - Anzac Day Speech - Anzacs represent the best of us: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
2008 - Confessions from the front - Gallipoli - Norman Jones - World War I - transport ship - S.S. Indian
2008 - A special day of Anzac memories - 93rd Anzac Day - World War I - HMAS Sydney - Villers-Bretonneux - Gallipoli - Turkey - Anzac legend
2008 - Catalina flying boat mystery solved in Darwin - World war 2 news item.
2008 - Digger's Iraq uniform goes on display at the Australian War Memorial  - Private Christopher Donovan, combat uniform, Australian soldier, Iraq, Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australian War Memorial in Canberra
2008 - The return to Villers-Bretonneux  -  News Report - Australian
2008 - Diggers mark last Anzac Day in Iraq - Australian troops in southern Iraq - dawn service - Light Horse regiment - Talil Airbase
2008 - Plans for annual Villers-Bretonneux Anzac Day service - News Report - Australian
2008 - 1860 - Iraq diggers remember Sunnyside - 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment, Queensland Mounted Infantry, Boer War, General Harry Chauvel, Beersheba
2008 - 1914 - The war to start all wars - Australian newspaper article
2008 - 1915-gallipoli diary sells for 24k - ABC News Online article
2008 - 1915 - Gallipoli diary sells for $24k - Gallipoli, digger, New Zealand, Private George Petersen, Nelson Company, April 25 1915, Anzac Day
2008 - 1916 - Sacrifice at the Western Front - Australian troops, Battle of the Somme, Pozieres, phosgene gas, artillery battle, Mouquet Farm, Moo-Cow Farm,
2008 - 1916 - Index - Archaeological dig at Fromelles
2008 - 1916 - DNA extraction from the remains of First World War soldiers buried at Pheasant Wood - Fromelles
2008 - 1916 - Govt to test Fromelles mass grave remains - DNA test, World War I soldiers, mass graves, Fromelles, northern France, World War I
2008 - 1917 - WWI digger identified with new DNA techniques - Private George Storey,  Passchendaele campaign,  Zonnebeke, Belgium,
2008 - 1917 - Private George Richard Storey grave rededicated after the Battle of Polygon Wood - Australian Army, Battle of Polygon Wood, Belgium.
2008 - 1917 - World War I soldier identified as Private George Richard Storey - World War I, Battle of Polygon Wood,  Private John Hunter, Sergeant George Calder
2008 - 1917 - Beersheba War Memorial photograph 'not of Light Horse charge' - Saturday - 1 November 2008 - Australian
2008 - 1918 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps -1918 - World War I - Anzac Day
2008 - 1918 - Saving Private Lynch's war - , World War I, the battle of Amiens, AIF, 45th Battalion, Germany,
2008 - 1918 - John Monash - Passions of a warrior - Australian Corps,1918, World War I, Anzac Day.
Hunt for HMAS Sydney II -search, discovery and the Royal Commission that followed, Ministerial interview included
2008 - 1918  - Last WWI VC on display at the Australian War Memorial - World War 1 - France Battle of Montbrehain - Victoria Cross - Lieutenant George
2008 - 1942 - Kokoda tourist 'finds WWII pilot's body' - 1942 -  remains of a World War II pilot - Papua New Guinea - New Britain -  Hudson bomber
2008 - 1942 - Australia and PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact - Australia PNG sign Kokoda preservation pact, Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
2008 - 1942 - Distorting the truth of Kokoda - Anzac Day  - Australia, PNG, Papua New Guinea, Australian Army, World War 2, Kokoda Track, Soldiers, Diggers
2008 - 1966 - Long Tan - Awards win for Long Tan heroes
2008 - 1966 - Vietnam vets stand tall on day marked for them
2008 - 1966 - Major Peter Badcoe VC -Vietnam, Daughter remembers VC hero Badcoe
2008 - 1968 - 102 Coral Battery - Vietnam, Courage under fire in Battle of Coral
2008 - 1969 - 2nd D&E Platoon - Vietnam, combat history
2008 - 1969 - 2nd Defence and Employment Platoon - Vietnam, 'Ghost platoon' laid to rest
2008 - Vietnam vet to bring last missing digger home - Vietnam conflict, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, communist forces, South Vietnamese communist guerrilla troops
2008 - 1981 - Forgotten Digger's name etched on memorial at long last - The Australian , 11 November 2008
2009 - War Memorials big things on show - Australian War Memorial - German V2 rocket