| Year | Month | Day | Event |
|---|
| 1770 |
Apr |
19 |
Captain Cook Sights Australia's East Coast |
| 1770 |
Apr |
29 |
James Cook Discovers Botany Bay, Australia |
| 1770 |
Jun |
11 |
Captain Cook Aground On Great Barrier Reef |
| 1808 |
Jan |
26 |
Rum Rebellion The Only Takeover Of Australia |
| 1829 |
May |
02 |
Capt. Charles Fremantle Declares Australian Colony |
| 1835 |
Aug |
30 |
Melbourne Is Founded |
| 1836 |
Dec |
28 |
South Australia And Adelaide Are Founded |
| 1838 |
Jun |
10 |
28 Murdered At Myall Creek |
| 1851 |
Feb |
06 |
Largest Bushfire Ever In Victoria, Australia |
| 1851 |
May |
15 |
Australian's Gold Rush Begins |
| 1858 |
Aug |
07 |
The First Australian Rules Football Match Is Played |
| 1859 |
Jun |
06 |
Queensland Separated From New South Wales |
| 1861 |
May |
13 |
Great Comet 1861 John Tebbutt Of Windsor |
| 1864 |
Dec |
01 |
Great Fire Of Brisbane |
| 1865 |
Jul |
31 |
Opening Of First Narrow Gauge Mainline Railway In Australia |
| 1866 |
Jan |
18 |
Wesley College, Melbourne, Is Established |
| 1880 |
Jun |
28 |
Ned Kelly Is Captured At Glenrowan |
| 1887 |
Jan |
21 |
Brisbane: Record 18.3 Inches Of Rain |
| 1901 |
Mar |
01 |
The Australian Army Is Formed |
| 1901 |
May |
08 |
The Australian Labour Party Is Established |
| 1903 |
Oct |
06 |
Australian Top Court Holds Initial Session |
| 1904 |
Apr |
27 |
Australian Labor Party Gains National Government |
| 1906 |
Aug |
04 |
Central Railway Station, Sydney Opens |
| 1909 |
Jun |
02 |
Deakin: 3rd Time PM Of Australia |
| 1909 |
Jun |
15 |
England, Australia, South Africa Form Imperial Cricket Conference |
| 1910 |
Jul |
16 |
The First Australian Flight Was By John Duigan |
| 1913 |
Feb |
20 |
King O'Malley Marks Commencement Of Canberra Construction |
| 1914 |
Sep |
11 |
Australian Occupy New Britain |
| 1916 |
Nov |
13 |
Prime Minister Hughes Expelled From Party |
| 1921 |
Mar |
31 |
The Royal Australian Air Force Is Formed |
| 1932 |
Mar |
19 |
The Sydney Harbour Bridge Is Opened |
| 1934 |
Nov |
11 |
Melbourne: Shrine Of Remembrance Is Opened |
| 1939 |
Jan |
01 |
Record Heat In Sydney, Australia |
| 1940 |
Jul |
06 |
Australia's Longest Cantilever Bridge Opened |
| 1942 |
Feb |
19 |
Japanese Planes Bomb Darwin, Australia |
| 1942 |
Mar |
03 |
Japanese Warplanes Raid Australia |
| 1942 |
Oct |
09 |
Statute Of Westminster Formalizes Australian Autonomy |
| 1942 |
Oct |
10 |
Soviets Establish Diplomatic Relations With Australia |
| 1943 |
Mar |
02 |
Americans And Australians Sink Japanese Ships |
| 1945 |
Jun |
10 |
Australian Forces Liberate Brunei In Bay |
| 1945 |
Aug |
31 |
Australia: Menzies Founds Liberal Party |
| 1945 |
Nov |
01 |
Australia Joins The United Nations |
| 1953 |
Oct |
15 |
Brits Detonate Totem 1 At Emu Field |
| 1955 |
Nov |
23 |
Australia Gains Control Of The Cocos Islands |
| 1961 |
Apr |
03 |
Australia: Leadbeater's Possum Rediscovered |
| 1962 |
Sep |
28 |
Brisbane Depot Fire Destroys 65 Trams |
| 1964 |
Oct |
26 |
Cooke Last Person Executed In Australia |
| 1965 |
Mar |
06 |
Playford Loses Power In South Australia |
| 1966 |
Feb |
14 |
Australian Currency Is Decimalised |
| 1971 |
Jun |
06 |
Australian And Vietnamese Battle At Long Khanh |
| 1973 |
Oct |
20 |
The Sydney Opera House Opens |
| 1974 |
Dec |
24 |
Darwin In Australia Devastated By Cyclone |
| 1974 |
Dec |
25 |
Cyclone Tracy Devastates Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
| 1978 |
Jul |
01 |
Australia's Northern Territory Granted Self-government |
| 1979 |
Jun |
09 |
Sydney Luna Park Fire Kills Seven |
| 1984 |
Apr |
19 |
Advance Australia Fair Declared National Anthem |
| 1985 |
Oct |
26 |
Uluru Is Returned To Aborigines By Australian Government |
| 1986 |
Mar |
27 |
Car Bomb Explodes At Melbourne Police HQ |
| 1988 |
Dec |
06 |
Australian Capital Gets Self-government |
| 1989 |
Feb |
01 |
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Is A City In Australia |
| 1989 |
Dec |
28 |
5.6 Earthquake Kills 13 In New South Wales, Newcastle |
| 1992 |
Jun |
03 |
Mabo V Queensland Grant Land Rights In Australia |
| 2000 |
Sep |
11 |
Melbourne Hosts World Economic Forum |
| 2000 |
Sep |
15 |
The XXVII Olympiad Begin In Sydney, Australia |
| 2001 |
Jul |
28 |
Swimmer Ian Thorpe, First To Win Six Gold Medals |
| 2009 |
Feb |
07 |
Austrialia's Worst Natural Disaster At Victoria |
| 2010 |
Jun |
24 |
Julia Gillard Became Prime Minister |