-
Captain Cook discoovered Australia
-
Men are granted the right to vote, if they're white, oay rent ot own their own home. governors and unelected councils no longer run the show.
-
Queensland seperated from NSW, becoming the only australian colony to begin life with its own parliament insteead of first spending time as a crown colony
-
Explorer john mcdouall stuart reaches what he measres to be the centre of the australian continent.
-
First melbourne cup horse race run, the sydney outsider, archer, wins the prize
-
(WWI) was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914
-
This was the year australian soldiers fight at gallipoli as part of a brave but futile attempt to capture the ottoman capital of constantinople.
-
The first day anzac day was celebrated
-
World war 1 ended with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
-
-
Sydney Harbour bridge opened
-
the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany. It involved many of the world's countries. the Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland.
-
The war in Europe ended with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union culminating in the capture of Berlin by Soviet and Polish troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender
-
Started construction on sydney opera house
-
sydney opera house opened
-
Sydney olympics opening ceremony
-
Closing ceremony for the 2000 sydney olympics
