Some events in Australian and world history

By heatherwasson

  • Completion of transcontinental railway linking Brisbane to Perth

  • Federation-Australia becomes a new nation

  • Centenary of Federation

  • Australians first serve in the Boer War

  • End of the Boer War

  • First aeroplane flight, by the Wright brothers in USA

  • First Australian-born Governor-General, Sir Isaac Isaacs, appointed

  • Titanic sinks

  • Australia enters World War 1

  • Landing of Australian and other troops at Gallipoli

  • Influenza epidemic after World War l kills more people than the war

  • End of World War 1-an estimated 12 million dead

  • QANTAS starts flying planes in Australia

    QANTAS planes started flying in Australia because of World War 1.

  • Start of the Great Depression

  • First colour TV broadcast in Australia

  • Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup

  • Opening of the Sydney Harbour bridge

  • Last Tasmanian Tiger dies in captivity

  • Australia enters World War ll

  • Australian scientist Howard Florey discovers how to mass-produce penicillin, thus saving millions of lives around the world

  • Darwin is bombed for the first time during World War ll

  • Japanese submerines raid in Sydney Harbour

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • The first mass-produced car in Australia, the Holden, is completed

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights by United Nations

  • First Australian involvement in United Nations peacekeeping, in Indonesia

  • Australians first serve in the Korean War

  • The Victa motor mower is invented

  • Korean War ends

  • 'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley and the Comets starts the rock 'n roll era

  • TV starts in Australia

  • Melbourne host the Olympic Games

  • First Satellite in space, ' Sputnik'

  • First dog in space, 'Laika'

  • First human in space, Yuri Gagarin

  • First Australian soldiers sent to South Vietnam

  • First human heart transplant-in South Africa

  • First human on the moon, Neil Armstrong

    "One small step for man, one huge leap for mankind."

  • Decimal currency replaces pounds, shillings and pence

  • Australian troops withdrawn from Vietnam

  • Australian troops withdrawn from Vietnam

  • Cyclone Tracy wrecks Darwin

  • Elvis Presley dies

  • Azaria Chamberlain taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock (Uluru)

  • The film 'Gallipoli' is released

  • Ash Wednesday bushfires kill 72 people in Victoria and South Australia

  • South-West Tasmania is placed on the World Heritage list

  • Newcastle earthquake

  • First woman Premier, Carmen Lawrence, WA

  • The Beatles tour Australia

    The Beatles arrived in Australia on the 12/6/94 and departed
    20/6/94

  • Rabbit calicivirus disease accidentally released

  • Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania

  • Death of Princess Diana

  • Death of the last remaining 25 April Anzac, Ted Matthews

  • Australian troops go to East Timor as peacekeepers

  • World population reaches six billion

  • Sydney hosts the Olympic Games