Sept 11 WTC destroyed - War on Terrorism declared (2001)Sydney Olympics, Sept. 2000						Brian Kennedy succeeds Betty Churcher as Director Australian National Gallery (1997) End of communist Russia "Bran Nue Dae" (Aboriginal musical by Jemmy Chi) premieres at Perth Festival Direct broadcasting of Senate Question time begins on television Gulf War - Riots in LA domestic aviation market deregulated; two air-line policy ends Internet becomes huge death of Patrick White 1994 Sea Cat Tasmania begins operating across Bass Strait Earth Summit in Rio - Dolly the first cloned sheep - Babe the sheep-pig star - Hubble telescope in space 1994 – Inaugural exhibition of the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra Princess Diana's funeral – Famine in Ethiopia – Sydney chosen as site for the 2000 Olympics (1993) Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991) Occupational Health & Safety Act (1991) Carmen Lawrence first female Premier (WA) (1990) Tim Macartney-Snape first person to climb Mt Everest from Sea level (having begun at Bay of Bengal, 1990) The World becomes the first commercial provider of dial-up Internet access (1990) – WWW invented ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission created (1990)
Martin report, recommends broad deregulation of banking industry (1984) Wreck of the Titanic found (1985) ‘Advance Australia Fair’ replaces ‘God Save the Queen’ as Australia’s National Anthem 1984 In Qld 3 babies died after receiving blood contaminated with AIDS (1984) ANU researchers found evidence in the Lake George sediment cores that Aborigines had been there as early as 130 000 years ago 1984 Aug 1983 National Wage Case (Accord 1) West boycott Moscow Olympics Space shuttles maiden voyageStar Wars & ET - Van Gogh sells for $50 million 1983 National Wage Case (Accord 1) John Lennon assassinated Ash Wednesday bushfires in SA and Vic (1983) Microsoft Windows (1983) movies is SFX Medicare Australia’s community refugee settlement scheme begins (1982) Japan makes more cars than the US Freedom of Information Act (1982) Charles & Diana wed Royal Commission into BLF and the Ship Painters and Dockers Union. Deregistration of BLF recommended (1982) IBM PC (1981) Falkland War - Rubik cube craze Franklin River Dam protests (1980) Soviet invasion of afghanistan (1980) Australian and American Scientists uncover worlds oldest known fossil near Marble Bar, WA (1980)
						Sony Walkman (1979) Sydney Hilton bombing (1978) refugee ‘boat people’ arrive from Vietnam (1978) Greenpeace Granville train disaster (1977) Apple II home Personal Computer (1977) Vietnam war (1966 - 1975) Walt Disney Florida Kaftans Patrick White receives Nobel Prize for Literature The Punk Phenomena 1st test tube baby - Margaret Thatcher Aboriginal flag designed by Harold Thomas (1972) Colour TV introduced into Australia (1975) end of government policy of ‘assimilation’ of Aboriginal people Medibank (1975) 1975 Whitlam’s dismissal Countdown launched by ABCTV (1974) Bathurst gaol riots (1974) Cyclone Tracy (1974) Federal Government pays 1.3 million for Blue Poles (1973) Wine casks introduced (1973) Opera House opened (1973) Labor party wins election for first time since 1949 (1972) - Aboriginal tent embassy established (1972)National Wage and Equal Pay Cass judgement (1972) 355 million year old footprint found in Gippsland Victoria (1972) Moratoriums in all states first Green Bans declared by the NSW Builders Labourers Federation (1971) - Springbok tour (1971) - First Aboriginal person elected to Federal Parliament (Neville Bonner, 1971) -sand mining on Fraser Island (1971) Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch published (1970)Tullamarine airport opened in Melbourne (1970)
1969 Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Blue mountain bushfires burn for 4 weeks (1968) all the way with LBJ (1966) Influenced by rock music, "Mod" scene makes London major fashion centre Gurindji Aborigines walk off Wave Hill and Newcastle Waters cattle stations beginning 7 years fight to obtain title to their land (1966) Pierre Cardin becomes first designer to license his name for various products; is first to create ready-to-wear lines first men in spaceArthur Calwell shot (1966) StarTrek sets out first conscripts leave for Vietnam (1966) heart transplant - Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution (1966) Sabin oral poliomyelitis vaccine launched (1965)Lake Burley Griffin is filled in Canberra (1964) Churchill dies - National Service Act conscription for 20 year olds (1964)HMAS voyager sinks of Jervis Bay (1964) 1964 The Beatles Australian concert tour Kennedy assassinated (1963) Mt Isa Coalminers strike (1963) Martin Luther king "I have a dream" speech (1963) Aborigines in WA, Qld and NT gain right to vote in Federal elections (1962) Monroe found dead (1962) Australian military advisers sent to Vietnam (1962) Russians put first man in space (Yuri Gagarin, 1961) Bay of Pigs invasion (1961) Berlin wall goes up Oral contraceptive for Australian women (1961) 210 telescope completed at Parkes (1961)
						Australian and NZ congress of International Co-operation and Disarmament held in Melbourne (1959) Apartheid made law in South Africa control of Christmas Island transferred to Australia (1958) – Albert Namatjira sentenced to 6 months gaol (1958)Competition to design the Opera House won by Joern Utzon (1957) Labour movement alters policy of compulsory unionism to preference for unionists (1957) – National Civic Council established (1957) 1956 Olympics 1956 Television introduced to Australia to coincide with the Melbourne Olympics Six o’clock closing of hotels in NSW ends (1955) Royal Visit (1954) heart lung machine 100,000 Holden rolls off the production line (1953) Everest climbedStalin dies Northern Territory passes bill giving citizenship rights to all Territory Aborigines (1953) Mills Cross Radio Telescope developed at CSIRO (1953) DNA discovered - 4 minute mile broken - the Beat generation - 50 million TV sets Atomic testing begins at Woomera, SA (1953) - NZ wharfies lockout Britain explodes first atomic weapon on Montebello Islands off WA (1952) ANZUS Treaty signed (1951) Communist Party dissolution bill becomes law (1950) Australian troops sent to Korea (1950) Monash University Act passed to establish a new university in Melbourne to concentrate on technology China invade TibetMyxomatosis virus released (1950)
1949 Coal Strike 10,000 railwaymen strike (1948) wartime austerity replaced with the glamour of the "New Look tight waist, stiff petticoats, billowing skirts Snowy River Mountain Scheme begins (1948)Anti-tuberculosis campaign begins (1948)Pharmaceutical Benefits Act passed (1947) 1947 ABC’s independent radio news service commences Nationalisation of Banks (1947)World War II forces many Paris couture houses to close - (1947) rationing (1944) First mobile miniature bar WW2 - holocaust Liberal Party formally constituted (1944) Australian Metal Trades Employers Association formed as federal employer body (1943) Japanese submarines sunk off east coast of Australia (1942) Christian Dior re-establishes Paris as fashion centre Kidney dialysis machine invented Kokoda trail (1942) haute couture revived Atomic bombLabour movement adopts compulsory unionism as official policy (1942)Pollocks drip painting UN draws up human rights - Donald Bradman retires - nylon stockings Strike by Aboriginal stockmen, Pilbara Northern Territory affects 20 out of 22 stations one million TV sets – -National Child Endowment Scheme (1941)
						Gandhi in salt marches Great Depression – Phar Lap Black Friday bushfires in Victoria (1939) National Register meets fierce resistance from trade unions (1939) – Australia at War (1939) ‘Topless’ bathing for men allowed on beaches (1938). Wharfies at Port Kembla refuse to load pig iron headed to Japan (1938) Australian Abo Call begins publication in Sydney (1938)– Australians join International Brigades in Spanish Civil War (1937) Mary Gilmore was made Dame of the British Empire (1937) Poliomyelitis outbreak (1937) Mao's long march Death of last Tasmanian Tiger in captivity (1936) Cinema goes talkie All Australian congress against War and Fascism (1934) Shirley Temple Australian Antarctic Territory created (1933) Bonnie & Clyde shot dead Sydney Harbour Bridge open (1932) Nazi Germany Empire State Building completed (1932) Arnhem Land declared an Aboriginal reserve (1931) Two halves Sydney harbour Bridge are joined (1930)
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Timber workers strike, NSW coalminers lockout (1929) - 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith flies the first trans-Pacific flight in the Southern Cross (1928) - Commonwealth Parliament transferred to Canberra from Melbourne (1927) Surrealists first exhibition Aborigines banned from central Perth (1927)Leica 35-mm camera the ‘candid camera' Australasian Council of Trade Unions formed (1927) - Lenin dies - first chair of Anthropology established in Australia at University of Sydney (1925) compulsory voting introduced (1924) 640 Victorian police strike (1923) Tutankhamum's tomb discovered Vegemite developed (1923) - Melbourne University Press was founded. First publication was Myra Willard’s "History of the white Australia policy" in 1923 1923 First radio station in Sydney Roaring 20s Australian Country Party formed in Melb (1920) Women participate in sports, prompting new styles, including the "flapper" US women right to vote - Communist Party of Australia formed (1920) Popularity of rayon causes decline in use of cotton (mid 1920s) Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services founded (1920) Charlie Chaplins The Kid Australia gains New Guinea as mandated territory (1920)
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						‘Spanish Flu’ epidemic. 11,500 kiConscription Referendum (1916) – 6 o’clock closing in SA, NSW, Vic and Tas (1916) – Industrial Workers of the World gaoled in Sydney (1916)lled (1919) - Solider Settlement Scheme (1919) NSW Teachers Federation formed (1918) Entire Australian wool clip sold to British Government (1918) General Strike begins on railways (1917) Gallipoli, Lone Pine (1915) Australians at War. 59, 342 killed in action (1914-1918) – Australia’s first double dissolution (1914) Canberra formally inaugurated (1913) WW1 prompts women to work in factories, offices; women wear pants; military cut influences clothes Russian Revolution - Radio big One Big Union Movement (1913) Prohibition in US Country Party formed in WA (1913) Culwalla Chambers completed in Sydney. Australia’s first skyscraper (1912) first blast furnace at BHPs ironworks at Newcastle, NSW Titanic sinks General strike involving 43 unions begins at Brisbane Tramways Company (1912) Largest concrete dome in the world erected over the reading room of Public library in Melb (1912) Race to the Poles SS Yongala sinks off Qld coast (1911) 1909 –New rust-proof Warner Corsets shipped to Australia (N29/128)
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Broken Hill miners lockout (1909) Canberra site selected for National Capital (1908) – Visit of Rear Admiral Sperry and Fleet of the United States of America (1908) minimum wage established in Harvester Judgement (1907) rabbit proof fence erected in WA (1907) deportation of Pacific Islander workers (Kanakas) from Qld (1906) Bondi Surf Bathers Lifesaving Club formed in Sydney, first such club in the world (1906) Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act (1904) Einstein’s relativity Mt Kembla mine explosion kills 94 (1902) Model T Ford Albert Namitjira born (1902) Mitchell Library opened in Sydney (1901) Fingerprinting first used in policing Commonwealth of Australia inaugurated (1901) Wright Bros 1st flight Australaian Federation (1901) Earl of Hopetoun first Governor General (1900) Queen Victoria dies Australians fight in Boer War Robert Reid summer season men’s & women’s hats catalogues with military symbolism referring to the Boer War (1900) Freud – The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) First horse-drawn tram First Nobel Prize Bubonic plague in Australia (1900)
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						Lithgow Miners win reduction in hours from 57 to 54. Manchester Unity jubilee Radioactivity of Uranium discovered Boer War (1899-1902) Zeppelin airship (1899) Boxer Rebellion (1899) first Australian contingents embarked for service in Boer War (1899) - New South Wales Early Closing Act (1899) Radium discovered by Marie Curie (1898) First edition of labour journal Toscin (1897) 60th year of reign of Queen Victoria (1897) Cinema, safety razors, wireless telegraphy and X-rays all invented (1895) –Manchester Ship Canal completed (1894) Closer settlement (1893) Australian workers Union formed (1894) Franchise extended to women in SA (1894) – common time zones established in Australia (1894) Publication of Picturesque Atlas of Australasia- First issue of the Worker published by the Australian Labour Federation in Brisbane First public telephone installed in New South Wales at GPO (1893) Australian demands for Trade protection and unification (1891) Hummer, journal of the Amalgamated Shearers Union begins publication in Wagga Wagga (1891) Inter-Colonial Congress, Ballarat (1891) - WA population dramatically increased due to the government policies (1890s) General strike begins with maritime strike involves NSW, Vic, Qld & SA (1890) - Pastoralists Union of NSW formed (1890)
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Inaugural meeting of Australian Labor Federation (1889) – Eiffel Tower completed (1889)– Henry Parkes calls for an Australian parliament (1889) – first strike of fully unionised workforce in Broken Hill mines (1889) Australian Socialist League formed in Sydney (1887) Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes (1887) National Liberal League formed (1886) - Amalgamated Shearers Union formed (1886) in Ballarat - formation of Intercolonial Investment Land & Building Co Victorian Employers Union formed in response to Vic Operative Bootmakers Union lockout and co-ordination of Trades Hall Council (1885) – Broken Hill proclaimed (1885) Hugh McKay demonstrates stripper harvester in Victoria (1884) – (1885) - Daimler and Benz build automobile (1885) Canadian Pacific railway completed first consignment of sugar grown in Qld despatched from Cairns (1883) Brooklyn Bridge opened (large suspension bridge, a triumph of engineering) (1883) – Burns Philp Co Ltd founded (1883) - First union for women, the Victorian Tailoresses Union established (1882) Indian National Congress formed Melbourne International Exhibition (1880) – first Australian Census (1881) Gordon killed in Khartoum Vic, SA and Tasmanian unions form The Australian Typographical Association (1880) First issue of the Bulletin published in Sydney (1880)
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						First Intercolonial Trades Union Congress, Sydney (1879) – Ord River named (1879 – first shipment of frozen meat and butter sent to London by Thomas Mort (1879)Steamship Owners Association of Australasian formed (1878) daily weather charts issued in press (1877) – Ned Kelly -Wolseley sheep shearing machine patent registered (1877) Coalminers Strike Phonograph invented (1877 – Edison) followed by the microphone and the incandescent lamp - Stump jump plough invented and exhibited in SA (1876) Foxes released into wild Anthrax discovered (1876) Adelaide Steamship Company founded (1875) First Impressionist exhibition Paris (1874) Marcus Clarke’s novel His Natural Life published (1874) Australia’s first reafforestation policy, SA (1873) Bell invents telephone (1873) Northern Coal Sales Association formed by five major companies on NSW coal fields (1872) Overland telegraph from Port Augusta to Port Darwin completed and Tasmanian telegraph linked to mainland by submarine cable (1872) Annual 8 hour day celebration inaugurated Sydney (1871) Trade unions become legal GB (1871) Australian Natives Association formed (1871)
Suez Canal opened (1869) AA Co Newcastle Strike Periodic table produced by Mendeléev (1869)– Bushrangers - Intercolonial Exhibition - Polynesian Labour Act passed (1868) - great Melbourne telescope constructed (1868) Gladstone elected PM BG (1868) (1867) – Alfred Noble produces dynamite Gold women at this time also wore tailored jackets with collar and lapels, the forerunner of the suit Melbourne Cup inaugurated - Riot at Brisbane demanding ‘Bread or Blood’ (1866)The Australian Journal (1865-1962) Lewis Carroll’s Alices Adventure in Wonderland (1865) The bustle became fashionable for women after 1865 NT land sales (1863) – Salmon eggs arrive in Hobart from England (1863) Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde Hunter River Coalminers Mutual Protective Association formed fashion for men changing e.g. knee breeches, knickerbockers, knickers, sweaters Northern Territory placed under administration of SA (1863) William Arnott establishes bakery in Newcastle (1863) City Mission established (1862)TUC formed Lambing Flat riots (1861) sport becoming popular, especially golf and tennis American Civil war (1861-65)Australia's first literary weekly publication. It preferred material set inside the colony, and tended to reject that "which did not consider colonial subjects, or which did not in some way treat colonial life"Stoning of Parliament House (Melbourne) by unemployed (1860)
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						colony of Queensland proclaimed (1859) Melbourne Trade Hall and Literary Institute opened (1859) Indian Mutiny (1857-58) Charles Darwin "Origin of the Species" (1858) Sydney plasterers win 8 hour day (1857) - Fort Denison constructed, Sydney (1857) Secret ballot or the ‘Australian ballot’ introduced in Vic (1856) - 8 hour day campaigns - May Day (1856) -Men wore tailcoats and frock coats, sack coats (sometimes without the vest) synthetic colours invented (1856) Tasmania officially replaces Van Diemans Land (1855) Yale lock invented (1855) Eureka stockade (1854) Australian Steam Navigation Co founded - Cobb & Co formed in Melb (1853) First refrigerator ship Australia’s first free public library (1853)Measles reported for the first time in Australia - Gold rushes Australian branch of Amalgamated Society of Engineers founded (1852) Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, London (1851)Australasian League for Abolition of transportation and a ‘great Australian republic’ (1850) Flaubert Madame Bovary first convicts in WA (1850) - Australian Colonies Government Act created colony of Victoria (1850) - First Victorian trade union formed, Stonemasons (1850) women wore hoops, sleeves bell shaped, waist and necklines were pointed
California Gold Rush (1849) shorter hours movement begins in Sydney (1840) Ether used in a major operation (1846) first camel to reach Australia lands in Hobart (1840) Australasian Sugar Co established Safety pin patented (1849) Bank of Australia collapse Speed of light accurately measured (Fizeau ) (1949) Communist Manifesto (1848)Boole invents mathematical logic (1847) Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847) First railway in New South Wales linking Sydney and Goulburn Treaty of Waitangi Strike of Australian Society of Compositors (Sydney Herald) - Engels’ Condition of the working class in England (1845) Tailors and carpenters and joiners strike Galvanised corrugated iron invented, pneumatic tyre invented (1845) Australian Mutual Protection Association formed - Mort & Co established (1843) New Zealand proclaimed a colony - Hunter River Steam Navigation Co established Decorative crinoline First postage stamps - J.M.W. Turner "Rain Steam, Speed" (1844) Typewriter invented. (1843) First bicycle (1840) Canadian Provinces Act of Union End of transportation to New South Wales Marriage of Queen Victoria to Albert (1840)
						Daguerre perfects the Daguerrotype (1838) Rpt of select committee of the House of Commons on Aborigines (1838) recommending establishment of ‘Protectors of Aborigines’ – formation of Adelaide Chamber of Commerce (1838) "Great Western"--first ocean-going steamship (1837) - First overland mail left for Sydney & Melbourne (1837) Tooths Kent Brewery established (1835) - HMS Beagle arrives (1836) First Lutherans arrived in Australia fleeing religious persecution in Germany First Australian Temperance Society (1834) Dr John Lhotsky published first European arrangement of Aboriginal music Publication of the Parramatta catalogue of 7,385 stars observed by Governor Brisbane’s observatory in 1825 Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code.  SA Colonization Act receives royal assent Men's clothing construction begins to acquire the internal padding, interfacings and complex structure that makes modern men's suit. First novel printed in Australia was published (Henry Savery’s Quintus Servinton: a tale founded upon incidents of real occurrence First steamship to be built in Australia "SS Surprise" (25 tonnes) launched at Neutral Bay, NSW Fox Talbot produces photographs. (1834) Charles Babbage develops his analytic engine--the forerunner of the computer Port Arthur founded as penal settlement (1830)
Stephenson’s Rocket (1829) - Foundation of Perth (1829) – Sydney Shipwrights Association formed (1829) Braille invented (1829) Dutch manufacturer Houten develops the chocolate bar (1828) Straights settlement; Penang, Malacca and Singapore (1826) Bank of Australia opened (1826) - First of the ‘colonial’ blue books published, detailing statistics of NSW (1826) 1826 – Sydney’s first street light (an oil lamp) was litdiscovery of tea bush in India ends Chinese monopoly Van Diemens Land Co. established (1825) Australian Agricultural Co established (1824) 1824 First publication of the Australian Famine in Ireland Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (1824) Rubberised cotton developed by Macintosh (1823) Rugby invented (1823)Great Britain--first large, iron, screw-propelled steamship sails (1822) Death of Napoleon (1821) George IV King (1820) - whales were slaughtered in Australian and New Zealand waters for lamp oil, brushes, candles, and women's corsets. Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principles of the motor engine (1820)
						Stephenson’s Rocket (1829) - Foundation of Perth (1829) – Sydney Shipwrights Association formed (1829) Braille invented (1829) Dutch manufacturer Houten develops the chocolate bar (1828) Straights settlement; Penang, Malacca and Singapore (1826) Bank of Australia opened (1826) - First of the ‘colonial’ blue books published, detailing statistics of NSW (1826) 1826 – Sydney’s first street light (an oil lamp) was litdiscovery of tea bush in India ends Chinese monopoly Van Diemens Land Co. established (1825) Australian Agricultural Co established (1824) 1824 First publication of the Australian Famine in Ireland Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (1824) Rubberised cotton developed by Macintosh (1823) Rugby invented (1823)Great Britain--first large, iron, screw-propelled steamship sails (1822) Death of Napoleon (1821) George IV King (1820) - whales were slaughtered in Australian and New Zealand waters for lamp oil, brushes, candles, and women's corsets. Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic rotation, the principles of the motor engine (1820)