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  2. History of Sydney - Wikipedia

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    Australia's first rugby union club, the Sydney University Football Club, was founded in Sydney in the year 1863. [67] The New South Wales Rugby Union (or then, The Southern RU – SRU) was established in 1874, and the tradition of an annual club competition began in Sydney that year.

  3. Timeline of Sydney - Wikipedia

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    Sydney Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room founded. Sydney Dispensary established to provide medicine and outpatient care for the poor. [34] Visiting painter Augustus Earle paints portraits of leading citizens. 1827 – Australian Museum established. [35] 1828 Thieves steal some £14,000 in Bank of Australia robbery.

  4. Sydney - Wikipedia

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    The Founding of Australia, 26 January 1788, by Captain Arthur Phillip R.N., Sydney Cove. Painting by Algernon Talmage. Britain had been sending convicts to its American colonies for most of the eighteenth century, and the loss of these colonies in 1783 was the impetus to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay. Proponents of colonisation also ...

  5. List of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement

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    Sydney: New South Wales: First permanent Australian city. [1] Largest city in Australia, capital of New South Wales. 1788 Parramatta: New South Wales Second-oldest settlement in Australia. [2] Now a part of the Sydney urban area. 1788 Kingston: Norfolk Island: Island settled as part of the Colony of New South Wales. [3] It is now a separate ...

  6. Australian Bicentenary - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Bicentennial Authority official logo. The bicentennial year marked Captain Arthur Phillip's arrival with the 11 ships of the First Fleet in Sydney Harbour in 1788, and the founding of the city of Sydney and the colony of New South Wales. 1988 is considered the official bicentenary year of the founding of Australia.

  7. History of New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    The State's third city, Wollongong, south of Sydney, was founded in 1829 as an outpost for a contingent of soldiers sent in response to conflict between local Aboriginal people and the unruly timber-getters who had established themselves in the area.

  8. History of Australia - Wikipedia

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    South Australia was founded as a free-colony, without convicts. The Province of South Australia was established in 1836 as a privately financed settlement based on the theory of "systematic colonisation" developed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Convict labour was banned in the hope of making the colony more attractive to "respectable" families and ...

  9. City of Sydney - Wikipedia

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    The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.