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By the 1880s half the Australian population lived in towns, making Australia more urbanised than the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. [30] Between 1870 and 1890 average income per person in Australia was more than 50 per cent higher than that of the United States, giving Australia one of the highest living standards in the world. [31]
Timeline of Australian history 1851 in Australia was a watershed year. It saw the start of the Australian gold rushes with significant gold discoveries in both New South Wales (near Bathurst ) in February and Victoria in July. [ 1 ]
The song "Wild One" makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit "A Pub with No Beer" becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. 1959: 1 March: Construction begins on the Sydney Opera House. It will eventually cost $102 Million. 1962
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
8 August 1851: The Geelong Advertiser reports that gold deposits had been discovered outside of Buninyong in central Victoria by Mr Thomas Hiscock. [2] 16 August 1851: Lieutenant Governor Charles Joseph Latrobe issues a proclamation providing for a gold mining licence fee of 30 shillings per month, effective 1 September 1851. [3] [4]
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 territory of Australia. 1791 ...
Pages in category "1851 in Australia" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. ... Timeline of the Eureka Rebellion; V. Van Diemen's Land v Port ...
1696: Willem de Vlamingh charts the southwestern coast of Australia, making landfall at Rottnest Island and the site of the present-day city of Perth. 1792 : Two French ships, La Recherche and L'Espérance , anchor in what was named Recherche Bay, near the southernmost point of Tasmania at a time when England and France were vying to be the ...