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The history of Sydney is the story of the peoples of the land that has become modern Sydney. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common in the Sydney area. The traditional owners of the land on which modern Sydney stands are the Darug, Dharawal and ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The present St. Stephen's Anglican Church is the second church by that name in Newtown, both of which were designed by noted church architect, Edmund Blacket.A call for tenders for the construction of 'a small brick church at O'Connell Town', the original St. Stephen's Church, was placed in the Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 23 November 1844.
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 km (50 mi) from the Pacific Ocean in the east to the Blue Mountains in the west, and about 80 km (50 mi) from the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and the Hawkesbury River in the north and north-west ...
English Total Responses as a fraction of total persons, in Inner Sydney, Australia, according to the 2011 census results. English Australians, also known as Anglo-Australians, [3] are Australians whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
England and Australia played each other twice during the 1960s, first in 1963, when the Wallabies defeated England 18–9 at Sydney's Sports Ground, during England’s first tour overseas. They met again in 1967 during the 1966–67 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland and France and Australia triumphed 23–11 at Twickenham.
This settlement was abandoned in February 1828, and all convicts returned to Sydney. [23] The Port Phillip District was officially sanctioned in 1837 following the landing of the Henty brothers in Portland Bay in 1834, and John Batman settled on the site of Melbourne. Between 1844 and 1849 about 1,750 convicts arrived there from England.
Pages in category "History of Sydney" ... Sydney Technical College; T. Timeline of Sydney Harbour ferries; Tom Uglys Bridge; Trams in Sydney; Treasury Building, Sydney;