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Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. [2]
1958 – Australia's first and only nuclear reactor HIFAR goes critical for the first time, full power generation occurs for the first time in 1960. 1958 – Thousands of Greek men riot in Melbourne when the bridal ship Castel Felice is nine hours late; 1959 – Darwin is granted city status. 1960 – The Australian of the Year awards are first ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian ... the first permanent European settlement on Australia.
26 January: Robert Menzies retire as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. 26 January: The Beaumont Children Jane (9), Arnna (7), and Grant (4) disappear from Glenelg Beach. 14 February: Decimalisation; the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian dollar replacing the ...
Recorded celebrations of the 26 January date back to 1808 in Australia, and in 1818, Governor Lachlan Macquarie held the first official celebration of Australia Day. [34] 26 January was chosen because it is the day of the establishment of the first British settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Arthur Phillip in 1788. [35]
26 January 1838. The Waterloo Creek massacre , also known as the Australia Day massacre. A New South Wales Mounted Police detachment, despatched by acting Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass , attacked an encampment of Kamilaroi people at a place called Waterloo Creek in remote bushland. [ 39 ]
The Two Australia Day campaign proposes that January 25 should be "First Australians Day" – a mourning for the last unspoiled day of Indigenous life – and that January 26 should be rebranded as "New Australians Day", a day to celebrate Australia's rich history of immigration. [65]
The Australian Natives Association, campaigned for an Australian federation within the British Empire, promoted Australian literature and history, and successfully lobbied for the 26 January to be Australia's national day.