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| 1 | 1873 | - 1873: Ayers Rock sighted
Uluru was first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
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| 2 | 1880 | - 11 Nov 1880: Ned Kelly hanged
The bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged.
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| 3 | 1883 | - 1883: Sydney–Melbourne railway
The opening of the Sydney–Melbourne railway.
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| 4 | 1889 | - 24 Oct 1889: Tenterfield Oration
Sir Henry Parkes delivered the Tenterfield Oration.
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| 5 | 1890 | - 26 Apr 1890: "The Man from Snowy River" published
Banjo Paterson published "The Man from Snowy River"
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| 6 | 1891 | - 1891: Great Shearers' Strike
One of Australia's earliest and most important industrial disputes.
The dispute was primarily between unionised and non-unionised wool workers. It resulted in the formation of large camps of striking workers, and instances of sabotage and violence on both sides. The strike was poorly timed, and when the union workers ran out of food, they were forced to come to terms. The outcome is credited as being one of the factors for the formation of the Australian Labor Party.
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| 7 | 1893 | - 1893: Corowa Conference
The Corowa Conference (the "people's convention") called on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.
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| 8 | 1894 | - 1894: SA grant woman's right to vote
South Australia became the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
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| 9 | 1895 | - 1895: "Waltzing Matilda" sung
"Waltzing Matilda" was first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
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| 10 | 1896 | - 1896: Bathurst Conference
The Bathurst Conference (the second "people's convention") met to discuss the 1891 draft constitution.
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| 11 | 1901 | - 1 Jan 1901: Australia becomes a federation
Australia becomes a federation. Edmund Barton becomes the 1st Prime Minister of Australia; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General
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| 12 | 1902 | - 27 Feb 1902: Breaker Morant executed
Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered.
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| 13 | 1908 | - 1908: Dorothea Mackellar publishes "My Country".
- 1908: Canberra site chosen
The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead.
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Barton Family History
1872 - 1940 (68 years)