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Sydney Town Hall and MC of Sydney Subjects, no date. NRS-21243-3-1-946
9 Aug 1890 - first Grand Organ recital at Town Hall
Cleansing Operations, Quarantine Area, Sydney, 1900c. Jul 1900. Digital ID 12487_a021_a021000038
8 Aug 1789 - first NSW police force formed
Central Railway Station Sydney, c.1915. Digital ID 17420_a014_a014000271
4 Aug 1906 - (3rd) Sydney Central Railway Station opened
3 Aug 1838 - report criticizing transportation to NSW
Locomotive drivers. From the photograph album of Eveleigh Workshops during the 1917 railway strike, 16 August 1917. Digital ID 15309_a015_000008
2 Aug 1917 - General Strike began
Snowy mountains for network
1 Aug 1949 - Snowy Mountains Authority established
Sydney Harbour Bridge - Safety Chain, on Top Chord
28 Jul 1923 - SHB construction began
Sir Henry Parkes and ministry (cropped). Digital ID 4481_a026_000784
25 Jul 1839 - Henry Parkes arr. in Sydney
General Post Office - before extensions, view from George St, Sydney. Digital ID 4481_a026_000323
24 Jul 1936 - talking clock service
Act (6 Vic No. 3) to incorporate Sydney as a city
20 Jul 1842 - Sydney incorporated as a city
Captain Matthew Flinders
19 Jul 1814 - Matthew Flinders died
Cleansing Operations, Quarantine Area, Sydney, 1900c. Jul 1900. Digital ID 12487_a021_a021000038
17 Jul 1900 - Cleansing Sydney of Bubonic Plague
Railway History Card for Ben Chifley NRS 12922
13 Jul 1945 - Ben Chifley became Prime Minister
8 Jul 1904 - Sydney streets lit by electricity
Wool Exhibit, NSW Court at Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908
6 Jul 1813 - first wool exported to UK
Parramatta Observatory plan
4 Jul 1826 - Parramatta Observatory appointment
Parramatta Railway Station c.1910
3 Jul 1850 - work on first railway line
30 Jun 1861 - Lambing Flat riot
St Marys Cathedral c.1908. Digital ID 18526_a024_000113
29 Jun 1865 - St Marys Cathedral destroyed by fire
A digital Indent, accessible from the Early Convict Index
28 Jun 1790 - last of the Second Fleet arrived
26 Jun 1790 - Surprize arrived with NSW Corps
22 Jun 1911 - Coronation Day, King George V
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19 Jun 1822 - Bigge Report
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18 Jun 1829 - new colony of WA proclaimed
The Great Depression and Class Wars of the 1930s. NRS 333 Attorney General and Justice: Special bundles, 1874-1984 5-7784.1. Demands by various organisations for the release of Tighes Hill and Bankstown eviction and class war prisoners, 1930-32
17 Jun 1931 - Great Depression, riot in Bankstown
16 Jun 1893 - Universal male suffrage in NSW
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14 Jun 1825 - VDL separated from NSW
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (undated). NRS-9856-2-156-2966A
13 Jun 1816 - road to Mrs Macquaries Chair
Screenshot of the Eveleigh Heist Gallery
10 Jun 1914 - Eveleigh Heist
Invermein Court of Petty Sessions: Letter from William Hobbs to Police Magistrate Invermein concerning the Myall Creek Massacre. NRS 19437 SZ1053
10 Jun 1838 - Myall Creek Massacre

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