Shopping cart

Your shopping cart is empty.
Archives / Magazine / On This Day

Magazine: On This Day


 
General Post Office - before extensions, view from George St, Sydney. Digital ID 4481_a026_000323
24 Jul 1936 - talking clock service
Old Police Court (now the site of the Queen Victoria Building), George Street, Sydney. Digital ID 4481_a026_000414
20 Jul 1842 - Sydney incorporated as a city
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. Digital ID 14086_a005_a005SZ845000017r
6 Jul 1813 - first wool exported to UK
Sydney Observatory, 31 October 1901. Digital ID 4481_a026_000241
4 Jul 1826 - Parramatta Observatory appointment
Parramatta Railway Station c.1910. Digital ID 17420_a014_a0140001193
3 Jul 1850 - work on first railway line
Police Service Register 1915 showing Maude Rhodes and Lillian Armfield at the top. NRS 10945 8-3259 p49
1 Jul 1915 - first female police officers in Australia
Princes Highway, Victoria - New South Wales border, 1931. From the albums of the Board of Fire Commissioners, digital ID 549_a029_a029000359
1 Jul 1851 - VIC separated from NSW
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
Murrumbidgee River, Gundagai, n.d. Digital ID 12932-a012-a012X2444000096
25 Jun 1852 - flood disaster in Gundagai
Eveleigh Heist exhibit 7 from the trial - photo of Samuel Freeman. NRS 880 9-7189
24 Jun 1924 - Eveleigh Heist arrest
Coronation Day Procession 22 June 1911. Schools and Friendly Societies of Woonona, Bulli, Thirroul. Digital ID 15051_a047_004061
22 Jun 1911 - Coronation Day, King George V
Plan extension of Semi-Circular Quay, 14 Jan 1854. From NRS 12444 Harbours and Rivers, SR Plan 1282,
19 Jun 1854 - work began on Circular Quay
On This Day
19 Jun 1822 - Bigge Report
On This Day
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
On This Day
15 Jun 1862 - largest gold robbery in Australia
On This Day
14 Jun 1825 - VDL separated from NSW

Social

Follow us