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Melbourne

capital city of Victoria, Australia

28 dated entries naming Melbourne, drawn from 26 separate years between 1835 CE and 1987 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1835August 30 – European settlers, landing on the north banks of the Yarra River in Victoria, Australia, found the settlement of Melbourne.source
  • 1840January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded.source
  • 1854March 3 – Australia's first telegraph line, linking Melbourne and Williamstown, Victoria, opens.source
  • 1854October 17 – The Age newspaper is founded in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1856April 21 – Building workers agitate for the eight-hour day in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1861November 5 – The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1874May 23 – Passenger ship British Admiral, on a voyage from Liverpool (England) to Melbourne (Australia), sinks after hitting rocks off King Island (Tasmania); only nine of the 88 passengers and crew are rescued.source
  • 1880November 11 – Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly is hanged in Melbourne.source
  • 1881April 25 – Caulfield Grammar School is founded in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1885February 20 – The Richmond Football Club is officially formed at the Royal Hotel in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria.source
  • 1892June 11 – The Limelight Department, later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1898March 16 – In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution which will become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.source

20th century

  • 1901May 9 – The first Australian Parliament opens in Melbourne.source
  • 1903November 28 – is wrecked on a reef outside Melbourne, Australia, causing one of the world's first major oil spills.source
  • 1908April 20 – Sunshine rail disaster: A rear-end collision of two trains in Melbourne, Australia kills 44 people and injures more than 400.source
  • 1922September 11 – The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia, Herald Sun, is founded.source
  • 1923November 1 – The 1923 Victorian Police strike begins in Australia, with half of the Victoria Police force standing down over the use of labor spies. Rioting and looting take place in Melbourne city centre.source
  • 1927May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Previously, the Parliament had met in Melbourne, Victoria.source
  • 1934October 20–November 5 – The MacRobertson Air Race is flown from RAF Mildenhall in England to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the centenary of the state of Victoria. The overall winner is the British de Havilland DH.88 Comet G-ACSS Grosvenor House, flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.source
  • 1955December 19 – Australian comedian Barry Humphries first introduces his character Edna Everage on stage in Melbourne.source
  • 1956June 10 – 1956 Summer Olympics: Equestrian events open in Stockholm, Sweden (all other events are held in November in Melbourne, Australia).source
  • 1956November 22 – The 1956 Summer Olympics begin in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1967December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime Minister of Australia, disappears when swimming at Cheviot Beach, 60 km from Melbourne. He was briefly replaced as prime minister by John McEwen, until the Liberal Party elected Minister for Education and Science John Gorton as leader.source
  • 1970October 15 – A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.source
  • 1976April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne, Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.source
  • 1978October 21 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 Skylane over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.source
  • 1986August 19 – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting The Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.source
  • 1987August 9 – Hoddle Street massacre in Australia: Julian Knight, 19, goes on a shooting rampage in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill, Victoria, killing 7 people and injuring 19 before surrendering to police.source

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