Perth

capital city of Western Australia, Australia

7 dated entries naming Perth, drawn from 6 separate years between 1829 CE and 2018 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.

Also written as Perth, Western Australia in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1829June 3 – The Swan River Colony (later to become the cities of Perth and Fremantle) is founded in Western Australia. This secures the western third of the Australian landmass for the British.source
  • 1829August 12 – Mrs. Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cuts down a tree to mark the founding day of the town of Perth, Western Australia.source

20th century

  • 1963January 26 – The Australia Day shootings rock Perth; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others injured by Eric Edgar Cooke.source
  • 1964October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth between 1959 and 1963.source
  • 1978May 15 – First Timezone Opens in Perth, Western Australiasource

21st century

  • 2012June 7 – Morley and Dianella in Perth, Western Australia, have a once in a decade tornado.source
  • 2018March 25 – Qantas launches direct non-stop Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights between Perth Airport and Heathrow Airport, making it the first commercially non-stop service between Australia and the United Kingdom.source

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