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Tasmania

state of Australia

16 dated entries naming Tasmania, drawn from 14 separate years between 1642 CE and 1996 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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17th century

  • 1642November 24 – Abel Tasman and his crew become the first Europeans to discover "Van Diemen's Land", later the Australian island and state of Tasmania, and the island is claimed for the Netherlands on December 3 at what becomes Prince of Wales Bay.source

18th century

  • 17979 February – Sydney Cove wrecked off Tasmania. Some of the crew manage to reach Sydney more than 600 km away, leading to the rescue of other members of the crew.source
  • 17997 January – Bass and Flinders complete their circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land in sloop Norfolk.source

19th century

  • 18254 March – A penal settlement is established on Maria Island, Tasmania.source
  • 1827January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place in Tasmania (called at the time Van Diemen's Land), on the River Derwent at Hobart.source
  • 18454 August – The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off the coast of Tasmania, the 406 people on board drown.source
  • 1846June 15 – Launceston Church Grammar School opens for the first time in Tasmania.source
  • 18558 September – Queen Victoria signs an Order in Council to change the name of Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania.source
  • 1855October 24 – Van Diemen's Land is officially renamed Tasmania.source
  • 18644 May – The first trout hatchery in the southern hemisphere is established at Plenty, Tasmania.source
  • 1895The Duck Reach Power Station opens in Tasmania (the first publicly owned hydroelectric plant in the Southern Hemisphere).source

20th century

  • 1901January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minister of Australia.source
  • 1936September 7 – The last known thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger"), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.source
  • 1967February 7 – Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives and destroy 2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.source
  • 1996April 28 – Port Arthur massacre (Australia): Martin Bryant kills 35 people at the Port Arthur tourist site in Tasmania.source
  • 1996November 19 – Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1,035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree in Tasmania earlier this year.source

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