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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

Action - Official Journal of the National Emergency Services. Shelling of Sydney, 8 June 1942. NRS 19987 6-16010-4 Vol 4 No 4 pp10-11

8 Jun 1942 - Sydney & Newcastle under attack

Entrance gates to Darlinghurst Gaol, nd. Digital ID 4481_a026_000669

7 Jun 1841 - Darlinghurst Gaol opened

6 Jun 1859 - QLD separated from NSW

4 Jun 1819 - Hyde Park Barracks opened

A digital Indent, accessible from the Early Convict Index

3 Jun 1790 - convict ship Lady Juliana arrived

50th Anniversary Gallery

1 Jun 1961 - Archives Authority established

Get Up Stand Up - an anti-smoking film from 1981

31 May is World No Tobacco Day

Plan of Sydney Harbour protection net shows arrangement of dolphins (piles) along with opening and navigation signals. The net was not complete when the Japanese midget submarine from I-27 was caught up in it on 31 May 1942.2. NRS 20011 18-1716.2

31 May 1942 - Sydney under attack

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30 May 1898 - steamer SS Ly-ee-Moon ran aground

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27 May 1828 - Thomas Livingstone Mitchell became the Surveyor-General

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