1803 - Hanged at Castle Hill, New South Wales, John Lynch and James Tracey, for the assault and robbery of Samuel Phelps at Hawkesbury.
1809 - George Robert Nichols, one of the first native-born Australians to be admitted to the bar, is born.
1825 - Major Lockyer ascends Mount Brisbane, and explores Brisbane River to its junction with Stanley River.
1829 - The first assignment of Crown land is made in Western Australia.
1832 - Governor Bourke writes to the Legislative Assembly suggesting that a Sydney municipal body be formed. This is the first reference to the Municipality of Sydney.
1840 - York-street Baptist Chapel, Launceston, Tasmania, is opened for service.
1843 - A charter is issued fixing the boundaries of the Newcastle District Council, New South Wales, the area of the territory being 112,028 acres. It extended along the coast from Lake Macquarie entrance to the south side of Port Hunter, and inland to Hexham and the Sugarloaf. Mr. Alexander Scott was first Warden of the Council. Councillors: William Croasdall, George Brooks, William Brooks, Lancelot E. Threlkeld, Simon Kemp, and Henry Boyse.
1851 - A duel is fought in the bush, near what is now Centennial Park, Sydney, between Mr Stuart Donaldson and Sir Thomas Mitchell. A shot grazed Mitchell's ear and another pierced Donaldson's hat. The seconds stopped the duel, and the parties left the ground unreconciled.
1860 - A petition sent by Roman Catholic colonists to the South Australian House of Assembly asked for an adequate grant to carry on their educational work and authorisation for the separate education of Catholic children.
1860 - Three hundred members of the South Australian Volunteer Forces were removed from the rolls for being irregular at drill attendances.
1862 - Francis William Lauderdale Adams, Australian writer, is born.
1865 - First sod of Queensland's first railway turned at Ipswich.
1873 - First Hospital Sunday in Melbourne. Hospitals used to be funded on donations and subscriptions from the middle and upper classes. Hospital Sunday involved churches and chapels setting aside for local hospitals the funds collected from a sermon on one Sunday a year.
1874 - Victorian Humane Society founded.
1874 - John Forrest's exploration party reach the overland telegraph line after a journey from Champion Bay. They arrived at Adelaide in November of the same year.
1879 - The Hunter River at West Maitland rises to 27 ½ feet (8.38 metres).
1883 - Charles Rasp, a boundary rider on Mount Gipps sheep station, pegged off the first block, Lease 12, at Broken Hill, New South Wales. With other he pegged off six other blocks, and the Broken Hill Mining Company was later established. This was the foundation of the great mining industry at Broken Hill. To December, 1905, the leases mentioned paid dividends to £11,000,000. In six years the market value of the original seven leases was £1,250,000.
1892 - Queensland Legislative Assembly passed a Bill dividing Queensland into two provinces, Southern and Northern; it was rejected in the Legislative Council.
1894 - Queensland mail steamer, Dorunda, bound for England, wrecked of Portuguese coast.
1895 - The hulk, Gem, sinks at Barrenjoey, New South Wales, and two lives are lost.
1897 - Lord Brassey visited Brisbane in his yacht, the Sunbeam, and was officially entertained by the Government. Lord Thomas Brassey was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century.
1898 - Thomas Joseph Byrnes, Premier of Queensland, dies.
1903 - The barque, Oimara, is wrecked at Morna Point, New South Wales.
1918 - "Hindenburg Line Broken!" That was the terrific news that flashed round the world on September 27, 1918, and which marked the beginning of the end of the great conflict on the Western front. For six weeks beforehand there had been signs that the German resistance was beginning to crack - signs that had received proof on August 8, Germany's "Black Day." Now on this day in 1918, the Advance to Victory was beginning, and the Hindenburg system was breaking under Haig's blows. On this day, Hindenberg and Ludendorff agreed that the situation of their armies was desperate. They told the German Foreign Minister that a request for an armistice was urgent and imperative. The allies had concentrated 1800 guns; the allied troops were massed in overwhelming numbers; Foch was generalissimo and the American troops were pouring in. Last but not least the great defensive system known as the Hindenburg Line was cracking under the terrible attacks made, upon it. The Internal situation in Germany was very bad, and the news that the Allies were breaking through the almost legendary Hindenburg Line was the lost straw. Today in 1918 marked the beginning of the end of WWI for our troops.
1956 - First nuclear weapons test by British at Maralinga
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