1786 - Richard Johnson, having been appointed first chaplain to the New South Wales settlement, commences his duties by visiting the hulks which contained the men going to the new colony.
1817 - Hanged at Sydney, John Walker and Ralph Pearson, for the murder of John Suddis at Wilberforce.
1825 - Moreton Bay Settlement officially renamed Brisbane.
1835 – Governor Bourke implemented the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could an individual person acquire it, other than through distribution by the Crown.
1835 - John Pascoe Fawkner, arrives on the present site of Melbourne and joins the members of his party, who had preceded him there in the schooner Enterprise on 31 August. Before the end of the year he had opened "a store and grog shop" which later became the first inn at the settlement.
1840 - The first supplies from Brisbane to the Darling Downs are taken over Cunningham's Gap by bullock dray.
1843 - The opening of the first parliament of South Australia takes place in the Legislative Council building on North Terrace. This was the first permanent site of the parliament and the chamber with the gallery could hold about 200 people. The Legislative Council was made up of seven members, three officials and four nominees, under the presidency of the Governor, Sir George Grey.
1844 - On Sturt's final attempt to find the inland sea he still believes exists, he reaches Menindee before heading northwest.
1848 - First census of Western Australia is taken.
1849 - The Sydney Railway and Tramway Company is incorporated by an Act of Parliament.
1861 - No Man's Land, a strip of territory of 80,000 acres, between West Australia and South Australia, is added to South Australian territory.
1865 - Cleveland Bay, Queensland, is declared a port of entry, and the town of Townsville is founded by Police Magistrate James Gordon.
1874 - The sovereignty of the Fiji Islands was ceded by King Thakambau to Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of New South Wales, who was acting for the British Crown.
1878 - Tin ore is discovered at Upper Barron River, Queensland.
1880 – Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappeared on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
1881 - The West Maitland Post Office, at the corner of High and Bourke-streets, is opened for public business.
1891 - Australian bushranger Harry Power, mentor to a young Ned Kelly, dies from drowning in the Murray River.
1892 – Jackie Howe shears a total of 321 sheep in 7 hours and 40 minutes at Blackall, Queensland, a record for hand shears that still stands.
1892 - The famous arbitration case, Robb versus the Commissioner for Railways, claiming £262,311, in connection with the Cairns railway, is opened. It was completed in the following June, Robb being awarded £20,807.
1898 - The railway line from Wyandra to Cunnamulla, in Queensland, is opened.
1915 – Twenty-six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the "Cooee March"; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits
1917 - Australian divisions continued to attack in the third battle of Ypres. The attack on Poelcappelle, launched amid heavy rain, was to cost 1250 casualties for no gain of ground.
1917 - Foundation stone of Church of England Grammar School, East Brisbane, is laid.
1919 - The residents of Port Darwin, following a meeting of the Advisory Council, held a meeting and demanded the resignations of the Director (Mr. Carey), Judge Bevan, and the Government Secretary (Mr. Evans). The resignations were not accepted by the Minister (Mr. Glynn), and another meeting demanded that the three officials leave Port Darwin on the night of the meeting. They left.
1923 – Telephone link between Sydney and Brisbane officially opened.
1924 – Commonwealth Electoral Act was enacted making voting in federal elections compulsory.
1924 – James Clavell, novelist, screenwriter, and World War II POW, was born in Sydney.
1925 - New bitumenised road to Redcliffe, Queensland, opens for traffic.
1931 - Sir Bertram Mackennal, Australian sculptor, dies.
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Sources:
- Australian War Memorial
- South Australian Historians
- This Day in History
- Anniversaries To-Day (1933, October 10). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
- Anniversaries To-Day (1934, October 10). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
- To-day's Yesterdays (1934, October 10). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 12.
- To-Day's Anniversaries (1931, October 10). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 8 (FIRST EDITION).
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