1824 - "The Australian," the first independent newspaper in Australia, is first issued on this day, by William Charles Wentworth and Dr. Robert Wardell. Its leading article, the first written in Australia, was from the pen of Wentworth. The paper ceased publication on 28 September, 1848.
1824 - The first trial by jury in Australia is held in a Court of Quarter Sessions at Liverpool.
1840 - A great procession of people, said to number 5000, travelled down the new road to Port Adelaide. Some 450 vehicles from four-in-hand barouches to bullock teams and donkey carts, as well as 500-600 equestrians made the journey. At the Port a regatta was held and 450 people sat down to a lavish lunch provided in the warehouses of the South Australian Company who had built the road.
1840 - South Australian Agricultural Society is formed.
1841 - Hanged at the site of the crime, Mendik, for the murder of twelve-year-old John Burtenshaw on the Canning River at Maddington on 16 July 1839.
1851 - First Legislative Council in New South Wales sits.
1853 - Captain Caddell, in the river steamer, Lady Augusta, reached Goolwa, on the Murray River, with the first cargo of wool carried on the river.
1866 - Melbourne Deaf and Dumb Institution opens.
1875 - Fire at Cooktown, Queensland, causes £8,000 worth of damage.
1878 - Time gun established at Maryborough, Queensland.
1879 – Author Miles Franklin born at Talbingo, New South Wales.
1880 - New Foresters' Hall, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, opens.
1889 - The town of Stockton is incorporated.
1904 - Mining disaster at Charters Towers, Queensland, seven men killed.
1914 - Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister, in Albert Square, Brisbane, makes his famous speech, "We will pledge our last man and our last shilling to bring the war to a successful issue."
1923 – Severe floods in Melbourne, two people drown.
1926 - Blasting accident at Ashgrove quarry, Queensland, results in one man killed and two injured.
1926 - Dr. and Miss Mayne offered to Brisbane City Council 200 acres of land at St. Lucia for University site or public park.
1927 - HMAS Adelaide arrives at the British Solomon Islands Protectorate as part of a British punitive expedition. The Royal Australian Navy operated as part of a British empire force in one of the first instances in which Australian forces intervened in regional affairs.
1935 – The Hornibrook Bridge opens, connecting Brisbane and Redcliffe, the 2.8 km bridge is one of the longest timber and girder bridges in Australia.
1951 - Foundation stone laid for Christian Brothers College, Canberra.
1958 – Death of Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer and geologist, aged 76.
1959 – Radio comedian and quiz show host Jack Davey dies.
1959 – Death of Errol Flynn, flamboyant film actor, in Vancouver, British Columbia, aged 50. He shares coffin space with six bottles of whiskey, a parting gift from his drinking buddies.
1968 – The Western Australian town of Meckering suffers an earthquake which registers 6.9 on the Richter scale.
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Sources:
- Australian War Memorial
- South Australian Historians
- This Day in History
- Anniversaries To-Day (1933, October 14). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 8.
- Anniversaries To-Day (1935, October 14). Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (NSW : 1876 - 1954), p. 6.
- On this day (1965, October 14). The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 2.
- To-day's Anniversaries (1931, October 14). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 10 (FIRST EDITION).
- To-day's Anniversaries (1930, October 14). The Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), p. 8.
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