Sydney's first church, of wattle and daub, built 

Charles Sturt born  

Australia's first theatre opened in Sydney, estimated population NSW 4,100

Paul Edmond de Strzelecki born

First record of cricket played in Australia.  Deer first introduced.

John Gould born

Public hangings abolished in Victoria

  Braybrook Hotel opened it's doors

Melbourne Football Club was formed. Carlton Brewery founded. Terracotta roofing tiles manufactured in Melbourne to a patent awarded to Charles Curet.

Arthur Streeton and Henry Lawson were born. 

 Toohey's Brewery established in Sydney.

  William Charles Wentworth died.

Caroline Chisholm and John Fairfax died. 

Will Dyson, John Flynn (Flynn of the Inland) and Elizabeth Kenny were born.

Ned Kelly hanged.

Wirth's Circus was formed. Electric light was installed in Theatre Royal, Sydney.

 Douglas Mawson and Percy Grainger were born. 

Thomas Bushell founded his tea business in Brisbane. Work began on the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne.

Prince Henry's Hospital  Melbourne established. First Melbourne tram. John Curtin, G.J. Coles, Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, Keith Murdoch and J.B. Chifley were born. 

The Princess Theatre opened in Melbourne. Banjo Paterson's first poem appeared in the Bulletin. 

Lawrence Hargrave invents a rotary aeroplane engine. Banjo Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow  appeared in the Bulletin.  Population in the Australian colonies reached 3 million. Peter Lalor died.

Queen's Bridge, Melbourne opened. The blue-speckle cattle dog (blue heeler) established as a pure breed. 

Sarah Bernhardt and Rudyard Kipling visited Melbourne.  Henry Lawson's poem Freedom's on the Wallaby appears in the Brisbane Worker. Henry Vande Sluice (Roy Rene) was born.  

Gladys Moncrieff, Bert Hinkler and John Simpson Kirkpatrick (Simpson & his donkey) were born. The first milking machines installed at Bodalla, NSW. 

Ethel Turner's Seven Little Australians was published. Robert Gordon Menzies was born.  

Les Darcy was born. The word cobber first appeared in print.

Queen Victoria Victoria Memorial Hospital for Women & Children. Tivoli Theatre Melbourne opened. Sir Henry Parkes died. Arthur Calwell was born. 

Walter Lindrum was born.  Rosella Preserving & Manufacturing Co. makes it's first tomato sauce. The book by Steel Rudd On Our Selection is published.  Nevil Shute Norway, Ian Clunies Ross and William Dobell are born.

Rosella made it's first Tomato Sauce.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career. Ping Pong becomes the game of the moment.

George Adams died.

Work on Flinders Street Station. 

Natural gas used to light the streets of Roma, Queensland (supply runs out after 10 days). World's first life saving club founded in Sydney (Bondi). Driving Licence first introduced. William Farrer died. 

Basic Wage established. Frederick Peters established Peters' American Delicacy Co. Ltd. to make ice-cream. Marjorie Lawrence was born. 

Mrs Aeneas Gunn wrote We of the Never Never. Chloe painting goes on display at Young & Jackson's hotel, Melbourne. William McMahon, Henry Bolte, Harold Holt and Donald Bradman were born. 

Bush Nursing Service established. Swinburne Institute of Technology, Melbourne established. R.M. (Reg) Ansett, John Goffage (Chips Rafferty) and Robert Helpman were born

Sidney Myer opened a drapery business in Melbourne. Johannes (Joh) Bjelki-Petersen and John Gorton were born.

Fibrous plaster sheets first imported to Australia. Work began on Taronga Park Zoo.

Australia's first luxury cinema, the Majestic opened in Melbourne. Cost of living index was first compiled. The Commonwealth Maternity Allowance £5 per child introduced. 

Russell Drysdale was born. 

John Kerr & J.F. (Jim) Cairns were born. First official airmail service.

Aspro trademark registered. Manning Clark and B.A. (Bob) Santamaria were born.

Death of Lawrence Hargrave and E. Phillips Fox.

Daylight saving introduced to Australia (unpopular and not reintroduced until WWII).

Holden Motor Body Builders established a factory in Adelaide.  Frank Hardy and Sydney Nolan were born. Les Darcy and Frederick McCubbin died. 

May Gibbs wrote Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. Norman Lindsay wrote The Magic Pudding.

The Returned Services League Sunshine Branch was formed. During the worldwide influenza epidemic,the Sunshine Technical School was turned into a temporary hospital.

Influenza epidemic causes nearly 12,000 deaths. Alfred Deakin died. Nancy Fotheringham Cato born. The Potts cartoon strip began.

Mrs George McKay provided the equipment to start the Sunshine Scout Troop.

David Fletcher Jones established his tailoring company in Warrnambool. A.C. Howard first patents a rotary hoe. Sir Edmund Barton died. Arthur Boyd was born.

Work on Yallourn Power Station began. John Lysaght began producing galvanised sheet steel. Australia's first Rotary club founded. The Archibald Prize is first awarded. Ginger Meggs comic strip began.

Who's Who in Australia was first published. The Sun News-Pictorial newspaper established. First Legacy club founded. Along the Road to Gundagai song published.

Neville Bonner was born. Henry Lawson died. 

Work began on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The first electric lifts in Australia were installed in the railway building at Spencer Street. Vegemite and the Violet Crumble Bar were created.

The Sunshine Advocate newspaper was the first registered local newspaper in the district. The formation of the Sunshine Golf Club. 

The population of Australia reached 6 million. Beginnings of Aeroplane Jelly. Don Chipp was born. 

1926

 The biggest fire in the district, at John Darling Flour Mill.

1926

First Miss Australia competition. Jack Brabham, Don Dunstan, Neville Wran, Joan Sutherland and William (Billy) Snedden were born. 

Canberra was declared the new capital of Australia. David Kirkpatrick (Slim Dusty) was born. 

The first traffic lights in Australia were installed at the corner of Collins & Swanson Streets, Melbourne. Speedo swimsuits first produced. Cadbury chocolate first produced at Claremont, Tasmania. The Flying Doctor Service began.

Pro Hart was born. R.J.L. Hawke (Bob) and J.D. (Doug) Anthony were born. 

Rolf Harris, Malcolm Fraser and Richie Benaud were born. Sales tax was introduced.

The Depression Years...  

F.W Thring's Diggers was shown (Australia's first commercially successful talking film). Rupert Murdoch and John Cain were born. Dame Nellie Melba, Tom Roberts and Sir John Monash died. 

The Dog on the Tuckerbox Pioneer Memorial was unveiled. Australian Broadcasting Commission began. Ion L. Idriess wrote Flynn of the Inland. The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened. Phar Lap died in California. 

W.G. (Bill) Snedden was born. D. Wall wrote Blinky Bill. Ben Bowyang comic strip began.

  Graham Kennedy, Barry Humphries and Ken Rosewall were born. Sidney Myer died. 

Herbert Sachse of the Esplanade Hotel in Perth created the Pavlova. R.G. Whitehead develops Tarzan's Grip glue. Johnny O'Keefe and Thomas Keneally were born.

Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) and Sir Charles Kingsford Smith died. 

Ansett Airways began. Ron Barassi & Charles Perkins were born. 

The Commonwealth basic wage was £3 15s. Dad & Dave radio serial began.

Walter Burley Griffin died. Colleen McCullough, Robert Holmes á Court, Dawn Fraser and Kerry Packer were born.  

Will Dyson and C.J. Dennis died. Herb Elliott, Betty Cuthbert, Alan Bond, Rod Laver and Frank Moorhouse were born. 

When war broke out the full resources of McKay Massey Harris works were placed at the disposal of the Commonwealth.

Outbreak of WWII. Lux Radio Theatre began. Sliced bread introduced by Sunshine Bakeries, Newtown, Sydney. Population reaches 7 million. Birth of Germaine Greer, Andrew Peacock, Brett Whiteley, Phillip Adams, John Howard and Fred Schepisi.

Death of J.A. Lyons. 

Alex Gurney's Bluey & Curley comic strip begins publication. Marilyn Jones was born. 

Norman Gregg links defects in new-born babies with rubella infection in their mothers during pregnancy. A.B. (Banjo) Paterson died. 

The Village Glee Club (radio program) began. Ita Buttrose and David Williamson born. 

Commonwealth Serum Laboratories began producing penicillin in commercial quantities for civilian use. Death of Sir Arthur Streeton and William Lister Lister.

Birth of Roger Woodward and Ian Chappell. 

Paul Keating, R.H. (Dick) Smith and John Newcombe were born. 

WWII ended. After the war, rationing of food and clothing continued in Australia until 1949. The Sydney-Hobart yacht race was held for the first time.

Johnny Famechon was born. John Curtin Died.

Hills Hoist began in Adelaide. The film The Overlanders with Chips Rafferty was shown. Miles Franklin wrote My Career Goes Bung. Death of Henry Handel Richardson (Mrs Ethel Robertson). 

Employees under federal awards begin working a 40-hour week. Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme established. The cost of a Holden Sedan was £760. National anti-tuberculosis campaign began. Birth of Robyn Archer, Lionel Rose, Olivia Newton-John and Greg Chappel. Death of Sir Isaac Isaacs. 

Poliomyelitis epidemic in most states. Dennis Lillee was born. 

Sunshine proclaimed a City.  The Sunshine RSL clubrooms opened. 

Myxomatosis successfully released in the Murray Valley. Frank Hardy wrote Power without Glory and Nevil Shute wrote A Town Like Alice.

F.G. McEncroe of Bendigo creates the Chiko Roll. Tenor Harold Blair makes an Australian Tour for the ABC. Dymphna Cusack and Florence James wrote Come in Spinner. More than 1,500 cases and 121 deaths from poliomyelitis reported in NSW. 

Paid sick leave and long-service leave introduced in NSW. Waverley Council in Sydney bans the bikini swimsuit on its beaches.  John Flynn (Flynn of the Inland), Sir Thomas Blamey and J.B. Chifley died. Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) and Jan Stephenson born.

Mervyn Victor Richardson invents the Victa rotary lawnmower. Commonwealth basic wage £11 11s. 

Fluoridation of water supply first introduced. CSIRO discovers an anti-shrink process for wool. Death J.H. Scullin and John Wren. 

Queen Elizabeth (the first reigning monarch) visited Australia. John Landy broke two world records. Miles Franklin and Roy Rene (Mo) died. 

Massey Ferguson bought McKay Massey Harris. 

Business in the area were  Rubbertex (Aust) P/L, Alliance Printing Works, Peerless Plaster Co and Kreglinger & Fernau P/L to name a few.

Alan Marshall wrote I Can Jump Puddles and D'Arcy Niland wrote The Shiralee. 

Death penalty abolished NSW. 

The Olympics held in Melbourne. Poker machines legalised in NSW. Television introduced to Australia. Woman's Day magazine began. Sir Frank Beaurepaire died. 

Shane Gould was born. 

The Argus ceases publication. Slim Dusty's A Pub With No Beer awarded Australia's first gold record. Bob Dyer's quiz show Pick a Box begins on television. Nino Culotta (John O'Grady) wrote They're a Weird Mob and Nevil Shute wrote On the Beach. Robert de Castella was born. 

Bandstand hosted by Brian Henderson began on television. Three weeks annual leave granted to all employees under NSW awards. Legislation enacted in NSW to provide for equal pay for "work of the same or like nature and of equal value" performed by men and women (female wage to be increased progressively). 

Sir Douglas Mawson died. 

Work begins on the Sydney Opera House. Jack Brabham wins the world motor-racing championship. Population reaches 10 million. 

Death of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, Albert Namatjira, Jack Davey and Errol Flynn.