RIC-6430 Primary history (Bk D)

Time line of major Australian and world events (>60 000 BCE – present day)
1900–1999
1901: Lord Hopetoun proclaims the Commonwealth of Australia.
1901: Queen Victoria dies.
1902: The Franchise Act gives non-Indigenous women throughout Australia the right to vote.
1903: Wilbur and Orville Wright make the fi rst powered fl ight.
1905: British New Guinea is transferred to Australian administration.
1909: Canberra chosen as capital city of Australia.
1911: Northern Territory is transferred from South Australian control to the Commonwealth.
1912: Titanic sinks during her maiden voyage from Britain to the United States.
1914: The Panama Canal in Central America opens, connecting the Pacifi c and Atlantic oceans for shipping.
1914–1918: Australian troops fi ght in World War I.
1915: ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli.
1917: Tsar Nicholas II and his family are assassinated in Russia.
1919: Amritsar Massacre takes place in India.
1920: Qantas is formed as an airline.
1920: Australia takes control of German New Guinea.
1923: Tutankhamen’s tomb is opened.
1923: Vegemite is fi rst produced.
1927: The fi rst Federal Parliament is held in Canberra.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is established in Australia.
1929: The Wall Street Crash takes place.
1932: Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
1932–1933: The ‘Bodyline’ cricket tour of Australia takes place.
1933: Western Australia passes a referendum for secession from the Federation of Australia, but it is rejected by the British
Parliament.
1933: Australia Antarctic Territory is established.
1939–1945: Australian troops fi ght in World War II.
1946: The Cold War between the USA and the USSR begins.
1948: The fi rst all-Australian car is produced—the Holden (FX) 48-215.
1950–1953: Australian troops fi ght in the Korean War.
1953: Mount Everest is climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
1956: Melbourne hosts the Olympics.
1957: The Soviet Union launches the fi rst artifi cial satellite, Sputnik.
1959–1975: Australian troops fi ght in the Vietnam War (from 1965).
1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the fi rst man in space.
1969: Apollo 11 space mission—Armstrong and Aldrin land on the moon.
1971: Neville Bonner becomes the fi rst Aboriginal Australian federal Member of Parliament.
1973: The Sydney Opera House opens.
1975: The Khmer Rouge take control of government in Cambodia.
1981: Asian immigration into Australia increases.
1983: Australia wins the America’s Cup.
1986: Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster occurs.
1988: Bicentenary of European settlement in Australia. The new Parliament House opens in Canberra.
1989: Tiananmen Square Massacre occurs in Beijing.
1990: Nelson Mandela is freed from captivity in South Africa after 27 years.
1991: The Cold War offi cially ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
1994: Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister, Yitznak Rabin, is assassinated.
1996: John Howard is elected Prime Minister.
1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed in a car crash.
Head of Yagan is returned to Australia.
1998: World population reaches six billion.
1999: A massive hailstorm hits Sydney, causing $1.7 billion in damage.
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