Twenty Third day of the month of October throughout the not-so-many eons of Oz history

1786 - Barron Field, who claimed to be the first poet of Australia *ahem* and was for a number of years an actual judge in New South Wales...

  • 16 October in Oz
    1817 HMSC Mermaid was commissioned on this day ; the Mermaid was the infamous boat in which Phillip Parker King surveyed and chartered the c...
  • 19th October through Oz History
    1800 - Napoleon issued instructions to Baudin and Hamelin, who sailed in the Geographe and the Naturaliste, to explore the east and south ...
  • 18 October Stuff that happened throughout Oz in history
    1790 – HMS Supply returned from Batavia with more supplies for the colony.  1847 The forced exile of Tasmanian Aboriginal People to Wybalenn...