1790 Slightly cracked and half past a pool noodle, John Macarthur rocked up in Sydney for the first time.
His wife, Elizabeth, did a lot for the sheep industry with Merinos.
1836 Snow fell in Sydney all over the shop and scared the two-legged wildlife.
1847 The Right Reverend Charles Perry was consecrated as the first Bishop of Melbourne (29 June).
1848 The Right Reverend Charles Perry was installed in the Cathedral Church of St James.
1880 Bushranger Ned Kelly was caught by the police after throwing a tanty that resulted in a number of people being not alive.
1880 Melbourne became the first city to install a commercial telephone when engineering firm Robison Bros hooked up their Melbourne office to their South Melbourne foundry.
Book-ending the bloody mess called The First World War
1914 The assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia, kicked off 4 years of mayhem.
1919 Billy Hughes signed the Versailles Treaty on behalf of Australia; the Treaty of Versailles officially brought an end to the war.
Sources - I accidentally closed some of the tabs and I'm getting tired, cranky and snarky, so I'll do it tomorrow.
Or something.
