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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...
  • 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...
  • On This Day in Oz History 7 July
    1841 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reached Albany . on an expedition that saw the murder of John Baxter, Eyre's assistant/co-explorer. ...