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 ...
  • 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. ...