Aborigines recognised as Australian citizens.
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva (nee Braun), committed suicide with him by ingesting cyanide.
First Computer Built
World War II
'Talkies' or movies with sound are seen in Perth, Western Australia for the first time.
The Great Depression.
Mickey Mouse cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio.
Aborigines banned from entering the centre of Perth, Western Australia.
Radio station 6WF conducts first radio broadcasts in Perth, Western Australia.
Vegemite is first produced.
Gallipoli campaign starts (declared ANZAC Day in 1916)
World War I
On the night of April 14, at 11:40 p.m., The Titanic struck an iceberg; just under three hours later, at 2:20 AM, on April 15, 1912 the ship sank.
Ernest Shackleton\'s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole
Einstein evolved the Special Theory of relativity
In 1904, the first flight lasting more than five minutes took place on November 9. The Flyer II was flown by Wilbur Wright.
Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General.
The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time.
Queen Victoria's death.
The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent.
First motor car arrives in Perth, Western Australia.
H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds.
Olympic Games revived in Athens.
Paddy Hannan finds Gold at Kalgoorlie.
Gold found at Coolgardie by Arthur Bayley.
Leon Bouly invents cinematographic film camera
Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera
A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name "the Commonwealth of Australia" and drafting a constitution.
The cardboard box is invented.
Eiffel Tower completed (to mark centenary of French Revolution)
Celluloid photographic film introduced
Jack the Ripper murders occur in Whitechapel, London.
Dunlop invents pneumatic tyre
First box camera - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film
Emile Berliner patents the gramophone
An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series.
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is published.
Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage later named Coca-Cola
First Australian rules football match played.
Carl Benz builds the \'Motorwagen\', a single-cylinder motor car
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world\'s first motorcycle
John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes
Mark Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Eruption of Krakatoa near Java - 30,000 killed by tidal wave
Statue of Liberty presented to USA by France
Ned Kelly hung at the Melbourne Gaol.
Edison & Swan invent electric lamp
Edison invents microphone and phonograph
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Nikolas August Otto designed the first four-stroke piston engine
Official acceptance of flag of Western Australia.
Transportation of convicts from England to Australia ends. Last ship Hougoumont docked at Fremantle, Western Australia.
Alfred Nobel patented dynamite
Abraham Lincoln assassinated in Ford\'s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
Red Cross established - Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention
First pasteurisation test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard
American Civil War between the Union and seceding Confederacy.
Charles Darwin publishes \'The Origin of Species\'
Neanderthal man first identified.
Victorian gold rush.
Ship Scindian arrives with first convicts for Swan River Colony, numbering 75.
The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
The Irish Potato Famine or the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration, approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland.
The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen.
New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Māori and British.
Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
1902 - 1932 (30 years)