1900 in Australia

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1900
in
Australia

Decades:
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The following lists events that happened during 1900 in Australia.

Incumbents

Note: Australia was not yet federalized in 1900, therefore no prime minister existed.

Governors of the Australian colonies

Events

  • 3 January – Electric lighting is installed on Adelaide streets.
  • 25 January – State Labour politicians meet in Sydney to formally found the federal Labour party.
  • 25 March – The S.S. Glenelg is wrecked off the Victorian coast, resulting in 31 deaths.
  • March to May – Record rainfall and flooding affect the Pilbara and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia
  • 9 May – The Sierra Nevada is wrecked off Portsea, Victoria; 23 lives are lost.
  • 2 July – Snow falls to extremely low levels in New South Wales, being recorded as low as Forbes.
  • 5 July – The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (UK) is passed.
  • 24 July – Neville Howse rescues a fallen ally under heavy fire during the Second Boer War, becoming the first Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • 8 August – The first Australian contingents of naval volunteers set sail for China to assist British and international troops during the Boxer Rebellion.
  • 17 October –
    Queensland
  • 27 October – Notorious murderer Jimmy Governor is apprehended near Wingham, New South Wales.
  • 15 December – Upon his arrival in Australia, the first
    Lord Hopetoun, commits the so-called Hopetoun Blunder
    .

Film

Literature

Births

  • 8 January – Merlyn Myer, Australian philanthropist (d. 1982)
  • 25 January – Harold Raggatt, public servant (died 1968)
  • 29 March – John McEwen, caretaker Prime Minister (1967–1968) (died 1980)
  • 9 October – Frank O'Grady, Australian public servant (d. 1981)[1]
  • 19 October – Bill Ponsford, cricketer (died 1991)
  • 20 October –
    Jack Lindsay
    , writer (died 1990)
  • 3 December –
    Albert Hawke
    , Premier of Western Australia (1953–1959) (died 1989)

Deaths

  • 17 July – Thomas McIlwraith, former Queensland premier (born 1835)
  • 17 November –
    John Ferris
    , Australian cricketer (born 1867)

Population

  • About 4, 000, 000

See also

References

  1. ^ Putnis, Peter, "O'Grady, Francis Phillip (1900–1981)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 21 November 2014