"\BMay 05, \J1788\j\b - \IScarborough, \ICharlotte,\b\i and \ILady Penrhyn\b\i are discharged and leave for England via China."
"\BMay 29, \J1788\j\b - Aborigines kill two convicts at Rushcutters Bay. (Phillip leads a punitive expedition against them on 31st.)"
"\BMay 22, \J1788\j\b - William Grant Broughton born (-\J\J1853\j\j)."
"\BMay 08, \J1789\j\b - \ISirius\b\i arrives back at Port Jackson with supplies from the Cape, having completed a voyage round the world."
"\BMay 13, \J1789\j\b - Convict John Caesarù'Black Caesar'ùescapes to the bush with arms and ammunition. (Recaptured 6 June.)"
"\BMay 28, \J1789\j\b - Bligh lands on and names (29th) Restoration Is., off the east coast of Cape York Peninsula, then sails on through the Barrier Reef and Torres Strait."
"\BMay 01, \J1789\j\b - George Fife Angas born (-\J1879\j)."
"\BMay 01, \J1790\j\b - James Hurtle Fisher born (-\J1875\j)."
"\BMay 24, \J1791\j\b - Capt. Watkin Tench and Lt William Dawes set out from Prospect Hill on an expedition that establishes the Hawkesbury and Nepean as the one river."
"\BMay 02, \J1793\j\b - Mary Bryant granted an unconditional pardon in England after the intercession of James Boswell."
"\BMay 18, \J1794\j\b - Yemmerrawannie dies in England."
"\BMay 11, \J1796\j\b - \IBritannia\b\i (Raven) returns from Calcutta with provisions."
"\BMay 15, \J1797\j\b - Three survivors of the \ISydney Cove\b\i are picked up by fishermen about 22 km south of Botany Bay; they report finding coal further south and the probable existence of a strait between the mainland and Van Diemen's Land."
"\BMay 27, \J1797\j\b - \IBritannia\b\i (Thomas Dennott) arrives at Port Jackson with 177 Irish convicts, 11 deaths having occurred on the voyage from harsh treatment."
"\BMay 30, \J1797\j\b - Gov. Hunter sends the schooner \IFrancis\b\i and longboat \IEliza\b\i to the stranded \ISydney Cove.\b\i (Arrive Preservation Is. 11 June.)"
"\BMay 08, \J1797\j\b - John Septimus Roe born (-\J1878\j)."
"\BMay 14, \J1798\j\b - \INautilus\b\i (Charles Bishop) arrives at Port Jackson from a trading cruise in the Pacific carrying missionaries of the London Missionary Society from Tahiti, including Rowland Hassall."
"\BMay 18, \J1798\j\b - Transport \IBarwell\b\i arrives at Port Jackson with 287 convicts, including the lawyer/poet Michael Massey Robinson; passengers include Richard Dore."
"\BMay 03, \J1799\j\b - Storeship \IBuffalo\b\i (W. Raven) arrives at Port Jackson as a replacement for HMS \ISupply."
"\BMay 16, \J1799\j\b - D'Arcy Wentworth becomes surgeon at Parramatta."
"\BMay 29, \J1799\j\b - \INautilus\b\i (Bishop) sails for England via China with Bass aboard."
"\BMay 01, \J1801\j\b - King orders Aborigines to be driven out of Parramatta, Prospect, and Georges River districts."
"\BMay 02, \J1801\j\b - US ship \IMissouri\b\i arrives at Port Jackson; King refuses to allow the landing of a cargo of spirits."
"\BMay 30, \J1801\j\b - French mariner Nicolas Baudin, with the ships \ILe GΘographe\b\i and \ILe Naturaliste\b\i (Emmanuel Hamelin), arrives at Geographe Bay, WA, on a voyage of scientific discovery. (Ships there part company.)"
"\BMay 03, \J1804\j\b - Aborigines approach Risdon Cove settlement and are fired upon; 50 killedùthe first casualties in Tasmania's 'Black War'."
"\BMay 07, \J1804\j\b - \ICoromandel\b\i arrives at Port Jackson with 200 convicts and a consignment of smallpox vaccine."
"\BMay 08, \J1804\j\b - Bowen relinquishes command at the Derwent to Collins."
"\BMay 20, \J1804\j\b - Last of the Sorrento settlement leave Port Phillip for the Derwent."
"\BMay 03, \J1804\j\b - William Denison born (-\J1871\j)."
"\BMay 24, \J1805\j\b - Capt. William Bligh commissioned in London as Governor of NSW."
"\BMay 26, \J1806\j\b - John Ridley born (-\J1877\j)."
"\BMay 02, \J1807\j\b - Robert Campbell is appointed Naval Officer in place of Harris."
"\BMay 15, \J1808\j\b - Brig \IHarrington\b\i seized by 50 convicts, led by Robert Stewart, in Farm Cove and sailed for the Philippines. (Captured three months later and Stewart hanged in Sydney in August.)"
"\BMay 24, \J1808\j\b - Floods on the Hawkesbury and Georges rivers (to 27th)."
"\BMay 28, \J1808\j\b - Anthony Fenn Kemp appointed acting Judge-Advocate."
"\BMay 0-, \J1808\j\b - Caroline Jones (Caroline Chisholm) born (-\J1877\j)."
"\BMay 08, \J1809\j\b - Lt-Col. Lachlan Macquarie officially appointed Governor of NSW."
"\BMay 21, \J1809\j\b - Lt-Gov. David Collins makes public in Hobart a proclamation by Paterson forbidding communication with Bligh."
"\BMay 22, \J1809\j\b - Macquarie leaves England in HMS \IDromedary\b\i escorted by HMS \IHindostan;\i with him is Ellis Bent, to become Judge-Advocate (appointed 6 May); \IHindostan\b\i carries Lt-Col. Maurice O'Connell with headquarters of Macquarie's own regiment, the 73rd, which is to replace the NSW Corps."
"\BMay 25, \J1809\j\b - Hawkesbury River in flood (to 27th), rising to a higher level than the great flood of Mar. \J1806\j."
"\BMay 08, \J1810\j\b - Lt-Col. Maurice O'Connell marries Bligh's widowed daughter, Mary Putland."
"\BMay 12, \J1810\j\b - Bligh sails for England in HMS \IHindostan,\b\i accompanied by HMS \IDromedary\b\i and \IPorpoise;\b\i aboard are officers (including William Paterson) and other ranks of the NSW Corps, as well as Richard Atkins and William Gore as Bligh's witnesses at the court martial of George Johnston."
"\BMay 08, \J1813\j\b - New South Wales Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Benevolence in these Territories and Neighbouring Islands established at a meeting chaired by Edward Smith Hall. (Reorganised as the Benevolent Society of NSW on 6 May \J1818\j.)"
"\BMay 11, \J1813\j\b - Gregory Blaxland, Lt William Lawson, and W. C. Wentworth set out on an expedition to find a way across the Blue Mountains."
"\BMay 15, \J1813\j\b - Gov. Macquarie issues an order restricting Sunday trading."
"\BMay 28, \J1813\j\b - Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth reach Mount York and (31st) arrive at Mount Blaxland, beyond the Cox River, where they turn back, having found a way across the mountains and sighted the plains beyond."
"\BMay 28, \J1813\j\b - û First Sunday school in Australia established by Thomas Hassall on the Parramatta property of his father, Rowland Hassall."
"\BMay 14, \J1814\j\b - First issue of the fortnightly \IVan Diemen's Land Gazette and General Advertiser\i\b appears. (Ceases publication, 24 Sept.)"
"\BMay 14, \J1814\j\b - Macquarie offers an amnesty to bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land who surrender before 1 Dec."
"\BMay 20, \J1814\j\b - \IThree Bees\i\b (arr. 6 May with 210 convicts) catches fire in Sydney Cove and explodes, some shot landing in Bridge Street."
"\BMay 08, \J1814\j\b - Francis Grose died (55?)."
"\BMay 01, \J1815\j\b - Jeffery Bent opens the Supreme Court and swears in William Broughton and Alexander Riley, Macquarie's nominees, as magistrates."
"\BMay 05, \J1815\j\b - Jeffery Bent rejects applications from emancipist attorneys George Crossley and Edward Eagar to appear before the Supreme Court and subsequently adjourns the court until a ruling can be obtained from the UK government on the matter."
"\BMay 07, \J1815\j\b - Macquarie selects the site of and names Bathurst."
"\BMay 08, \J1815\j\b - First sitting of the Governor's Court, presided over by Judge-Advocate Ellis Bent and two assistants, who (15th) refuse to permit emancipist attorneys to appear before the court."
"\BMay 13, \J1815\j\b - G. W. Evans begins an exploring trip south from Bathurst and (25th) discovers the Lachlan River."
"\BMay 27, \J1815\j\b - Henry Parkes born (-\J1896\j)."
"\BMay 18, \J1817\j\b - J. H. Bent leaves Sydney to return to England."
"\BMay 15, \J1818\j\b - Father Jeremiah O'Flynn arrested and gaoled and (20th) deported because he lacked credentials."
"\BMay 20, \J1818\j\b - King names Bathurst Is. and (21st) Melville Is."
"\BMay 28, \J1818\j\b - John Oxley sets out from Bathurst with a party including G. W. Evans to explore along the Macquarie River."
"\BMay 29, \J1818\j\b - First regular mail service between Hobart and Launceston begins, a road having been recently built between the towns."
"\BMay 21, \J1818\j\b - S. T. Gill born (-\J1880\j)."
"\BMay 08, \J1819\j\b - P. P. King in the \IMermaid\b\i leaves Port Jackson to resume his survey of the north-west coast of Australia. (Returns, 12 Jan. \J1820\j.)"
"\BMay 22, \J1819\j\b - Headquarters at Port Dalrymple transferred from Launceston to George Town."
"\BMay 13, \J1819\j\b - Margaret Catchpole died (57)."
"\BMay 03, \J1820\j\b - John Joseph Therry and Philip Conolly, the first Catholic priests officially appointed to Australia, arrive at Port Jackson in the convict transport \IJanus."
"\BMay 19, \J1820\j\b - \IVostok\b\i and \IMirnyi\b\i leave for the Antarctic."
"\BMay 14, \J1820\j\b - James Martin born (-\J1886\j)."
"\BMay 01, \J1821\j\b - Australia's first periodical, the \IAustralian Magazine,\b\i begins publication."
"\BMay 26, \J1821\j\b - P. P. King in the brig \IBathurst\b\i leaves on his final survey voyage to the west coast."
"\BMay 30, \J1821\j\b - Macquarie, on a visit to Van Diemen's Land, selects the site of Perth, then Campbell Town (31 May), Ross (2 June), Oatlands (3 June) and Brighton (4 June)."
"\BMay 11, \J1821\j\b - George Howe died (51?)."
"\BMay 06, \J1822\j\b - Commissioner Bigge's first report, 'On the State of the Colony of NSW' (i.e., the convict system), submitted to Lord Bathurst."
"\BMay 12, \J1823\j\b - Samuel Marsden comes before magistrate H. G. Douglass on a charge of having allowed his assigned servant to be at large contrary to regulations and is fined but refuses to pay. (Fine eventually remitted.)"
"\BMay 22, \J1823\j\b - Capt. Mark Currie, accompanied by Maj. John Ovens, explores beyond Lake George to the upper Murrumbidgee (to 4 June) and discovers the Monaro district."
"\BMay 23, \J1823\j\b - Rev. John Dunmore Lang arrives in Sydney in the \IBrixton."
"\BMay 02, \J1823\j\b - Thomas Davey died (64?)."
"\BMay 10, \J1824\j\b - Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land opened; John Lewes Pedder Chief Justice; Joseph Tice Gellibrand Attorney-General."
"\BMay 12, \J1824\j\b - Meeting held in London to form the Van Diemen's Land Co., with Edward Curr as secretary."
"\BMay 12, \J1824\j\b - Col. George Arthur arrives in Hobart and (14th) replaces William Sorell as Lt-Governor of Van Diemen's Land."
"\BMay 17, \J1824\j\b - New Charter of Justice proclaimed in Sydney; Francis Forbes installed as Chief Justice, Saxe Bannister as Attorney-General."
"\BMay 19, \J1825\j\b - F. N. Rossi succeeds D'Arcy Wentworth as Superintendent of Police in NSW."
"\BMay 20, \J1825\j\b - Andrew Bent prosecuted for libelling Gov. Arthur in the \IHobart Town\b \IGazette.\b\i (Subsequently fined and gaoled.)"
"\BMay 19, \J1826\j\b - Edward Smith Hall's \IMonitor\b\i newspaper begins publication in Sydney."
"\BMay 06, \J1826\j\b - George Dalrymple born (-\J1876\j)."
"\BMay 16, \J1826\j\b - Joseph Holt died (69?)."
"\BMay 12, \J1827\j\b - Cunningham crosses the Namoi River and discovers the Gwydir (21st), the Macintyre, and the Dumaresq (28th) rivers."
"\BMay 18, \J1827\j\b - Lt Nathaniel Lowe arraigned before the Supreme Court for the murder of an Aboriginal while in custody. (Subsequently acquitted.)"
"\BMay 23, \J1827\j\b - Capt. Charles Sturt arrives in Sydney on the transport \IMariner."
"\BMay 28, \J1828\j\b - T. L. Mitchell becomes Surveyor-General of NSW following the death of John Oxley."
"\BMay 09, \J1828\j\b - Nicholas Chevalier born (-\J1902\j)."
"\BMay 26, \J1828\j\b - John Oxley died (42)."
"\BMay 02, \J1829\j\b - Capt. Charles Fremantle of HMS \IChallenger\b\i lands at the site of Fremantle and takes formal possession of the western third of Australia (i.e., all of the mainland not included in NSW)."
"\BMay 31, \J1829\j\b - Capt. (later Sir) James Stirling in HMS \IParmelia\b\i arrives at Cockburn Sound to form a settlement on the Swan River. (Forms temporary settlement on Garden Is., 7 June.)"
"\BMay 23, \J1829\j\b - George Caley died (58)."
"\BMay 14, \J1831\j\b - \ISophia Jane\i\b, the first steamship to operate in Australian waters, arrives at Port Jackson from UK under sail. (Begins SydneyûNewcastle service, 13 June.)"
"\BMay 28, \J1831\j\b - Agricultural Society formed in Perth."
"\BMay 31, \J1831\j\b - Robert Hoddle's plan for Berrima, NSW, approved."
"\BMay 01, \J1833\j\b - Yagan and Midgegoroo proclaimed outlaws for killing two whites at the Canning, WA, in revenge for hostile acts towards Aborigines."
"\BMay 07, \J1833\j\b - Watkin Tench died (74?)."
"\BMay 05, \J1834\j\b - NSW Temperance Society holds its first meeting in Sydney (Francis Forbes chairman)."
"\BMay 12, \J1835\j\b - John Batman in the \IRebecca\b\i sails from Launceston for Port Phillip to acquire land for the nascent Port Phillip Association."
"\BMay 14, \J1835\j\b - Convict ship \INeva\b\i wrecked off King Is. with the loss of 225 lives; 22 survive."
"\BMay 25, \J1835\j\b - Mitchell reaches the junction of the Bogan and Darling rivers and (29th) completes the building of a stockade he names Fort Bourke."
"\BMay 28, \J1835\j\b - John Hindmarsh appointed Governor of SA."
"\BMay 29, \J1835\j\b - Australian Patriotic Association formed in Sydney to obtain representative government for NSW (Sir John Jamison president, W. C. Wentworth vice-president)."
"\BMay 29, \J1835\j\b - Batman arrives at Port Phillip and (6 June) makes a treaty with the Aborigines to acquire 242,800 hectares of land near the site of Melbourne. (Leaves party at Indented Head and returns to Launceston.)"
"\BMay 17, \J1835\j\b - Thomas McIlwraith born (-\J1900\j)."
"\BMay 21, \J1836\j\b - Brig \IStirling Castle\b\i wrecked on Swain Reefs; Capt. James Fraser, his wife, Eliza, and crew take to the boats and eventually reach Great Sandy (now Fraser) Is."
"\BMay 27, \J1836\j\b - Mitchell's party ambush about 180 Aborigines on the Murray near present-day Euston, killing eight and wounding many others."
"\BMay 31, \J1836\j\b - Mitchell examines the junction of the Murray and Darling (to 2 June)."
"\BMay 20, \J1837\j\b - Prison reformer Alexander Maconochie submits to Franklin a new system for the treatment of convicts."
"\BMay 12, \J1838\j\b - Samuel Marsden died (73)."
"\BMay 01, \J1839\j\b - E. J. Eyre explores to the north of Adelaide (to 25 June) and discovers Lake Torrens. (Returns, 29 June.)"
"\BMay 20, \J1839\j\b - Moreton Bay penal settlement closes down."
"\BMay 20, \J1839\j\b - Angus McMillan begins his first exploration of Gippsland. (Reaches site of Omeo, 11 June.)"
"\BMay 06, \J1839\j\b - John Batman died (38)."
"\BMay 05, \J1840\j\b - Public meeting in Melbourne to petition for separation from NSW."
"\BMay 12, \J1840\j\b - Strzelecki and party reach Westernport. (Arrive Melbourne 28 May.)"
"\BMay 21, \J1840\j\b - Hobson proclaims British sovereignty over all of NZ."
"\BMay 22, \J1840\j\b - Transportation of convicts to NSW abolished by order in council (effective from 1 Aug.)."
"\BMay 31, \J1840\j\b - Surveyor G. C. Stapylton and assistant killed by Aborigines near the McPherson Range, Queensland."
"\BMay 03, \J1841\j\b - New Zealand proclaimed a colony independent of NSW from 1 July."
"\BMay 15, \J1841\j\b - Capt. George Grey replaces George Gawler as Governor of SA."
"\BMay 24, \J1841\j\b - Gas lighting in Sydney (the first gas lighting scheme in Australia) turned on during celebrations for Queen Victoria's birthday."
"\BMay 01, \J1843\j\b - Rush on Sydney Savings Bank."
"\BMay 19, \J1845\j\b - Copper discovered at Burra Burra, SA."
"\BMay 23, \J1845\j\b - Leichhardt reaches the Lynd River, his first encounter with a stream flowing into the Gulf of Carpentaria."
"\BMay 24, \J1845\j\b - \IMary\b\i wrecked off Flinders Is., Bass Strait, with the loss of 17 lives."
"\BMay 04, \J1847\j\b - Earl Grey orders the closing of the convict establishment in NSW and the transfer of the remaining convicts to Tas."
"\BMay 06, \J1847\j\b - Large anti-transportation meeting in Hobart petitions the Queen for abolition."
"\BMay 09, \J1850\j\b - Horsham (Vic.) notified as a village site."
"\BMay 12, \J1850\j\b - F. W. Holder born (û \J1909\j)."
"\BMay 15, \J1851\j\b - \ISydney Morning Herald\i\b carries news of gold discovery; rush to the Ophir goldfield begins."
"\BMay 22, \J1851\j\b - Proclamation issued in NSW declaring all gold found on private or Crown land to be the property of the Crown; licence to dig required after 1 June (fee 30s per month)."
"\BMay 26, \J1851\j\b - Hamilton (Vic.) notified as a town site."
"\BMay 09, \J1852\j\b - Schooner \IFavourite\i\b leaves Melbourne for Sydney and is lost with all hands (13 passengers, 8 crew)."
"\BMay 24, \J1852\j\b - Port Augusta, SA, named by exploring party under A. L. Elder and J. Grainger in the government yacht \IYatala.\i\b (First land sales in \J1854\j.)"
"\BMay 07, \J1853\j\b - Operative Stonemasons' Society formed in Sydney."
"\BMay 15, \J1853\j\b - \IMonumental City\i\b, the first screw steamer to cross the Pacific, runs aground near Gabo Is., Vic., with a loss of 33 lives."
"\BMay 20, \J1853\j\b - Select committee chaired by W. C. Wentworth appointed by the NSW Legislative Council to draft a new constitution."
"\BMay 26, \J1853\j\b - \ISt Vincent\i\b, the last convict transport to Tas., arrives at Hobart."
"\BMay 31, \J1853\j\b - Ship \ISea\i\b wrecked near Point Nepean when leaving Port Phillip; 16 lives lost."
"\BMay 05, \J1854\j\b - C. J. La Trobe relinquishes his post as Lt-Governor of Vic. and next day leaves the colony."
"\BMay 18, \J1854\j\b - Horse-drawn railway opened between Goolwa and Port Elliot, SA."
"\BMay 21, \J1854\j\b - \IBrahmin\i\b wrecked on King Is; 15 lives lost."
"\BMay 01, \J1855\j\b - Coalminers begin an unsuccessful ten-week strike at the Australian Agricultural Co.'s mines at Newcastle."
"\BMay 01, \J1855\j\b - Tas. Constitution Act assented to in UK."
"\BMay 14, \J1855\j\b - Branch of the Royal Mint opened in the south wing of the Rum Hospital, Sydney (to coin sovereigns and half-sovereigns)."
"\BMay 30, \J1855\j\b - Mary Reibey died (78)."
"\BMay 01, \J1856\j\b - Victorian Railways established, the government having taken over the privately owned Melbourne, Mt Alexander and Murray River Railway Co."
"\BMay 02, \J1856\j\b - Lismore, NSW, gazetted as a village. (First land sales Apr. \J1858\j.)"
"\BMay 22, \J1856\j\b - First representative parliament of NSW assembles."
"\BMay 31, \J1856\j\b - Vic.'s first warship, the steam sloop \IVictoria\i\b, arrives at Port Phillip from Britain."
"\BMay 12, \J1857\j\b - F. V. Smith becomes the fourth Tas. Premier in less than a year."
"\BMay 12, \J1857\j\b - û Chinese driven off the Ararat, Vic., goldfield."
"\BMay 09, \J1857\j\b - Sidney Kidman born (û \J1935\j)."
"\BMay 10, \J1857\j\b - John Busby died (91?)."
"\BMay 14, \J1858\j\b - J. M. Stuart and a companion set out to follow up Babbage's expedition into country west of Lake Torrens."
"\BMay 14, \J1858\j\b - û Australia's first Agent-General in London appointedùG. S. Walters (SA)."
"\BMay 09, \J1860\j\b - Thomas Reynolds replaces R. D. Hanson as Premier of SA."
"\BMay 22, \J1860\j\b - First Qld parliament meets. (Officially opened 29th.)"
"\BMay 13, \J1861\j\b - \IMoreton Bay\i\b \ICourier\i\b becomes a daily."
"\BMay 13, \J1861\j\b - 25"
"\BMay 13, \J1861\j\b - F. T. Gregory explores country inland from Nickol Bay, WA (to 17 Oct.), and discovers and names the Ashburton, Fortescue, De Grey, and Oakover rivers and the Hamersley Range."
"\BMay 13, \J1861\j\b - û Copper discovered at Moonta, on Yorke Peninsula, SA."
"\BMay 19, \J1861\j\b - Helen Porter Mitchell (Nellie Melba) born (û \J1931\j)."
"\BMay 19, \J1862\j\b - McKinlay's party reach tidal waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria (second to make transcontinental crossing), then head east."
"\BMay 21, \J1862\j\b - Landsborough's party arrive at the Warrego, having discovered good pastoral land on their expedition down the Flinders and Thompson."
"\BMay 16, \J1862\j\b - Edward Gibbon Wakefield died (66)."
"\BMay 25, \J1864\j\b - John Joseph Therry died (73?)."
"\BMay 05, \J1865\j\b - Ben Hall shot dead near Forbes. (Gilbert shot dead and Dunn wounded near Binalong eight days later.)"
"\BMay 18, \J1865\j\b - Angus McMillan died (54)."
"\BMay 01, \J1868\j\b - Railway over the Blue Mountains, NSW, reaches Mount Victoria."
"\BMay 06, \J1868\j\b - Charles Sladen forms a ministry in Vic. following the resignation of James McCulloch because of a deadlock with the upper house over a grant to Gov. Darling."
"\BMay 01, \J1869\j\b - Tas. connected with the mainland by a permanent telegraphic cable from Low Head, at the mouth of the Tamar, to the Mornington Peninsula, Vic."
"\BMay 03, \J1869\j\b - Agricultural Society of NSW holds its first show in Sydney (at Prince Alfred Park, to 6 May)."
"\BMay 08, \J1869\j\b - 'Captain Moonlite' (Andrew Scott, an Anglican lay reader) holds up the bank at Mt Egerton, Vic."
"\BMay 27, \J1869\j\b - Railway from Sydney to Goulburn opened."
"\BMay 07, \J1869\j\b - George Gawler died (73)."
"\BMay 03, \J1870\j\b - Arthur Palmer becomes Premier of Qld following the resignation of Charles Lilley."
"\BMay 25, \J1870\j\b - 'Captain Thunderbolt' (Frederick Ward) shot dead near Uralla, NSW, by Constable A. B. Walker."
"\BMay 30, \J1870\j\b - John Hart becomes Premier of SA for the third time, replacing H. B. T. Strangways."
"\BMay 30, \J1870\j\b - Perth Town Hall opened."
"\BMay 04, \J1871\j\b - Australian Natives' Association (originally called the Victorian Natives' Society) founded in Melbourne."
"\BMay 04, \J1871\j\b - Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, opens."
"\BMay 10, \J1871\j\b - Act passed in NSW enabling the raising of a permanent military force."
"\BMay 11, \J1871\j\b - Tichborne estates trial begins in London. (Arthur Orton, a butcher from Wagga, claims to be the missing heir Roger Tichborne.)"
"\BMay 25, \J1871\j\b - NSW Trades and Labor Council holds its first meeting."
"\BMay 06, \J1872\j\b - General Post Office in King William Street, Adelaide, officially opened."
"\BMay 14, \J1872\j\b - Henry Parkes, re-elected to NSW parliament in Feb. as member for East Sydney, forms his first ministry."
"\BMay 30, \J1872\j\b - Thursday Is. and other islands in Torres Strait within 60 miles (97 km) of the mainland are annexed to Qld."
"\BMay 26, \J1873\j\b - Legislation passed in Britain allowing Australian colonies to impose preferential and differential duties on colonial goods."
"\BMay 23, \J1874\j\b - Iron sailing ship \IBritish Admiral\b\i wrecked on King Is., Bass Strait, with the loss of 79 lives."
"\BMay 17, \J1874\j\b - Sir Roger Therry died (74)."
"\BMay 06, \J1875\j\b - Ernest Giles leads an overland expedition from Beltana, in SA, to Perth (to 10 Nov.)."
"\BMay 08, \J1876\j\b - Truganini, the last surviving full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal on the island, dies."
"\BMay 18, \J1876\j\b - Luigi d'Albertis in the steam launch \INeva\b\i (with Lawrence Hargrave as engineer) leaves Somerset to explore in New Guinea. (Navigates 800 km up the Fly River; returns to Somerset 21 Nov.)"
"\BMay 08, \J1876\j\b - Truganini died (64?)."
"\BMay 24, \J1876\j\b - Henry Kingsley died (46)."
"\BMay 21, \J1877\j\b - Liberals win a sweeping victory in Vic; Graham Berry again becomes Premier."
"\BMay 16, \J1878\j\b - Quorn, SA, proclaimed a town."
"\BMay 09, \J1878\j\b - Thomas Sutcliffe Mort died (61)."
"\BMay 24, \J1878\j\b - Mary Grant Bruce born (- \J1958\j)."
"\BMay 28, \J1878\j\b - John Septimus Roe died (81)."
"\BMay 12, \J1879\j\b - Provincial and Suburban Bank in Melbourne closes its doors after a run on its coin."
"\BMay 15, \J1879\j\b - George Fife Angas died (90)."
"\BMay 12, \J1880\j\b - Melbourne Telephone Exchange Co. opens the first telephone exchange in Australia in Collins Street, Melbourne."
"\BMay 12, \J1880\j\b - û Chinese find gold at the Margaret River, NT, encouraging further migration to the NT."
"\BMay 17, \J1881\j\b - Prince Albert and Prince George (later King George V), teenage sons of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) arrive in Albany, WA, as midshipmen on HMS \IBacchante.\b\i (Visit Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane; leave Australia 20 Aug.)"
"\BMay 25, \J1881\j\b - Smallpox epidemic breaks out in the Rocks area of Sydney. (Over the next nine months, 178 cases are quarantined; 40 die.)"
"\BMay 17, \J1882\j\b - Adelaide and Port Augusta connected by rail."
"\BMay 05, \J1882\j\b - Douglas Mawson born (- \J1958\j)."
"\BMay 14, \J1883\j\b - Government telephone exchange opened in Adelaide. (Other exchanges opened in Hobart [6 Aug.] and Launceston [12 Dec.].)"
"\BMay 03, \J1884\j\b - Oriental Banking Corporation of London closes its doors, forcing Australian branches to do likewise. (Reopen on 6th; later reconstructed as the New Oriental Bank.)"
"\BMay 01, \J1886\j\b - Railway from Adelaide to Bordertown officially opened."
"\BMay 22, \J1886\j\b - Sydney's first cable tramway begins, from Milsons Point to Ridge Street, North Sydney. (Converts to electricity in \J1900\j.)"
"\BMay 30, \J1886\j\b - SS \ILy-ee-moon\b\i wrecked off Green Cape, NSW; 76 lives lost."
"\BMay 05, \J1887\j\b - Australian Socialist League formed in Sydney."
"\BMay 06, \J1887\j\b - Working Men's College (later Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) inaugurated in Melbourne. (Opens 7 June.)"
"\BMay 11, \J1887\j\b - Express train runs into a stationary train at Windsor, Melbourne; 6 killed; 154 injured."
"\BMay 30, \J1888\j\b - Louis Buvelot died (74)."
"\BMay 01, \J1889\j\b - With the opening of the Hawkesbury River railway bridge, Sydney is directly connected by rail to Newcastle, and thus a rail link is formed between Adelaide and Brisbane."
"\BMay 01, \J1889\j\b - Gen. Sir Henry Norman becomes Governor of Qld."
"\BMay 04, \J1889\j\b - Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) opens in Holtermann's Tower, North Sydney."
"\BMay 01, \J1891\j\b - Trial of the unionists arrested in Clermont and Barcaldine begins in Rockhampton; twelve of the strike committee gaoled for conspiracy. Workers in Barcaldine hold the first May Day procession."
"\BMay 02, \J1891\j\b - David Lindsay leads a scientific expedition from Warrina, SA, to cover unexplored land westward to the coast of WA."
"\BMay 02, \J1891\j\b - Two Aborigines murder a Pole named Murskiewicz at Dora Dora Creek, near Albury. (Culprits captured after a three-year manhunt.)"
"\BMay 09, \J1891\j\b - Two Labour candidates win seats in the SA Legislative Assembly."
"\BMay 30, \J1891\j\b - Meeting of Vic. labour organisations in Melbourne (to 2 June) forms the Progressive Political League and draws up a platform."
"\BMay 08, \J1891\j\b - Sir John Robertson died (74)."
"\BMay 01, \J1892\j\b - May Day procession inaugurated in Sydney."
"\BMay 23, \J1892\j\b - Frederick Deeming, convicted killer of his wife and four children in England and a second wife in Melbourne, is hanged in Melbourne."
"\BMay 02, \J1892\j\b - Barcroft Boake died (26). "
"\BMay 01, \J1893\j\b - Government of Vic. proclaims a five-day moratorium in the form of a bank holiday to give banks time to consider their position and allow public excitement to cool down. Some banks stay open."
"\BMay 03, \J1893\j\b - NSW legislates to make bank notes a first charge on assets (as in Vic. and SA) and declares all bank notes legal tender (16th)."
"\BMay 05, \J1893\j\b - Colonial Bank of Australasia in Melbourne suspends payment, followed by the Bank of Victoria (9th), the Queensland National Bank and the Bank of North Queensland (15th), the Commercial Banking Co. of Sydney (16th), and the City of Melbourne Bank and the Royal Bank of Queensland (17th). All eventually reopen after reconstruction."
"\BMay 26, \J1893\j\b - NSW authorises payment in Treasury notes to people with deposits locked up in suspended banks."
"\BMay 29, \J1893\j\b - Sir Robert Duff becomes Governor of NSW."
"\BMay 26, \J1893\j\b - Eugene Goossens born (-\J1962\j)."
"\BMay 24, \J1895\j\b - Labour Electoral Leagues and the Australian Labour Federation in NSW merge to form the Political Labour League, with J. S. T. McGowen as leader."
"\BMay 04, \J1897\j\b - First ship enters the newly opened Fremantle Harbour."
"\BMay 05, \J1898\j\b - Paddle-steamer \IMaitland\b\i wrecked near Broken Bay, NSW, with the loss of 26 lives."
"\BMay 07, \J1898\j\b - SS \IMerksworth\b\i founders in Stockton Bight; nine of the crew drown."
"\BMay 29, \J1898\j\b - Greeks and Syrians begin building Australia's first Greek Orthodox church in Surry Hills, Sydney."
"\BMay 26, \J1898\j\b - Laurence Hartnett born (-\J1986\j)."
"\BMay 18, \J1899\j\b - Earl Beauchamp becomes Governor of NSW."
"\BMay 10, \J1900\j\b - \ISierra Nevada\i\b wrecked at Back Beach, Portsea, Vic; 23 drown."
"\BMay 08, \J1901\j\b - Federal parliamentary Labour party formed, with J. C. Watson as leader."
"\BMay 09, \J1901\j\b - Duke of Cornwall and York (later King George V) opens the first Commonwealth parliament in Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Parliament then meets in the Vic. Legislative Assembly building (and continues to do so until \J1927\j)."
"\BMay 15, \J1901\j\b - J. G. Jenkins becomes Premier of SA, F. W. Holder having resigned to become Speaker in the Commonwealth parliament."
"\BMay 27, \J1901\j\b - George Leake replaces Throssell as Premier of WA."
"\BMay 15, \J1901\j\b - Xavier Herbert born (û \J1984\j)."
"\BMay 05, \J1902\j\b - Commonwealth Public Service Act establishes Australia's civil service."
"\BMay 31, \J1902\j\b - Boer War ends with a peace treaty signed in Pretoria."
"\BMay 02, \J1902\j\b - Alan Marshall born (û \J1984\j)."
"\BMay 08, \J1903\j\b - Railway engine-drivers and firemen in Vic. go on strike, causing the first large-scale disruption of a public utility. (Called off on 15th after Coercion Act introduced into parliament.)"
"\BMay 26, \J1903\j\b - SS \IOakland\i\b wrecked near Port Stephens, NSW, with the loss of 11 lives."
"\BMay 25, \J1904\j\b - Five miners die in a mine-shaft fall at the Great Boulder gold mine, East Coolgardie, WA."
"\BMay 02, \J1904\j\b - Wilfrid Thomas born (û \J1991\j)."
"\BMay 29, \J1904\j\b - Hubert Opperman born"
"\BMay 24, \J1905\j\b - Empire Day inaugurated (on the late Queen Victoria's birthday)."
"\BMay 31, \J1905\j\b - (Royal) Automobile Club of Queensland formed in Brisbane."
"\BMay 05, \J1906\j\b - Electric trams begin operating in Melbourne between St Kilda and Brighton."
"\BMay 07, \J1906\j\b - N. J. Moore replaces C. H. Rason as Premier of WA."
"\BMay 29, \J1906\j\b - A. W. Canning leaves Wiluna, WA, to explore towards Halls Creek (arrives Jan. \J1907\j), with a view to establishing a stock route from the Kimberleys to the markets in the south of the state."
"\BMay 08, \J1907\j\b - Carlton and United Breweries Ltd established in Melbourne by the amalgamation of six breweries."
"\BMay 07, \J1908\j\b - Coat of arms granted to the Commonwealth. (Design amended in \J1912\j.)"
"\BMay 16, \J1908\j\b - Commonwealth Literary Fund established to assist needy authors."
"\BMay 16, \J1908\j\b - û Ship \IOrion\i\b disappears between Smithton and Melbourne; 27 lives lost."
"\BMay 20, \J1908\j\b - Henry Bolte born (û \J1990\j)."
"\BMay 24, \J1909\j\b - Alfred Deakin's Liberal Protectionists and Joseph Cook's Free Traders, with the corner group led by Sir John Forrest, combine to form the Fusion, or Liberal Party."
"\BMay 22, \J1909\j\b - Bob Dyer born (û \J1984\j)."
"\BMay 01, \J1911\j\b - Uniform penny postage comes into operation."
"\BMay 18, \J1912\j\b - W. A. Watt replaces John Murray as Premier of Vic."
"\BMay 30, \J1912\j\b - HMAS \IMelbourne\i\b, the RAN's first cruiser, launched in Britain."
"\BMay 24, \J1912\j\b - Joan Hammond born"
"\BMay 28, \J1912\j\b - Patrick White born (û \J1990\j)."
"\BMay 01, \J1913\j\b - First Commonwealth Treasury banknotes issued."
"\BMay 31, \J1913\j\b - Election for House of Representatives and half Senate; Labor loses its majority in the lower house; results; 38 Liberals (including six country members endorsed by the NSW Farmers and Settlers' Assoc.), 37 Labor."
"\BMay 31, \J1913\j\b - Referendums on proposals to give the Commonwealth power to legislate on trade and commerce, corporations, industrial matters, trusts, nationalisation of monopolies, and railway disputes all rejected."
"\BMay 06, \J1913\j\b - Douglas Stewart born (û \J1985\j)."
"\BMay 18, \J1914\j\b - Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson succeeds Lord Denman as Governor-General."
"\BMay 19, \J1915\j\b - Anzacs beat off a determined Turkish attack, in which some 3,000 Turks are killed. Truce arranged to bury the dead. (Another on 24th.)"
"\BMay 19, \J1915\j\b - John Simpson (Kirkpatrick), the man with the donkey, killed."
"\BMay 19, \J1915\j\b - Lance-corporal Albert Jacka wins the first VC awarded to an Australian in World War I."
"\BMay 22, \J1915\j\b - Labor gains a clear majority in the Qld election; T. J. Ryan becomes Premier (1 June)."
"\BMay 31, \J1915\j\b - Judith Wright born"
"\BMay 25, \J1916\j\b - û News of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin reaches Australia, leading to a wave of anti-British and anti-war feeling among Irish Australians and Catholics."
"\BMay 24, \J1916\j\b - Arthur Roden Cutler born"
"\BMay 03, \J1917\j\b - Second Battle of Bullecourt begins (7,000 Australian casualties)."
"\BMay 05, \J1917\j\b - Election for House of Representatives and half Senate; Hughes's Nationalists win 53 of the 75 lower house seats and all 18 vacant seats in the Senate."
"\BMay 05, \J1917\j\b - Referendum held in Qld on the abolition of the Legislative Council: 116,196 for; 179,105 against."
"\BMay 06, \J1917\j\b - Daniel Mannix becomes Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne on the death of Archbishop Carr and subsequently makes several anti-conscription speeches."
"\BMay 12, \J1917\j\b - Australian and British troops capture Bullecourt and (15th) repulse a German counter-attack."
"\BMay 13, \J1917\j\b - Commonwealth railway line extended from Pine Creek, NT, to Katherine."
"\BMay 24, \J1917\j\b - Les Darcy died (21)."
"\BMay 31, \J1918\j\b - Lt-Gen. John Monash takes command of the Australian Corps in France, with Brig.-Gen. T. A. Blamey as chief of staff."
"\BMay 04, \J1919\j\b - Battle of the Barricades on Fremantle waterfront (to 8th) between striking wharf labourers, non-unionist strike-breakers, and police; one killed and 33 injured."
"\BMay 07, \J1919\j\b - Australia granted a C class League of Nations mandate over former German Territories in the Pacific."
"\BMay 17, \J1919\j\b - James Mitchell replaces Colebatch as WA Premier."
"\BMay 19, \J1919\j\b - Broken Hill mines closed by strike (to Nov. \J1920\j)."
"\BMay 19, \J1919\j\b - Seamen's strike (to 26 Aug.) halts most shipping around Australia."
"\BMay 28, \J1919\j\b - Electric trains begin running in Melbourne (Sandringhamû Essendon)."
"\BMay 27, \J1920\j\b - Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) arrives in Melbourne in HMS \IRenown\i\b to begin a tour of all states (to 18 Aug.)."
"\BMay 31, \J1920\j\b - Bert Hinkler flies from London to Turin non-stop, setting a long-distance record."
"\BMay 31, \J1920\j\b - û Qld Premier E. G. Theodore fails to negotiate a much-needed loan in London because of a financial boycott organised by pastoral companies. He subsequently borrows in New York and calls an election."
"\BMay 30, \J1920\j\b - G. E. ("Chinese") Morrison died (58)."
"\BMay 01, \J1921\j\b - Legislation enacted to set up peacetime military forces."
"\BMay 09, \J1921\j\b - New Guinea Act comes into force; military administration in the Mandated Territory is replaced by a civil government."
"\BMay 29, \J1921\j\b - Bulk wheat first shipped from a terminal in Sydney."
"\BMay 24, \J1923\j\b - Postmaster-General approves a sealed-set broadcasting system, under which radio receivers would be tuned to only the station to which the listener paid a subscription."
"\BMay 27, \J1923\j\b - Jon Molvig born (û \J1970\j)."
"\BMay 30, \J1925\j\b - Labor wins government at the NSW state election. (J. T. Lang sworn in as Premier on 17 June.) New MLAs include H. V. Evatt and Millicent Preston-Stanley (Nationalist), the first woman to be elected to NSW parliament."
"\BMay 16, \J1926\j\b - Federal Aid Roads Agreement regulates Commonwealth assistance to the states for building and maintaining roads."
"\BMay 26, \J1926\j\b - Three killed and 153 injured in a train collision at Caulfield, Vic."
"\BMay 15, \J1928\j\b - Australian Inland Mission's Flying Doctor Service begins operating from Cloncurry, Qld."
"\BMay 31, \J1928\j\b - Charles Kingsford Smith and C. T. P. Ulm, with Americans Harry Lyon and James Warner, leave Oakland, California, in the \ISouthern Cross\b\i to make the first flight across the Pacific (arrive Brisbane 9 June)."
"\BMay 30, \J1928\j\b - Pro Hart born"
"\BMay 11, \J1929\j\b - McCormack government defeated in the Qld election; A. E. Moore becomes Premier (21 May); Irene Longman, the first woman elected to the Qld parliament, wins the seat of Bulimba."
"\BMay 11, \J1929\j\b - Tom Ugly's Bridge, across the Georges River south of Sydney, opened."
"\BMay 24, \J1930\j\b - Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, arrives at Darwin."
"\BMay 21, \J1930\j\b - Malcolm Fraser born"
"\BMay 28, \J1930\j\b - George W. Lambert died (56)."
"\BMay 05, \J1931\j\b - Nationalist Party merges with the Lyons group to form the United Australia Party; Lyons becomes opposition leader (7th)."
"\BMay 25, \J1931\j\b - Premiers' Conference (to 10 June) adopts a plan involving increased taxation and cuts in wages, pensions, and interest rates."
"\BMay 06, \J1932\j\b - Commonwealth issues a proclamation requiring state officials to pay specific revenues into the Commonwealth Bank by 11 May."
"\BMay 08, \J1932\j\b - Bridge over the Clarence River at Grafton completed, allowing unbroken passage of trains between Sydney and Brisbane on standard-gauge line."
"\BMay 10, \J1932\j\b - Lang issues confidential circular instructing government departments not to pay money to the Commonwealth."
"\BMay 13, \J1932\j\b - NSW Governor Sir Philip Game dismisses Lang from office and asks B. S. B. Stevens, leader of the newly formed UAP, to form a provisional government."
"\BMay 19, \J1932\j\b - Sir Stanley Argyle becomes Premier of Vic., leading to a coalition ministry."
"\BMay 13, \J1933\j\b - Referendum carried in NSW for reform of the Legislative Councilùto be reduced to 60 members, chosen by joint sittings of both houses, 15 retiring every three years. (Takes effect on 23 Apr. \J1934\j.)"
"\BMay 30, \J1933\j\b - Commonwealth Grants Commission established to deal with applications from the less populous states for special grants of funds."
"\BMay 15, \J1935\j\b - On an airmail flight to NZ, \ISouthern Cross,\b\i piloted by Kingsford Smith, develops engine trouble, and P. G. Taylor climbs out under the wing to transfer oil from one engine to the other, for which he is awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal (later the George Cross)."
"\BMay 13, \J1935\j\b - Nigel Butterley born"
"\BMay 06, \J1936\j\b - Australian Council for Civil Liberties founded in Melbourne."
"\BMay 22, \J1936\j\b - Federal government announces its trade diversion policy, prohibiting or restricting certain imports from countries outside the Empire."
"\BMay 29, \J1937\j\b - Volcanic eruptions at Rabaul, New Britain (to 3 June), largely destroy the town and cause some 500 casualties."
"\BMay 21, \J1940\j\b - Essington Lewis appointed Director-General of Munitions."
"\BMay 21, \J1940\j\b - û Nine newspapers banned for refusing to abide by censorship regulations."
"\BMay 10, \J1941\j\b - Labor swept into office in NSW election; W. J. McKell becomes Premier (on 16th)."
"\BMay 12, \J1941\j\b - \IDaily Mirror\i\b begins publication in Sydney."
"\BMay 12, \J1941\j\b - HMAS \IWhyalla\i\b (corvette), the first ship built at BHP's Whyalla shipyard, launched."
"\BMay 31, \J1941\j\b - British and Australian troops evacuated from Crete, but three battalions of 6th Division are left behind and taken prisoner."
"\BMay 07, \J1942\j\b - Battle of the Coral Sea (to 8th) forces a Japanese invasion fleet to turn back and abandon its attempt to capture Port Moresby."
"\BMay 31, \J1942\j\b - Three Japanese midget submarines enter Sydney Harbour; one is sunk by depth charges; one tangles in boom nets and is blown up by its crew; the third apparently escapes after torpedoing a naval depot ship (the ferry \IKuttabul\i\b), which sinks with the loss of 19 lives."
"\BMay 08, \J1943\j\b - Bus carrying soldiers and servicewomen collides with a train at a level crossing near Wodonga, Vic; 25 killed."
"\BMay 14, \J1943\j\b - Hospital ship \ICentaur\i\b sinks after being torpedoed off Cape Moreton, Qld, on its way to the war zone; 268 lives lost."
"\BMay 20, \J1943\j\b - Naval installations at Exmouth Gulf, WAùthe most southerly point attacked by Japanese aircraftùsuffer an air raid (again on 21st)."
"\BMay 03, \J1944\j\b - Labor returned to office in NSW with an increased majority."
"\BMay 23, \J1944\j\b - John Newcombe born"
"\BMay 01, \J1945\j\b - Australian forces land at Tarakan Is., Borneo."
"\BMay 09, \J1945\j\b - VE Day (8th) celebrated in Australian cities."
"\BMay 11, \J1945\j\b - Australian forces capture Wewak, New Guinea."
"\BMay 30, \J1945\j\b - White Paper on post-war plans for full employment presented to parlia-ment."
"\BMay 02, \J1946\j\b - Commonwealth Employment Service begins."
"\BMay 31, \J1946\j\b - Ansett Transport Industries established."
"\BMay 05, \J1947\j\b - Sixteen people killed and 38 injured when a speeding train derails at Camp Mountain, Qld."
"\BMay 25, \J1947\j\b - Australia joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)."
"\BMay 25, \J1947\j\b - Rupert Bunny died (82)."
"\BMay 11, \J1948\j\b - Inaugural session of the South Pacific Commission held in Sydney."
"\BMay 18, \J1948\j\b - Legislation enacted for proportional representation in Senate elections."
"\BMay 29, \J1948\j\b - Referendum seeking permanent Commonwealth power to control rents and prices defeated."
"\BMay 19, \J1949\j\b - Royal commission appointed in Vic. to investigate the activities of the Communist Party (sits from 20 June to 6 Mar. \J1950\j)."
"\BMay 25, \J1949\j\b - Horsham, Vic., proclaimed a city."
"\BMay 16, \J1950\j\b - Electricity Commission of NSW established to take over the generation of electricity in the state."
"\BMay 31, \J1950\j\b - Sale, Vic, proclaimed a city."
"\BMay 05, \J1951\j\b - John Flynn ("Flynn of the Inland") died (70)."
"\BMay 27, \J1951\j\b - Sir Thomas Blamey died (67)."
"\BMay 07, \J1952\j\b - Ten people killed and 81 injured in a train crash at Berala, Sydney."
"\BMay 07, \J1952\j\b - û Sixty-year-old artist Ian Fairweather sails a home-made raft from Darwin to the island of Roti, south-west of Timor."
"\BMay 08, \J1953\j\b - Sir William Slim succeeds Sir William McKell as Governor-General."
"\BMay 09, \J1953\j\b - Election for half Senate. (Subsequent party affiliations: 29 ALP, 31 Lib.ûCP.)"
"\BMay 07, \J1954\j\b - British interests in TEAL taken over by Australia."
"\BMay 17, \J1954\j\b - Petrov royal commission begins its inquiry."
"\BMay 21, \J1954\j\b - Tennant Creek, NT, proclaimed a town."
"\BMay 29, \J1954\j\b - Election for House of Representatives; MenziesûFadden government re-elected with a reduced but safe majority."
"\BMay 28, \J1955\j\b - Cain Labor government defeated in Vic. election; Henry Bolte becomes Premier (8 June)."
"\BMay 16, \J1956\j\b - Britain explodes the first of two nuclear tests (Operation Mosaic) at the Monte Bello Islands. (Second, on 19 June, raises a radioactive cloud that drifts over the mainland.)"
"\BMay 19, \J1956\j\b - Labor wins its eighth successive election in Qld."
"\BMay 19, \J1956\j\b - Sir Frank Beaurepaire died (65)."
"\BMay 01, \J1957\j\b - Federal government announces amendments to the National Service system: number of trainees to be reduced; training in the navy and air force to be discontinued; registration to remain compulsory, but intake to be determined by a ballot based on the date of birth."
"\BMay 11, \J1958\j\b - Work finishes on Adaminaby Dam, completing Lake Eucumbene (4,807 mil. kilolitres capacity)."
"\BMay 31, \J1958\j\b - Bolte government re-elected in Vic."
"\BMay 02, \J1959\j\b - Reece Labor government re-elected in Tas."
"\BMay 04, \J1959\j\b - First major power station of the Snowy Mountains scheme (T1 underground station) begins operating."
"\BMay 07, \J1959\j\b - Legislation enacted establishing a permanent Australian Universities Commission."
"\BMay 11, \J1960\j\b - Futures trading begins in Australia with the establishment of Sydney's Greasy Wool Futures Exchange."
"\BMay 19, \J1960\j\b - Legislation passed prohibiting telephone tapping except in the interests of national security."
"\BMay 28, \J1960\j\b - Nicklin coalition government re-elected in Qld."
"\BMay 22, \J1961\j\b - Sir Lionel Lindsay died (86)."
"\BMay 08, \J1962\j\b - US Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrives in Canberra for a two-day session of the ANZUS Council."
"\BMay 09, \J1962\j\b - External Affairs Minister Sir Garfield Barwick announces that Australia, if invited, would send a handful of military instructors to South Vietnam. (Up to 30 instructors committed on 24th.)"
"\BMay 10, \J1962\j\b - Prime Minister Menzies foreshadows the establishment of a US naval communications centre at North-West Cape, WA."
"\BMay 28, \J1962\j\b - Australia commits a squadron of RAAF Sabre jets to Thailand."
"\BMay 09, \J1963\j\b - Australia and the US sign an agreement allowing the US to establish and operate a naval communications station at North-West Cape, WA."
"\BMay 09, \J1963\j\b - Townsville's bulk sugar terminal, containing 78,000 tonnes of raw sugar, catches fire and burns for five days."
"\BMay 14, \J1963\j\b - The MutilatorùWilliam McDonaldùarrested for the murder and sexual mutilation of derelict men in Sydney over the previous two years."
"\BMay 28, \J1963\j\b - Margaret Preston died (88)."
"\BMay 02, \J1964\j\b - Reece Labor government re-elected in Tas."
"\BMay 28, \J1964\j\b - Legislation enacted authorising Commonwealth financial aid to public and private schools for science education (from 1 July), thereby reviving state aid to Church schools."
"\BMay 28, \J1964\j\b - û Australian army engineers sent to Sabah, Malaysia."
"\BMay 01, \J1965\j\b - Labor defeated in NSW after 24 years in office; R. W. Askin becomes Premier."
"\BMay 27, \J1965\j\b - First Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, leaves Sydney in the aircraft-carrier \ISydney\i\b for active duty in Vietnam."
"\BMay 26, \J1966\j\b - Australia's third commercial oilfield declared at Barrow Is., WA."
"\BMay 28, \J1966\j\b - Nicklin coalition government re-elected in Qld."
"\BMay 29, \J1966\j\b - Harry Chan, MLC, becomes mayor of Darwin, the first of Asian ancestry to hold such a position."
"\BMay 01, \J1967\j\b - National campaign of immunisation against poliomyelitis with Sabin oral vaccine begins."
"\BMay 16, \J1967\j\b - Liberal members of parliament, including Edward St John in his maiden speech, call for a new inquiry into the \IVoyager\i\b sinking in \J1964\j."
"\BMay 27, \J1967\j\b - Two Commonwealth referendums heldùproposal to end the nexus between numbers in both houses of parliament defeated; proposal to end constitu-tional discrimination against Aborigines approved."
"\BMay 29, \J1967\j\b - Five-dollar note goes into circulation."
"\BMay 31, \J1967\j\b - Oil strike in Kingfish well in Bass Strait."
"\BMay 10, \J1968\j\b - Prince Philip visits Australia (to 5 June) for the third Duke of Edinburgh Study Conference."
"\BMay 14, \J1968\j\b - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, begins a five-day visit to Australia."
"\BMay 15, \J1968\j\b - NT member in the House of Representatives granted full voting rights."
"\BMay 21, \J1968\j\b - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visits Australia (to 27th)."
"\BMay 28, \J1968\j\b - Sydney vice king Joe Borg dies when a bomb explodes in his car at Bondi. (Leaves $250,000 to RSPCA.)"
"\BMay 28, \J1968\j\b - û Mineral boom begins on Australian stock exchanges."
"\BMay 15, \J1968\j\b - Florence Austral died (74)."
"\BMay 28, \J1968\j\b - Kylie Minogue born"
"\BMay 01, \J1969\j\b - Australia becomes party to the Universal Copyright Convention."
"\BMay 10, \J1969\j\b - Labor Party defeated in Tas. after 35 years in office; W. A. Bethune, leader of the LiberalûCentre Party coalition, becomes Premier. (For the first time since \J1910\j, no Labor government holds office in Australia.)"
"\BMay 15, \J1969\j\b - Clarrie O'Shea, secretary of the Vic. tram and bus employees' union, is gaoled following his union's refusal to pay fines imposed by the Commonwealth Industrial Court. (National strikes protesting against the penal clauses follow; O'Shea is released on 21 May after the union's fines are paid anonymously.)"
"\BMay 17, \J1969\j\b - Bjelke-Petersen government re-elected in Qld."
"\BMay 29, \J1969\j\b - Coral Sea Islands Territory, off the Qld coast between the Barrier Reef and 157░ east, comes under Commonwealth control."
"\BMay 30, \J1969\j\b - Launceston experiences its worst floods for forty years."
"\BMay 07, \J1969\j\b - Sir John Ferguson died (87)."
"\BMay 03, \J1970\j\b - International terminal at Sydney's Kingsford Smith Airport officially opened by the Queen."
"\BMay 08, \J1970\j\b - More than 70,000 people, led by federal MP Jim Cairns, march through Melbourne in protest against Australian participation in the Vietnam War; similar moratorium rallies held in other capital cities."
"\BMay 30, \J1970\j\b - Labor wins SA election; Don Dunstan again becomes Premier."
"\BMay 30, \J1970\j\b - Bolte government re-elected in Vic."
"\BMay 14, \J1970\j\b - Sir William Dobell died (70)."
"\BMay 15, \J1970\j\b - Jon Molvig died (46)."
"\BMay 24, \J1970\j\b - Frank Dalby Davison died (76)."
"\BMay 24, \J1971\j\b - Neville Bonner, chosen by the Liberal Party to fill a casual Senate vacancy, becomes the first Aboriginal member of any Australian parliament."
"\BMay 26, \J1971\j\b - Qantas pays $500,000 to bomb hoaxer-extortionist Mr Brown (Peter Macari). (Arrested three months later.)"
"\BMay 26, \J1971\j\b - û Seabed agreement between Australia and Indonesia signed in Canberra."
"\BMay 27, \J1971\j\b - Chips Rafferty died (62)."
"\BMay 28, \J1971\j\b - Roland Wakelin died (84)."
"\BMay 10, \J1972\j\b - Adelaide University lecturer George Duncan drowns in the Torrens River after being thrown in by a group of men. (Special investigation winds up in \J1990\j without casting light on allegations against police officers.)"
"\BMay 27, \J1972\j\b - Bjelke-Petersen government re-elected in Qld with a reduced majority."
"\BMay 27, \J1972\j\b - û ACTU places a black ban on all French ships and aircraft as a protest against continuation of French nuclear tests in the Pacific."
"\BMay 19, \J1973\j\b - Hamer government re-elected in Vic."
"\BMay 19, \J1973\j\b - û Karmel report for the Australian Schools Commission recommends a big increase in spending on education."
"\BMay 01, \J1974\j\b - Sir Frank Packer died (67)."
"\BMay 20, \J1974\j\b - Ian Fairweather died (82)."
"\BMay 20, \J1975\j\b - Connor's authority to raise an overseas loan revoked."
"\BMay 29, \J1975\j\b - Family Law Bill passed. (No-fault divorce laws come into effect on 5 Jan. \J1976\j.)"
"\BMay 01, \J1976\j\b - Labor government elected in NSW; Neville Wran becomes Premier. Referendum on proposal to continue with daylight saving approved."
"\BMay 01, \J1976\j\b - Steele Hall and a majority of the Liberal Movement in SA rejoin the Liberal Party."
"\BMay 21, \J1976\j\b - Harold Blair died (51)."
"\BMay 15, \J1977\j\b - Australian Democrats party launched by former Liberal MP Don Chipp."
"\BMay 21, \J1977\j\b - Referendums on proposals to fill casual Senate vacancies with members of the same party, to allow territorial electors to vote in referendums, and to set a retiring age for judges carried; proposal to hold simultaneous House of Representatives and Senate elections rejected. National poll held to determine the public choice of a national song; results: Advance Australia Fair 2,940,854, Waltzing Matilda 1,918,206; God Save the Queen 1,257,341, and Song of Australia 652,858."
"\BMay 25, \J1977\j\b - Second report of the Fox Commission makes no firm recommendation that uranium mining go ahead and recommends more stringent controls for the Ranger mine's development."
"\BMay 11, \J1978\j\b - Australia's first open university, Deakin, at Geelong, Vic., officially opened."
"\BMay 18, \J1978\j\b - Prince Charles in Melbourne (to 19th) for the funeral of Sir Robert Menzies."
"\BMay 15, \J1978\j\b - Sir Robert Menzies died (83)."
"\BMay 05, \J1979\j\b - Hamer government re-elected in Vic."
"\BMay 30, \J1979\j\b - Norfolk Island Act assented to, providing for a Legislative Assembly of nine members and an Executive Council of three Assembly members."
"\BMay 30, \J1979\j\b - û Remains of the last of the seven young women who disappeared in Adelaide in \J1976\jû77 found in bushland near Truro, SA. (James William Miller arrested on 24th and charged with their murder.)"
"\BMay 23, \J1980\j\b - Australian Olympic Federation votes to send a team to the Olympic Games in Moscow despite a call by the federal government for a boycott because of Russia's intervention in Afghanistan. (Individual athletes subsequently withdraw.)"
"\BMay 24, \J1980\j\b - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip visit Australia for the opening of the High Court building in Canberra (26th)."
"\BMay 29, \J1980\j\b - Convicted bank robber Darcy Dugan released from Maitland Gaol, NSW, after spending more than 30 of his 59 years in prison. (Re-arrested and charged on 2 July \J1981\j with armed hold-up of a service station.)"
"\BMay 02, \J1980\j\b - Clarrie Grimmett died (88)."
"\BMay 07, \J1981\j\b - Alleged crime boss Robert Trimbole flees Australia."
"\BMay 28, \J1981\j\b - R. J. Hamer resigns as Premier of Vic. and is replaced by Lindsay Thompson (2 June)."
"\BMay 28, \J1981\j\b - û Grant of assisted passage restricted to refugees."
"\BMay 15, \J1982\j\b - Liberal government elected in Tas; Robin Gray becomes Premier."
"\BMay 10, \J1983\j\b - Canberra lobbyist and former ALP federal secretary David Combe declared persona non grata by the federal government for his association with expelled Soviet diplomat Valeriy Ivanov."
"\BMay 16, \J1983\j\b - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps aside while a royal commission investigates allegations made on the TV program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the magistracy."
"\BMay 17, \J1983\j\b - Royal commission under Justice R. M. Hope set up to inquire into Australia's security and intelligence agencies."
"\BMay 31, \J1983\j\b - Final report of the royal commission into drug trafficking tabled in federal parliament."
"\BMay 15, \J1985\j\b - Ananda Marga members Ross Dunn, Timothy Anderson, and Paul Alister are pardoned and released from gaol after serving seven years of a sixteen-year sentence."
"\BMay 03, \J1985\j\b - Sir Percy Spender died (87)."
"\BMay 10, \J1986\j\b - NT Chief Minister Ian Tuxworth resigns following pressure from his party."
"\BMay 10, \J1986\j\b - (Steve Hatton elected to replace him, 14th.)"
"\BMay 12, \J1987\j\b - Robert Trimbole, wanted in Australia on numerous charges involving murder, drugs, race fixing and corruption, dies in Spain."
"\BMay 27, \J1987\j\b - Prime Minister Bob Hawke is granted a double dissolution of parliament; election called for 11 July."
"\BMay 08, \J1987\j\b - Marjorie Barnard died (89)."
"\BMay 25, \J1987\j\b - Robert D. FitzGerald died (85)."
"\BMay 04, \J1988\j\b - Darling Harbour (Syd.) redevelopment officially opened by the Queen."
"\BMay 09, \J1988\j\b - Parliament House on Capital Hill, Canberra, officially opened by the Queen."
"\BMay 11, \J1989\j\b - ACT Legislative Assembly sits for the first time."
"\BMay 13, \J1989\j\b - Election in Tas. Results: Liberal 17, Labor 13, independents 5. (Robin Gray's minority Liberal government sworn in 1 June.)"
"\BMay 15, \J1989\j\b - Australia's first private tertiary institution, Bond University, opens at Burleigh Heads, Qld."
"\BMay 28, \J1989\j\b - Dick Smith completes a round-the-world flight via both poles."
"\BMay 30, \J1989\j\b - Timothy Anderson arrested on charges related to the Hilton Hotel bombing in Sydney on 13 Feb. \J1978\j. (Found guilty, 25 Oct. \J1990\j; sentenced to 14 years' gaol. Acquitted 6 June \J1991\j following appeal.)"
"\BMay 06, \J1990\j\b - InterCity train crashes into the rear of a stationary chartered steam train (3801) near Cowan, NSW; six killed and many injured."
"\BMay 07, \J1990\j\b - Tas. businessman Edmund Rouse gaoled for three years for offering a bribe to a state Labor MP to cross floor in no-confidence vote. (Royal commission in Nov. \J1991\j finds that Liberal leader Robin Gray was involved.)"
"\BMay 11, \J1990\j\b - Tim Macartney-Snape becomes the first person to climb Mount Everest from sea level (having begun at the Bay of Bengal on 5 Feb.)."
"\BMay 11, \J1990\j\b - Business jet aircraft crashes near Atherton, north Qld, killing all 11 people on board, including the mayor of Cairns and nine other local government officials."
"\BMay 25, \J1991\j\b - Election in NSW. Results: Liberal-National coalition 49, Labor 46, independents 4. Nick Greiner forms a minority government, agreeing to a charter of reform to obtain support of independents."
"\BMay 23, \J1991\j\b - Manning Clark died (76)."
"\BMay 29, \J1992\j\b - Businessman Alan Bond is sentenced to 2╜ years' gaol for acting illegally during the \J1987\j rescue of Rothwells merchant bank. (Released in August and acquitted in November after a retrial.)"
"\BMay 07, \J1994\j\b - Residents of Christmas Island vote at a referendum for greater self-rule but reject secession."
"\BMay 09, \J1994\j\b - Entrepreneur Laurie Connell found guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice; sentenced to five years' gaol."
"\BMay 24, \J1994\j\b - Two drivers and two officials die as one of the cars competing in the Cannonball Run from Darwin to Uluru and back, crashes near Alice Springs. (to 27th). Massive wind storm blows millions of tonnes of dust across south-eastern Australia."
"\BMay 31, \J1994\j\b - Ten days after his arrest, 49-year-old road worker Ivan Milat is charged with the murder of the seven backpackers whose bodies were found in Belanglo State Forest, NSW."
