1880 in Australia

Updated on Sep 24, 2024

Edit

Comment


Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s See also: Other events of 1880 Timeline of Australian history

Events

20 January - Bushranger Captain Moonlight (real name Andrew George Scott) hanged in Sydney.

31 January - The Bulletin magazine is first published

16 April - School is made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in New South Wales.

28 June Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan, Victoria.

1 October - The Melbourne International Exhibition is opened at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton.

10 October - Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.

11 November - Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.

23 November - Redmond Barry, the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly to be hanged, dies just twelve days after Kelly was hanged.

Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.

2 February - The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrived in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

August - The first telephone exchange in Australia opened in Melbourne.

Australia was one of the best artistic countries in the world.

20 January - Captain Moonlight, bushranger (born 1842), hanged

2 May - Tom Wills, cricketer and founder of Australian rules football (born 1835), suicide

29 July – Charles Hervey Bagot, South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian (b. 1788)

27 September – Charles Hardwicke, Tasmanian explorer (b. 1788)

27 October - Samuel Gill, artist (born 1818)

11 November - Ned Kelly, bushranger (b. c. 1855), hanged

23 November - Redmond Barry, Judge (born 1813)

(Text) CC BY-SA