Английская Википедия:1878 in Australia

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English Шаблон:Refimprove Шаблон:Year in region The following lists events that happened during 1878 in Australia.

Incumbents

Governors

Governors of the Australian colonies:

Premiers

Premiers of the Australian colonies:

Events

  • 8–9 January – "Black Wednesday", 300 senior public servants are sacked in Victoria by the government of Graham Berry as revenge against the Legislative Council, on the grounds that as the appropriation bill had not been passed in the council, they could not be paid.[13]
  • 20 May – One thousand unemployed men march up Collins Street, Melbourne, demanding relief work. Premier Berry agrees to construct sanitation works and thus employ two hundred men.[14]
  • 1 June – The clipper ship Loch Ard is wrecked at Mutton Bird Island, just off the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria; 45 die, only two lives are saved.[15]
  • 9 December – Ned Kelly and his gang lock 22 people in a storehouse on a sheep station near Euroa. The next day they rob Euroa's bank.[16]

Exploration and settlement

Science and technology

Arts and literature

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  • 30 November – Advance Australia Fair first sung publicly at the Highland Society of NSW's annual Scottish concert in the Protestant Hall, Sydney.

Sport

  • 22 April – The Stawell Gift is run for the first time on Easter Monday in April.
  • 5 November – Calamia wins the Melbourne Cup.

Births

Deaths

References

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