November 04
Australian History Monday, November 4, 1878. : Police patrols are increased along the Murray River as the manhunt for the Kelly gang intensifies, following the murder of three policemen at Stringybark Creek. Ned Kelly, Australia’s most famous bushranger, was born in December 1854 in Beveridge, Victoria. Kelly was twelve when his father died, and he was subsequently […]
November 12
Australian Explorers Wednesday, November 12, 1873. : Colonel Warburton’s exploration party is reduced to subsisting only on camel meat. Peter Warburton was an ex-navy Colonel who had served in India. After his retirement, he came to Australia, and was appointed to command the Police Forces of the Colony of South Australia. It was during this time that […]
November 07
Born on this day Thursday, November 7, 1867. : Polish scientist Marie Curie is born. Marie Curie was born Maria Sklodowska on 7 November 1867, in Warsaw, Poland. She was unique for being one of the most celebrated scientists of all time, achieving her outstanding reputation at a time when her field was dominated almost exclusively by […]
November 01
Australian Explorers Wednesday, November 1, 1865. : The first European explorer who would see Ayers Rock, William Christie Gosse, is appointed Government Surveyor in the South Australian colony. William Christie Gosse was born on 11 December 1842 in Hoddesdon, England. His parents migrated to Adelaide in 1850, where his father became a leading figure in Adelaide, being […]
November 11
Australian Explorers Sunday, November 11, 1860. : Explorers Burke and Wills first reach Cooper Creek on their expedition to cross Australia from south to north. Robert O’Hara Burke and William Wills led the expedition that was intended to bring fame and prestige to Victoria: being the first to cross Australia from south to north and back again, […]
November 13
Born on this day Wednesday, November 13, 1850. : Novelist and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, is born. Robert Louis Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Originally studying law, he never practised and instead devoted himself to writing. One of the most well-read adventure writers of the eighteenth century, he is best known for […]
November 09
Australian Explorers Thursday, November 9, 1848. : After a gruelling five-month journey through thick rainforest, Edmund Kennedy finally reaches Weymouth Bay in North Queensland. Edmund Kennedy was born in 1818 on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands of the English channel. As a surveyor, he arrived in Sydney in 1840 where he joined the Surveyor-General’s Department as […]
November 25
Born on this day Monday, November 25, 1844. : Karl Benz, German engineer and inventor of the petrol-driven automobile, is born. Karl Friedrich Benz was born on 25 November 1844, in Baden Muehlburg, Germany, now part of Karlsruhe. The son of an engine driver, Benz went to school at the Karlsruhe grammar school and Karlsruhe Polytechnic. Benz […]
November 17
Australian Explorers Tuesday, November 17, 1840. : Eyre replenishes his supplies at Fowler’s Bay, South Australia, as he prepares to cross the continent to the west. Edward John Eyre was the first white man to cross southern Australia from Adelaide to the west, travelling across the Nullarbor Plain to King George’s Sound, now called Albany. Eyre began […]
November 18
Australian History Sunday, November 18, 1838. : The first group of German-Prussian Lutherans sponsored by wealthy Scottish businessman, George Fife Angas, arrives in South Australia. In the 1800s, under King Friedrich Wilhelm III, German/Prussian Lutherans suffered religious persecution. Friedrich Wilhelm was an autocratic king who believed he had the right to create his own state church from […]