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Australian History Monday, June 1, 1829. :   Today is Foundation Day for Western Australia. The first recorded sighting of Australia’s western coastline came in 1611, when Dutch mariner Hendrik...

Australian Explorers Wednesday, June 2, 1841. :   Eyre’s expedition across the Nullarbor is saved when he meets Captain Rossiter, of the whaler ‘Mississippi’. Edward John Eyre, born 5 August...

Australian Explorers Tuesday, June 3, 1862. :   John McKinlay, during his relief expedition to locate the missing Burke and Wills, loses a horse to snake bite. The Burke and...

Born on this day Sunday, June 4, 1911. :   Dr Alan Walker, founder of Lifeline, is born. Alan Walker, Australian theologian and the founder of Lifeline, was born on...

Australian Explorers Thursday, June 5, 1823. :   Explorer Allan Cunningham breaks through the Warrumbungle Range on his quest to find an overland route to the Liverpool Plains. Allan Cunningham...

Australian Explorers Wednesday, June 6, 1827. :   Explorer Allan Cunningham discovers the Darling Downs. Allan Cunningham was born on 13 July 1791 in Wimbledon, England. As a botanist who...

Australian Explorers Thursday, June 7, 1770. :   Lieutenant James Cook names Palm Island, off Australia’s eastern coast. Lieutenant James Cook was not the first to discover Australia, as he...

Australian Explorers Saturday, June 8, 1861. :   Burke and Wills attempt to collect Nardoo in their quest for survival. The Burke and Wills expedition was supposed to mark the...

Australian History Monday, June 9, 1851. :   Victorian Governor La Trobe offers a reward of 200 pounds to anyone finding gold within 200 miles of Melbourne. Gold was first...

Australian Explorers Sunday, June 10, 1770. :   Lieutenant James Cook’s “The Endeavour” runs aground and nearly sinks on the Great Barrier Reef. Following Lieutenant James Cook’s observations in Tahiti...

Australian History Wednesday, June 11, 1851. :   The first gold is found in Victoria. Gold was discovered in Australia as early as the 1830s, but discoveries were kept secret,...

Australian History Friday, June 12, 1931. :   The territories of North Australia and Central Australia are reunited as the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory is a federal territory of...

Australian Explorers Saturday, June 13, 1874. :   Explorer John Forrest’s party fires upon Aborigines during an attack in central Western Australia. John Forrest was born on 22 August 1847,...

Born on this day Tuesday, June 14, 1864. :   Alois Alzheimer, the man who first identifies the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, is born. Aloysius “Alois” Alzheimer was born on...

Australian History Sunday, June 15, 1862. :   Australia’s largest ever gold robbery is carried out by bushranger Frank Gardiner near Forbes, New South Wales. Frank Gardiner was born Francis...

Australian Explorers Monday, June 16, 1845. :   Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt discovers and names the Mitchell River in north Queensland. Ludwig Leichhardt was born in Prussia and studied in Germany....

Born on this day Sunday, June 17, 1703. :   John Wesley, founder of Methodism, is born. John Wesley was born on 17 June 1703, in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England. In...

Australian History Thursday, June 18, 1829. :   The colony of Western Australia is proclaimed. The western coast of Terra Australis Incognito is believed to have first been sighted by...

Born on this day Monday, June 19, 1797. :   Australian-born explorer Hamilton Hume is born. Hamilton Hume, born near Parramatta, New South Wales on 19 June 1797, was an...

Australian Explorers Monday, June 20, 1836. :   Australian explorer Major Thomas Mitchell names Swan Hill. Major Thomas Mitchell was born in Craigend, Scotland, in 1792. He came to Australia...

Born on this day Monday, June 21, 1982. :   Prince William of Wales is born. Prince William of Wales was born William Arthur Philip Louis Mountbatten-Windsor at 9:03pm on...

Born on this day Sunday, June 22, 1930. :   Aviator Charles Lindbergh’s young son, who is later kidnapped and murdered, is born. Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr was born on...

Australian History Saturday, June 23, 1810. :   Governor Macquarie opens Australia’s first post office. In 1809, Lieutenant Colonel Lachlan Macquarie arrived in Sydney to take up the position of...

Australian History Friday, June 24, 1870. :   Australian horseman and poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, commits suicide. Adam Lindsay Gordon was born on 19 October 1833, at Fayal in the...

Australian History Friday, June 25, 1847. :   Melbourne, capital of Victoria, is proclaimed a city. The city of Melbourne, Australia, began as an illegal settlement after native-born Australian John...

Australian Explorers Saturday, June 26, 1858. :   Explorer John McDouall Stuart discovers Chambers Creek, later to be renamed Stuart Creek. John McDouall Stuart was born in Dysart, Fife, Scotland,...

Born on this day Sunday, June 27, 1880. :   Helen Keller, the first blind and deaf person to communicate effectively with the sighted and hearing world, is born. Helen...

Australian Explorers Sunday, June 28, 1789. :   Governor Arthur Phillip sets out to trace the course of the Hawkesbury River. Captain Arthur Phillip was Governor of the colony of...

Born on this day Sunday, August 29, 1790. :   The inventor of the idea of dental floss, Levi Spear Parmly, is born. Levi Spear Parmly was born in Braintree,...

Australian Explorers Sunday, June 30, 1861. :   Explorer Robert O’Hara Burke dies on the banks of Cooper Creek. Robert O’Hara Burke, with William Wills later appointed second-in-command, led the...