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Hace 6 días · History of discovery. The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves with others claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site called Ophir. Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling.
Hace 2 días · The history of Indigenous Australians began at least 65,000 years ago when humans first populated the Australian continental landmasses. This article covers the history of Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples, two broadly defined groups which each include other sub-groups defined by language and culture.
Hace 3 días · The flag of Hobart City Council, of Tasmania, Australia. Designed in 1951 by Hobart architect and alderman, I.G. Anderson and first flown in 1953. The star is derived from the arms of Lord Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760–1816), Secretary of State for War and the Colonies at the time of colonial settlement (1804), and ...
Hace 2 días · The $20 note features the founder of the world's first aerial medical service (the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia), the Reverend John Flynn (1880–1951), and Mary Reibey (1777–1855), who arrived in Australia as a convict in 1792 and went on to become a successful shipping magnate and philanthropist.
Hace 5 días · Britain's overseas possessions grew rapidly in the first half of the century, especially with the expansion of vast territories in Canada, Australia, India, and in the last two decades of the century in Africa.
29 de may. de 2024 · Inventions including the telegraph, typewriter, and the telephone led to faster and wider means of communication. From automobiles to laundry machines and batteries, the following list (by no means exhaustive) chronicles some of the most important innovations that took shape in the 19th Century.
22 de may. de 2024 · View a recording of the lecture by Professor Cassandra Pybus – March 2024. The 2024 AGM lecture by Professor Cassandra Pybus, “Morton Allport: the resurrection man of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1862-1876”, is now available on the RST YouTube channel. Open the post to view it now.
