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The Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria) in Australia, on 6 February 1851, burning up 5 million hectares (12 million acres; 50,000 square kilometres; 19,000 square miles), or about a quarter of the state's area.
The highest number of homes destroyed was approximately 3,700 dwellings, attributed to Victoria's 1939 Black Friday bushfires. [ 5 ] The fires of the summer of 2019–2020 affected densely populated areas including holiday destinations resulting in the New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner , Shane Fitzsimmons , to claim it was ...
State Library of Victoria's Bushfires in Victoria Research Guide Guide to locating books, government reports, websites, statistics, newspaper reports and images about Victorian bushfires from 1851 to the present. Country Fire Authority; Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning: Fire & emergencies; VicEmergency (Incidents and warnings)
1925–26 Victorian bushfire season; 1943–44 Australian bushfire season; 1943–44 Victorian bushfire season; 1965 Gippsland Bushfires; 1996–97 Australian bushfire season; 2003 Eastern Victorian alpine bushfires; 2006–07 Australian bushfire season; 2006–07 Eastern Victoria Great Divide bushfires; 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission
Surgeon General Sir James Mouat VC KCB FRCS (14 April 1815 – 4 January 1899) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Many parts of eastern Australia including Queensland, New South Wales and Gippsland, in Victoria, were already in drought. [1] Above normal fire was also predicted for large parts of Southern Australia and Eastern Australia by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC. The forecast noted that Queensland had recorded the ninth driest and fourth ...
List of shipwrecks: 4 April 1815 Ship State Description Clio United Kingdom: The ship was driven ashore at Pillau, Prussia. She was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Pillau. [99] She was later refloated and taken in to Pillau. [100] Olive Branch United Kingdom: The ship was destroyed by fire near Deptford, Kent.
Born on 24 February 1815 at Highbury, Middlesex (now London), he was the eldest son of Susannah Louisa (born ffrith) and Æneas Barkly, a Scottish born West India merchant. [1] He was educated at Bruce Castle School in Tottenham , where the school's particular curriculum endowed him with a lifetime interest in science and statistics.