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30 January – The Federal Bank collapses, starting the Australian banking crisis of 1893. [1] 4 February – 1893 Brisbane flood devastates Queensland. [2] 14 June – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others. Queensland is granted its Coat of Arms; Coolgardie and Esperance are both declared as towns
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
Australia celebrates centenary of federation. 25 February: Death of Donald Bradman, aged 92 in Kensington Park, Adelaide, South Australia. Western Australia adopts a uniform age of consent of 16. Boat load of asylum seekers is rescued by Norwegian ship, leading to the Tampa affair. Australian forces deployed to War to topple Taliban for ...
Austrian-born but Australian-based landscape artist Eugene von Guerard (1811–1901) had invested his finances in Australia. After moving to Europe in 1882, his wife died in 1891, and then he lost his investments in the 1893 crisis. This resulted in van Guerard living in poverty in Chelsea, London, England, until he died in 1901 aged 89. [27]
Constitutional conventions in Australia are significant meetings that have debated the Australian Constitution.The first two gatherings debated Federation and what form of Constitution to adopt, while the following conventions debated amendments to the document.
By the 1880s half the Australian population lived in towns, making Australia more urbanised than the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. [30] Between 1870 and 1890 average income per person in Australia was more than 50 per cent higher than that of the United States, giving Australia one of the highest living standards in the world. [31]
The colonies voted by referendum to unite in a federation in 1901, and modern Australia came into being. Australia fought as part of British Empire and later Commonwealth in the two world wars and was to become a long-standing ally of the United States through the Cold War to the present.
The Educational Institute of Scotland, the oldest teachers' trade union in the world, was founded. 1847 (United States) New Hampshire is first state to establish the ten-hour workday. [6] 1848 (United States) Pennsylvania's child labor law establishes the age of 12 as the minimum age for workers in commercial occupations. [6] 1848 (Germany)