- 1797 – HMS Reliance arrives in Sydney from the Cape of Good Hope, carrying stores ordered by Governor Hunter and merino sheep imported by John Macarthur.
- 1916 – William Jackson awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in a raid near Armentières, France.
- 1918 – SS Wimmera struck a mine off Gabo Island laid by the German raider Wolf and sank.
- 1949 – A seven week coal strike involving 23,000 miners began.
- 1950 – Twenty-eight die in Australia's worst aviation disaster when an ANA Skymaster crahes near York, Western Australia.
- 1988 – The Australian Recording Industry Association compiles the first ARIA Charts.
- 1998 – The Marree Man geoglyph appears in the desert near Marree, South Australia.
- 2006 – The world's first successful triple organ transplant is performed in Australia.