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YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. Population of NSW (including Port Phillip)  was 44,588; Tasmania 24,279; WA 1,172

THE WORLD

1. George IV of Britain died
2. France appointed a king, Louis Philippe
3. Evangelist Joseph Smith (US) wrote the  Book of Mormon

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. Free land grants were discontinued in NSW and land sales by auction were introduced

THE WORLD

1. Naturalist Charles Darwin (UK) began his scientific voyage on HMS Beagle
2. Pope Pius VIII died and was succeeded by Gregory XVI

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. The first Government Gazette was issued
2. A large number of vine cuttings obtained by James Busby in France, Spain and Portugal arrived in Sydney in the transport Lady Harewood

THE WORLD

1. Turkey declared war on Egypt
2. The Turks were defeated at Konieh

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. Adam Lindsay Gordon was born (he died in 1870)

THE WORLD

1. Britain acquired the Falkland Islands as a Crown Colony
2. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire
3. Felix Mendelssohn (Ger) wrote his fourth Symphony, known as The Italian Symphony

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. The South Australia Association received a charter to found a British colony
2. Edward Henty established the first European settlement in the Port Phillip District at Portland Bay

THE WORLD

1. Britains Houses of Parliament were gutted by fire
2. Cyrus McCormick (US) patented a harvesting machine

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. John Batman signed a treaty with the Aboriginal People
2. John Wedge named the Yarra Yarra River
3. The first house was erected on the future site of Melbourne
4. Flooding of the Yarra River occurred which was the first recorded by white settlers

THE WORLD

1. Madame Tussauds wax works were opened in London, England

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Aboriginal people of the Kulin nation occupied this region, particularly in the autumn and spring months. Those born in this district belonged to the Wurundjeri baluk clan Woi wurrung language group

AUSTRALIA

1. Joseph Gellibrand visited the Diamond Creek area
2. 177 settlers arrived at Port Phillip. Census: 186 males; 38 females
3. Major Mitchell, Surveyor-General of NSW, crossed the Murray River and surveyed the Port Phillip District
4. John Gardiner was the first to overland from NSW to the Port Phillip district following Major Mitchell's route
5. Port Phillip Advertiser, the first newspaper published in the district

THE WORLD

1. John Ericsson (Swed) patented a screw propeller for ships
2. Davy Crockett and James Bowie were among 150 Americans killed at the siege of the Alamo

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. William Ryrie travelled from NSW to the Port Phillip District and purchased blocks of land in Melbourne
2. John Gardiner applied for grazing rights in the area south from the Olinda Creek, Yering to present day Mooroolbark

AUSTRALIA

1. Robert Hoddle surveyed the site of Melbourne and Governor Bourke named the future city

THE WORLD

1. William IV of England died and was succeeded by his niece Queen Victoria
2. The Boers (Dutch farmers) settled in Zululand and Natal in South Africa
3. Charles Dickens (UK) wrote Oliver Twist 

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Ryrie brothers drove cattle to Yering from NSW
2. William Ryrie planted vine cuttings at Yering which he had brought overland from NSW

AUSTRALIA

1. David Jones opened a retail store in Sydney
2. Fifty seven squatters were living in the Port Phillip district by the end of this year

THE WORLD

1. The first Afghan War began with the Siege of Herat conducted by the Persians and the Russians
2. The National Gallery was opened in London, England

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. William Ryrie established View Hill run of 12,000 acres and erected the homestead called The Elms

AUSTRALIA

1. Thomas Nutt surveyed the Yarra River
2. Assisted immigrants arrived on the David Clark, many of whom later settled in Kangaroo Ground
3. Governor LaTrobe arrived in Port Phillip

THE WORLD

1. The British led Indian armed forces in an invasion of Afghanistan, starting the first Anglo-Afghan war.
2. The First Opium War between Britain and China began
3. Charles Goodyear (US) discovered vulcanisation of rubber

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Battle at Yarra Flats (Yering Station) occurred between the Aboriginal people and police officers led by Crown Commissioner Gisborne

AUSTRALIA

1. Pawel Strzelecki climbed and named Mount Kosciusko
2. Estimated population: NSW 127,468; Tasmania 45,999; WA 2,311; SA 14,630
3. Melbourne Herald first published  

THE WORLD

1. The Treaty of Waitangi between Britain and the Maoris established New Zealand as a British colony
2. An uprising in France led by Louis Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon I, failed  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. First official census taken
2. Kerrs Melbourne Almanac was published
3. The parishes of Warrandyte and Yering were surveyed by Nutt

THE WORLD

1. Polar explorer James Ross (UK) discovered and named the Ross Sea in Antarctica
2. David Livingstone (UK) started his missionary work in South Africa

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Joseph Stevenson established Christmas Hills Station

AUSTRALIA

1. Sydney was incorporated as a city and  Melbourne as a town
2. Mary MacKillop was born  (she died in 1909)

THE WORLD

1. Physician Crawford Long (US) used ether as an anaesthetic for an operation
2. The Coal Mines Act prohibited British collieries from giving underground work to women and children

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Dr John Dickson established an outstation on Steels Creek (opposite Valley Road) which was then part of Gulf Station

AUSTRALIA

1. The Bank of Australia and the Sydney Banking Co. both failed
2. The Great Comet made its appearance in southern skies

THE WORLD

1. Natal in South Africa was declared a British Crown colony
2. The first war between the Maori and the white settlers began in New Zealand

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Charles Sturt, exploring the Broken Range near the site of Broken Hill, gathered the desert pea that bears his name
2. Swimming baths were opened on the south bank of the Yarra in Melbourne
3. Significant flooding of the Yarra River occurred

THE WORLD

1. Samuel Morses telegraph was used to transmit a message from Baltimore to Washington
2. The Young Mens Christian Association was founded in Britain by George Williams

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. James Graham and William Ryrie held a pastoral licence over View Hill

AUSTRALIA

1. Copper was discovered at Burra Burra, SA
2. The Queens Theatre Royal opened in Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. The potato crop failed in Ireland
2. John Henry Newman, UK Anglican priest became a Roman Catholic, later becoming Cardinal Newman

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Donald Ryrie purchased Dalry station

AUSTRALIA

1. The Sale of Waste Lands Act was passed in UK, offering squatters long leases in unsettled districts and other privileges
2. Corrugated iron was first used as roofing on Walwa homestead in the Port Phillip district

THE WORLD

1. John Deere (US) invented a plough with a steel mold-board
2. Mormons began their migration which ended at the Great Salt Lake

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Golf first played in Melbourne on the site of Flagstaff Gardens
2. Johann Gramp established his Orlando vineyard, the first in the Barossa Valley, SA, at Jacobs Creek near Rowlands Flat

THE WORLD

1. The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland was founded
2. The British Factory Act reduced the working hours of women and children to 10 hours a day  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Chloroform was first used as an anaesthetic in Australia
2. Melbourne Hospital opened
3. The Australian newspaper published

THE WORLD

1. Karl Marx (Ger) and Freidrich Engels (Ger) published  Communist Manifesto
2. The American Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in Philadelphia, PA

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Significant flooding of the Yarra River occurred

AUSTRALIA

1. The County of Evelyn was proclaimed
2. Edmund Barton, future first Australian Prime Minister was born (he died in 1920)
3. The Town of Geelong was incorporated

THE WORLD

1. Walter Hunt (US) patented the safety pin
2. Joseph Monier (Fr) produced reinforced concrete
3. The Californian Gold Rush was at its height

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. William Ryrie sold Yering Station to Paul de Castella

AUSTRALIA

1. Estimated populations: NSW 266,900; Tas. 68,870; WA 5,886; SA 73,700; Melbourne 23,000
2. Pentridge Gaol received its first prisoners
3. Measles first reported in Australia

THE WORLD

1. John Brett (UK) established telegraphic communication with continental Europe by submarine cable
2. Britain established its first public libraries

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Black Thursday bushfires
2. First available record of the Bell family's lease of Gulf Station from John Dixon dates from this time (although it probably began in the late 1940s)
3. James McPherson travelled from the Plenty Valley to west Yering and took up a pastoral licence he named Yarra Glen
4. Judith Furphy was the first person to be buried at Kangaroo Ground
5. Father Bourgeois was appointed to the Heidelberg Anglican parish and visited Healesville, Yarra Flats, Warburton and Lilydale

AUSTRALIA

1. Port Phillip was separated from NSW and the new colony was named Victoria.
2. The first gold digging licence was issued in Victoria after gold was discovered at Warrandyte

THE WORLD

1. Isaac Singer (US) made a practical sewing machine
2. The Great Exhibition was held in Hyde Park, London UK

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Transportation to eastern Australia ended with the dispatch of the last convict ship to Tasmania
2. Victoria received 94,600 immigrants (mainly gold diggers), doubling its population

THE WORLD

1. Missionary David Livingston (UK) began his exploration of the Zambesi River
2. Henry Wells and William G. Fargo found the Wells, Fargo Company in the USA

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. George Symons purchased the pastoral licence to View Hill (12,000 acres) from William Ryrie

AUSTRALIA

1. The Central Road Board was established in Melbourne
2. Gold surpassed wool as Australias major export
3. Freeman Cobb established a coaching service called Cobb & Co in Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. Alexander Wood (UK) introduced the hypodermic syringe
2. Giuseppe Verdi (Italy) presented his operas La Traviata and Il Trovatore

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Police attacked the Eureka stockade at Ballarat, five troopers and forty miners were killed
2. The Age newspaper was first published in Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. The Crimean War started with Britain, France and Turkey fighting against Russia
2. Elisha Graves Otis (US) demonstrated a safety lift at the New York Fair

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Gold rush to Caledonia (St. Andrews) started

AUSTRALIA

1. The University of Melbourne opened
2. Fred McCubbin was born (he died 1917)
3. Ned Kelly was born (he died 1880)

THE WORLD

1. Tsar Nikolai I of Russia died and was succeeded by his son Aleksandr II
2. The Crimean war continued
3. David Livingstone (UK) discovered the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. James McPherson purchased another 591 acres of land at West Yering
2. William Ryrie died at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland
3. Eltham Road District was established, covering land east beyond Yarra Flats and north to Kinglake
4. J. P. Taylor commenced surveys of the parishes in the County of Evelyn including the parish of Burgoyne

AUSTRALIA

1. Van Diemen's Land was officially renamed Tasmania
2. Pitcairn Islands entire community of 194 arrived at Norfolk Island for resettlement

THE WORLD

1. Britain declared war on China after confrontation at sea
2. Henry Bessemer (UK) revolutionised the steel industry with his design for a converter

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Land purchases included those of Andrew Harkness (250 acres at Yarra Flats), Thomas Walters (181 acres), Bell/Armstrong partnership (1188 acres)

AUSTRALIA

1. Melbourne streets were lit by gas
2. John Carter obtained a patent for the manufacture of corrugated-iron water tanks

THE WORLD

1. British destroyed the Chinese fleet and took Canton
2. The new Transvaal state was formally proclaimed as the South African Republic
3. Charles Dickens (UK) published Little Dorrit
4. Franz Liszt (Hungary) wrote his first piano concerto

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The track from Kangaroo Ground was improved and settlements grew at Watsons Creek and Christmas Hills.
2. The Kangaroo Ground Cemetery was gazetted
3. Crown Land sales included Bell & Armstrong partnership (Lot 2, 76 acres), George Symons (Lot 3, 140 acres), Joseph Johnson (Lot 5, 215 acres)

AUSTRALIA

1. A football match played between Scotch College and Church of England Grammar in Melbourne is considered to be the foundation of Australian Rules Football
2. Carlton Brewery was established in Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. The Suez Canal Company was formed
2.   The worlds largest steamship Great Eastern built by Isambard Kingdom Brunel (UK) was launched

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Song of Australia won the Gawler Institutes national song competition
2. The number of Chinese on the Victorian goldfields reached a peak of 42,000

THE WORLD

1. British Naturalist Charles Darwin published The Origin of the Species by Natural Selection
2. Charles Blondin (Fr) walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls
3. Building of the Suez Canal commenced  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. William Bell (1831-1877) married Mary Ann Little (1834-1915) on 17 August and they made their home at Gulf Station
2. William Herbert (1830-1907) married Margaret McPherson (1840-1913) on 20 September 1860. They established their home at Point Pleasant.

AUSTRALIA

1. The Nicholson Land Act was proclaimed in Victoria
2. Burke and Wills expedition left Melbourne in August

THE WORLD

1. Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States of America
2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was published
3. Etienne Lenoir invented an internal-combustion engine in France

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Census: Population of Burgoyne and Tarrawarra parishes 60 (37 males, 23 females)
2. John Hicks Petty appointed first postmaster at Yarra Flats
3. William Nicholson purchased View Hill from George Symons

AUSTRALIA

1. Census: Population of Victoria 540,000
2. Gold was found at Woods Point
3. First Melbourne Cup, won by Archer
4. Helen Porter Mitchell (Dame Nellie Melba) was born 19 May

THE WORLD

1. American Civil War began when several southern states formed a confederacy
2. Tsar Aleksandr II abolished serfdom in Russia
3. Abraham Lincoln elected 16th President of the USA

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Gold found at Woods Point and Yarra Track blazed by George Theodore  Rieck
2. Duffys Land Act was proclaimed in Victoria
3. Common Schools Act (Vic) established a Board of Education
4. Estimated population of Victoria: 551,388

THE WORLD

1. The first legal paper money was issued in the USA
2.  President Lincoln declared all slaves in the USA free

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Track opened from Eltham to Woods Point via Yarra Flats
2. Heavy rain and flooding of Yarra River in December

AUSTRALIA

1. Aboriginal People moved to Coranderrk
2. Area later named the Northern Territory (hitherto part of NSW) was annexed to South Australia
3. Cartes-de-visite  (photographic portraits) became popular
4. Victorian Acclimatization Society released 20 sparrows, 42 mynas and 36 starlings in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens and the NSW Society recommended planting blackberries as food for introduced birds.

THE WORLD

1. New Zealand government offered free grants of land to volunteers from Australia to fight in the Second Taranaki war
   
2. French chemist developed margarine

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Thomas Muncaster Bell applied for licence and opened Yarra Flats Hotel
   

AUSTRALIA

1. Stock Exchange of Melbourne was formed

THE WORLD

1. Louis Pasteur invented pasteurisation
2. International Red Cross founded in Geneva
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy published

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Pioneer selectors who took up 80 acre allotments at Christmas Hills under Grants Land Act included Robert Lowman, Spencer Burgess, Hamilton Sloan, Samuel Lorimer, David Wilson, Thomas Young, Robert Lorimer, Joseph Jacob, Richard Jacob, Elizabeth Anne McPherson, Benjamin Smith.
2. 50 selectors settled in Burgoyne Parish.

AUSTRALIA

1. Grants Land Act proclaimed in Victoria
2. William Arnott opened bakery in Newcastle forerunner of Arnotts biscuit factory
3. E.W. Cole opened bookshop in Melbournes Eastern Market

THE WORLD

1. Abraham Lincoln assassinated
2. Alice in Wonderland  by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) published
3. William Booth established the Christian Mission (later the Salvation Army) in London

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen Cemetery was gazetted in March as the Burgoyne Cemetery
   
2. First burials at cemetery included John Blair Hodgson (1824-1866) in October  and William Hannah (c1826-1866) in December
3. A site was selected for the Presbyterian Church and a building erected to serve as a school and church at Yarra Flats
   

AUSTRALIA

1. Mary McKillop and Father Tenison-Woods founded the Sisters of St Joseph at Penola, South Australia
2. Code of rules adopted for Australian Rules Football in Melbourne
3. Thomas Elder imported 122 camels from India to South Australia
4. Australias first protective tariff laws proclaimed in Victorian parliament

THE WORLD

1. Robert Whitehead (USA) developed the torpedo
2. Dr Barnardo opened his first home for orphans in East London
3. Queensbury Rules for boxing introduced in England

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Small gold rush to Steels Creek, particularly the Full and Plenty Creek area

AUSTRALIA

1.  General Post Office in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne opened

THE WORLD

1.  USA bought Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
   
2.  Joseph Lister introduced antiseptic surgery
   
3.  Alfred Nobel invented dynamite

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Official opening of Yarra Flats Common School (located near present Uniting Church) on 1 April with Alexander McIntyre as head teacher
2. Yarra Flats and Tarrawarra residents signed a petition to their Member of Parliament protesting against the sale of land previously identified as a river reserve. Important crossing place and site for proposed bridge (Argus 17 Nov 1868)

AUSTRALIA

1. Last convict transport to Australia, the Hougoumont, arrived at Fremantle
2. Maria Smith propagated the Granny Smith apple (NSW)

THE WORLD

1. Queen Isabel II deposed in Spain
2. US President Andrew Johnson impeached; Ulysses S Grant elected
3. William Gladstone succeeded Benjamin Disraeli as British Prime Minister

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. John Kerr purchased 1500 acres of swamp land on the river flats at Yering and named it Olinda Yarra. When drained and pastured it supported up to 500 dairy cattle.
2. Timber bridge built over Yarra River at Yarra Flats by J. Kilpatrick under contract from Eltham District Roads Board

AUSTRALIA

1. The Land Act 1869 (Grant's Land Act) was proclaimed in Victoria
2. Melbourne Herald newspaper became an evening daily publication
3. Welcome Stranger gold nugget was found near Dunolly

THE WORLD

1. Suez Canal opened to shipping
2. Emperor Napoleon III introduced parliamentary government in France
3. Dimitri Mendeleev devised periodic table classifying the chemical elements
   
    

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Captain Thunderbolt (Fred Ward) shot dead near Uralla, NSW, by Constable A. B. Walker
2. Adam Lindsay Gordon died 24 June 1870
3. Legislation passed in Victoria abolishing State Aid to religion (phased out over 5 years)

THE WORLD

1. Compulsory education for all began in Britain
2. Papal infallibility proclaimed by the Vatican Council

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Flats population 220, 42 dwellings
2. Crown Grants awarded to William Hubbard, James Keets, David Friar, William Jewson  and George Fletcher
3. Eltham Road District became Eltham Shire

AUSTRALIA

1. Alice Springs discovered as part of the Overland Telegraph Line
2. Bendigo proclaimed a city 21 July 1871

THE WORLD

1. Helena Rubenstein born 25 December 1871 (she died in 1965)
2. Henry Stanley found David Livingstone at Ujiji by Lake Tanganyika
3. Jehovahs Witnesses founded by Charles Russell
4. Chicago destroyed by fire

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Edward Cullis was licensee at the Junction Hotel
2. Richard R. Woolcott purchased View Hill. He extended Ryries cottage The Elms into a 15 room dwelling (which was later burnt, leaving only Ryries original cottage)

AUSTRALIA

1. Victorian Education Department formed
2. Tin discovered in Tenterfield NSW and in Stanthorpe Queensland
3. Overland Telegraph Line completed

THE WORLD

1. Britain introduced the secret ballot
2. Brooklyn Bridge was opened in New York
3. Jules Verne  published Around the World in Eighty Days

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Evelyn Observer newspaper started in Kangaroo Ground

AUSTRALIA

1. W. C. Gosse discovered and named Ayers Rock and the Musgrave Ranges
2. Railway line from Melbourne reached Wodonga on the NSW border
3. Population of Victoria reached 773,808 and NSW 552,836

THE WORLD

1. Farmer Joseph F. Glidden (US) invented barbed wire
2. Silver discovered in Nevada USA
3. The cities of Buda and Pesth united to form Budapest, capital of Hungary

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Victorian Humane Society formed in Melbourne. Later became the Royal Humane Society of Australasia
2. University of Adelaide established by an act of Parliament
3. Swan Brewery established in Perth

THE WORLD

1. Iceland obtained self government from Denmark
2. Claude Monet (Fr.) established Impressionism with painting 'Impression: Sunrise'
3. G. Annauer Hansen (Nor.) discovered the bacillus of leprosy
4. Modeste Mussorgsky (Russ.) presented the opera Boris Godunov and wrote 'Pictures at an Exhibition' for piano

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Road over the  Big Hill, Christmas Hills was officially opened
2. Dixons Creek school opened 1 July
3. Yarra Glen Cemetery register commenced 1 December

AUSTRALIA

1. Presbyterian Ladies College opened in Melbourne
2. Widespread flooding in NSW, Qld, SA and Tasmania
3. Polo first played in Australia at Albert Park, Melbourne
4. Charles Joseph La Trobe died 2 December aged 74

THE WORLD

1. Britain bought controlling share of Suez Canal from Khedive, the ruler of Egypt
2. First performance of Gilbert & Sullivan light opera 'Trial by Jury'
3. Christian Science movement began with the publication of writings of Mary Baker Eddy (US)
4. Matthew Webb (UK) was the first to swim the English Channel

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Truganini, the last surviving full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal on the island, died
2. C. J. Dennis born 7 September (died 1938)

THE WORLD

1. Lieut. Col. George Custer and his men massacred by Sioux Indians at Little Big Horn, Montana, USA.
2. First complete performance of Wagners Ring Cycle at Beyreuth
3. Scots-born  Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in USA
   
    

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Land was purchased from Thomas Armstrong for Yarra Glen school site

AUSTRALIA

1.  Penal establishment at Port Arthur, Tasmania was finally closed
2. Land Tax imposed in Victoria on estates over 640 acres and valued at more than 2500 pounds to break up large estates
3. Victorian Football Association was formed as the controlling body of Australian Rules Football (4 May)
   
    

THE WORLD

1. Russia, Romania and Serbia declared war on Turkey
2. Thomas Alva Edison (US) invented the phonograph
3. Carl Gustave de Laval (Swe.) invented a machine to separate cream from milk
4. First All-England tennis championship played at Wimbledon (UK)
   
    

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Robert Ramsay's house "Banool" under construction

AUSTRALIA

1. Kelly Gang killed three policemen at Stringybark Creek, Victoria
2. 'Advance Australia Fair', composed by Peter Dodds McCormick, first played and sung in Sydney on St. Andrews Day (30 November)
3. Stawell Gift first run, prize 20 sovereigns (won by W. J. Millard)

THE WORLD

1. 'H.M.S. Pinafore' written by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (UK)
2. David Hughes (US) invented the microphone
3. Evangelist William Booth (UK) names his Christian Mission "the Salvation Army

YARRA GLEN

1. New school  at Yarra Flats opened on current site in Symons Street
2. Methodist services began at Dixons Creek in private homes

AUSTRALIA

1. Reed and Barnes built the Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2. Caulfield Cup first run
3. Norman Lindsay born (died 1969)
4. E. W. Cole published his Funny Picture Book

THE WORLD

1. Zulu War began in South Africa
2. Britain invaded Afghanistan after the British legation at Kabul was massacred
   
    

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen Race Club formed

AUSTRALIA

1. Macpherson Robertson  began making confectionary in Fitzroy, Melbourne
2. Ned Kelly captured by police and the rest of the gang killed at Glenrowan
3. St. Pauls Cathedral, Melbourne opened
4. Australias population 2,231,531 (NSW, 741,142; Vic., 858,605)

THE WORLD

1. First cricket Test match between England and Australia played in Melbourne
2. New York's first electric street lights installed
3. Petr Tchaikovsky wrote the 1812 Overture

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Census: Yarra Flats population 288, 49 inhabited dwellings  
2. The first Methodist Church was erected in Dixons Creek

AUSTRALIA

1. Railway from Sydney reached Albury
2. Paspalum grass, acquired from South America, introduced into Victoria by Government Botanist F. J. H. von Mueller

THE WORLD

1. Louis Pasteur developed an anthrax vaccine
2. 300,000 people  reported killed when a tidal wave hit Indo-China
   
    

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

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AUSTRALIA

1. Cyclone hit Darwin; many buildings destroyed
2. Australian Electric Company exhibited electric light in Melbourne  (Illuminated Spencer Street Station in November)
3. Douglas Mawson born (died 1958)

THE WORLD

1. The Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration of Chinese into the USA for 10 years
2.  Robert Koch (Germany) discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis        

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The swag of a swagman exploded at Yarra Flats Hotel; gunpowder and gold sovereigns were found afterwards

AUSTRALIA

1. Bridge over Murray River at Albury-Wodonga completed.
2. Train service between Sydney and Melbourne, with change for break of gauge, opened 21 August
3. Coles Book Arcade opened in Bourke Street, Melbourne (closed 1929)

THE WORLD

1. American John Carbutt introduced a coated celluloid film for photography
2. Robert Louis Stevenson published Treasure Island
3. Krakatoa volcano erupted in Dutch East Indies, killing about 36,000 people  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Edward Gordon sent letter to authorities requesting a school for Steels Creek

AUSTRALIA

1. Victorian Womens Suffrage Society formed in Melbourne by Henrietta Dugdale and Annette Bean
2. Bare-fist boxing officially banned in all colonies after death of Victorian Alex Agar
3. Cyclist A. Edwards rode a penny-farthing bike from Sydney to Melbourne in 8 days

THE WORLD

1. France presented the Statue of Liberty to the USA
2. The worlds first skyscraper built in Chicago
3. Mark Twain published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn         

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Beginning of land sales in proximity of proposed railway station
2. Thomas Armstrong announced naming of Bell and Symons Streets

AUSTRALIA

1. First prospectus of the Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd issued
2. First cable tram service began in Melbourne (to Richmond)
3. Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Louis Abrahams set up an artists camp at Box Hill, Victoria, laying the foundations for the Heidelberg School

THE WORLD

1. Germany established a protectorate in North New Guinea, the British established a protectorate in South New Guinea.
2. Gilbert and Sullivan (UK) presented the opera The Mikado
3. In Germany, Karl Benz produced a three-wheel automobile and Gottlieb Daimler developed an internal combustion engine
4. William Burroughs (US) invented an adding machine

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Colonial Bank and Commercial Bank opened branches in Yarra Flats
2. School opened in Steels Creek with Edward Morris as teacher
3. A church was built at Steels Creek
4. Lilydale Express newspaper was started
5. Horse and cattle sales were held regularly at Yarra Flats from this date

AUSTRALIA

1. First Seventh Day Adventist church in Australia opened in Melbourne
2. Princess Theatre  opened in  Melbourne
3. D. M. Angus and George Robertson formed a bookselling partnership in Sydney

THE WORLD

1. Robert Louis Stevenson (UK) published Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Building of the Maroondah aqueduct. Large camp of navvies on Evans property
2. Postal service extended to Steels Creek with William Hubbard as mail contractor

AUSTRALIA

1. Gordon Memorial Technical College (later Deakin University) opened in Geelong

THE WORLD

1. Nellie Melba made her debut in grand opera in Rigoletto at Brussels
2. Gottlieb Daimler (Germany) produced the first successful automobile
3. Ludovic Lagarno Zamenhof (Poland) devised an international language Esperanto
4. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck called for a larger German army
   
   

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Railway opened at Yarra Glen
2. Antimony ore found near Yarra Glen
3. The Yarra Flats Football Club was formed (from 1890 known as Yarra Glen Football Club)

AUSTRALIA

1. Princes Bridge opened in Melbourne
2. Tamworth NSW became the first town in the Southern Hemisphere to be lit by electricity
3. First demonstration of a parachute jump in Australia made by J. T. Williams

THE WORLD

1. Christmas Island annexed by Britain, Nauru annexed by Germany
2.  John Boyd Dunlop (UK) invented pneumatic bicycle tyres
3. George Eastman (US) produced the Kodak box camera
4. "Jack the Ripper"  murders occurred in London        

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Burgoyne and Yarra Flats officially combined as Yarra Glen
2. Yarra Glen to Healesville railway line opened
3. Burgoyne Hotel opened by William and Henry Farrell

AUSTRALIA

1. Fire in Collins Street, Melbourne, completely destroyed Georges Emporium and Allans Music Warehouse; three fireman killed, nine seriously injured
2. First electric tramway in Australia operated between Box Hill and Doncaster

THE WORLD

1. The Eiffel Tower in Paris completed
2. George Eastman (US) produced roll film for cameras
3. Old-age insurance introduced in Germany

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Post Office opened in Steels Creek
2. Roman Catholic church building was completed in Yarra Glen
3. Yarra Glen Football Club played their first match

AUSTRALIA

1. Battery operated tramway in Bendigo, Victoria
2. Dr. Constance Stone of Melbourne was the first woman registered as a medical practitioner in Australia
3. Carbine won the Melbourne Cup for the second time

THE WORLD

1. Luxembourg gained independence from the Netherlands
2. Otto von Bismarck  dismissed as German Chancellor by Kaiser Wilhelm II

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Maroondah weir and aqueduct opened
2. Tenders were called to build a new Presbyterian Church at Yarra Glen
3. Census: Yarra Glen population was 459 with 74 inhabited dwellings
4. Thirty-seven women of the district signed the Women's Suffrage petition, tabled in Parliament in September with 30,000 signatures

AUSTRALIA

1. The Bank of Van Diemens Land failed in August together with three others in Melbourne and one in Sydney
2. Four banks and one building society in Melbourne collapsed in December

THE WORLD

1. Civil War waged in Chile
2. The first Labour Member was elected to the British Parliament
3. Petr Tchaikovsky (Russia) produced the Nutcracker ballet music
4. Building of the Trans-Siberian railroad  began

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Christ Church in Christmas Hills was built
2. A new Presbyterian Church was built in Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. The financial crisis worsened, particularly in Victoria
2. Jacky Howe shore a record 321 sheep in 8 hours 40 minutes using hand shears
3. G.W.L. Marshall-Hall formed a symphony orchestra in Melbourne
4. The Sheffield Shield cricket competition was inaugurated
5. Australias population: 3,305,753 (NSW, 1,183,157; Vic. 1,168,747)

THE WORLD

1. The marriage age for girls in Italy was raised to 12 years
2. C. F. Cross (UK) discovered viscose, leading to the manufacture of rayon
3. Rudolf  Diesel (Ger.), patented a diesel internal-combustion engine
4. Whitcombe  L. Judson (US) invented a slide fastener

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. A new building for the Post Office was erected in Symons Street, Yarra Glen
2. Victoria Hall was opened. The building had been converted from the former cheese factory, largely financed by Dr Kilpatrick
3. David Syme purchased View Hill and renamed the property Tarrawarra
4. An Anglican church service was held for the first time at Tarrawarra
5. The Healesville Guardian newspaper was established

AUSTRALIA

1. The Government of Victoria proclaimed a 5 day bank holiday moratorium to give banks time to consider their position and to cool public excitement
2. Sydneys first regular electric tramway service from North Sydney to Spit Junction began

THE WORLD

1. The US organised the overthrow of Hawaii's monarchy and the islands were annexed by a treaty
2. Uganda became a British colony
3. Petr Tchaikovsky (Russ.) wrote his 6th Symphony ("Pathetique). He died soon after
4. New Zealand women were given the right to vote

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. A Post Office was built at Christmas Hills by Thomas Young
2. The Leader (6 January) reported on gold diggings at Steels Creek
3. The Yarra Glen Butter & Cheese Company opened a factory beside the river

AUSTRALIA

1. The central business area of Melbourne was lit by electric street light
2. Widespread and serious floods occurred in NSW
3. Robert Gordon Menzies was born (he died in 1978)

THE WORLD

1. Japan declared war on China, primarily for control over Korea
2. Tsar Alexander III of Russia died
3. An inheritance tax (Death Tax)  was introduced in Britain
4. Rudyard Kipling (UK) published The Jungle Book

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. John Irvine leased the Yarra Flats Hotel
2. Dr. Kilpatrick departed from the Yarra Glen district

AUSTRALIA

1. Reinforced concrete was first used in Australia at Forest Lodge, Sydney
2. A.B. Patterson published The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

THE WORLD

1. Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) developed wireless telegraphy
2. King Gillette (US) invented a safety razor
3. Gustav Mahler (Austria) presented his Second Symphony
4. Oscar Wilde (UK) presented his play The Importance of  Being Earnest   

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Anthony Henry Scott purchased the general store formerly operated by Rene Yde at corner of Bell and King Streets, Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. Women voted in Australia for the first time during the election of the South Australian parliament
2. Motion pictures were first shown in Australia at the Tivoli in Melbourne
3. E.H. Flack of Victoria, sole Australian representative at the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, won the 800 and 1500 metres track events

THE WORLD

1. Henry Ford (US) made his first automobile
2. Scientist Alfred Nobel (Sweden) died. Nobel prizes were instituted
3. A tidal wave killed 22,000 people in Japan
4. The Olympic Games were revived in Athens

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Anglican Church was re-located to its present location in Bell Street, Yarra Glen
2. The Yarra Glen Tennis Club was started and the first tennis court was built near the railway station
3. William Hunt purchased land at Steels Creek

AUSTRALIA

1. St Patricks Cathedral, Melbourne was consecrated and formally opened
2. Henry Austin of Melbourne built Australias first internal-combustion-engine car
3. Charles Kingsford Smith born (he died in 1935)

THE WORLD

1. Turkey declared war on Greece
2. Physician Ronald Ross (UK) identified the cause of malaria
3. Britain celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Yarra Glen to Yea road was officially opened
2. Bushfires occurred at Dixons Creek and Yering followed by good rains
3. Anthony Henry Scott opened his store on the corner of King and Bell Streets

AUSTRALIA

1. The Federal Convention met in Melbourne for their final session and approved the draft constitution
2. Death duties were introduced in NSW
3. The first Christian Science services were held in Australia in a Melbourne reading room
4. Dick Cavill, aged 15, won the NSW swimming championship using the crawl stroke
5. Walter Lindrum born (he died in 1960)
6. Howard Florey born (died in 1968)

THE WORLD

1. Marie and Pierre Curie (Fr.) discovered Radium
2. Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Ger.) invented a rigid airship
3. Auguste Rodin (Fr.) sculpted The Kiss
4. H.G. Wells (UK) published The War of the Worlds     

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. A Roman Catholic parish was established, based in Healesville, and included Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. The first gramophones were imported to Australia
2. The Rosella Preserving and Manufacturing Company made its first tomato sauce
3. William Dobell born (he died in 1970)

THE WORLD

1. In South Africa, war began between the British and the Boers
2. Jean Sibelius (Fin.) wrote Finlandia
3. Motor omnibuses were introduced in London, England

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The road to Kinglake was completed
2. Bushfire in Dixons Creek burnt Mackenzies house, sheds and wagon; school children saved the school

AUSTRALIA

1. The Commonwealth of Australia became an independent British Dominion
2. An outbreak of plague caused 103 deaths in Sydney
3. Whaling operations out of Hobart ceased
4. Her Majestys Theatre opened in Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. Hawaii became a Territory of the USA
2. Jacques Edwin Brandenburger (Swiss.) invented cellophane
3. Puccini (It.) presented Tosca
4. Edward Elgar (UK) wrote The Dream of Gerontius

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Census Yarra Flats population 517; inhabited dwellings 102
2. The Tarrawarra school building was moved from Long Gully Road junction to the present School Lane to serve as a combined school and church building

AUSTRALIA

1. The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed and the first parliament opened in Melbourne
2. Miles Franklin published My Brilliant Career
3. Tuberculosis caused 3,557 deaths during the year

THE WORLD

1. Queen Victoria of Britain died and was succeeded by her son King Edward VII
2. Guglielmo Marconi (It.) transmited messages across the Atlantic by wireless telegraphy
3. Rachmaninoff (Russ.) wrote his second Piano Concerto
4. The Trans-Siberian railroad opened

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen District Improvement and Vigilance Association formed

AUSTRALIA

1. The New Idea magazine began publication in Melbourne
2. Nellie Melba made her first return visit to Australia
3. Dick Cavill swam 110 yards in 58.6 sec, becoming the first to break one minute using the Australian crawl stroke

THE WORLD

1. British explorer Robert Falcon Scott sailed to the Antarctic in the Discovery
2. Beatrix Potter (UK) wrote Peter Rabbit

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. About 400 people attended a public picnic at Yarra Glen organised by a committee of local ladies
2. Mr Thomas Greig took over the general store sold by Mr William T. Dawborn who moved to Healesville
3. Relief fund set up for drought stricken farmers

AUSTRALIA

1. The High Court of Australia was formally opened in Melbourne
2. The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria was established
3. Joseph Furphy, under the pseudonym 'Tom Collins', published Such Is Life

THE WORLD

1. First flights in a powered heavier-than-air machine were made by Orville and Wilbur Wright (US)
2. Pope Leo XIII died; succeeded by Pope Pius X
3. Emmeline Pankhurst (UK) founded the Womens Social and Political Union, beginning the suffragette movement in Britain

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Nathaniel Ellis was appointed Postmaster at Dixons Creek

AUSTRALIA

1. First Australian Rhodes Scholar selected
2. Sydney streets lit by electricity (Pyrmont power station switched on)
3. Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia (later Australia) formed

THE WORLD

1. Tibet's independence was established by a treaty with Britain
2.  Auguste Rodin (Fr.) sculpted 'The Thinker'
3.  Giacomo Puccini (It.) presented the opera 'Madame Butterfly'

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Bicycle Club formed
2. Bushfires close to Dixons Creek church
3. Heavy fall of snow in August at Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. Wilsons Promontory National Park officially reserved
2. Building of Flinders Street Station in Melbourne commenced
3. Australian population reached 4 million

THE WORLD

1. Norway gained independence from Sweden
2. Revolution in Russia; workers killed in St. Petersburg on Bloody Sunday
3. Albert Einstein (Ger.) published The theory of relativity

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. E. H. Cameron (Minister of Public Works) opened the new road from Yering to Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. Bondi Surf Life Saving Club (Australia's first surf club) was founded in Sydney
2. Surf bathing during the daytime on Sydneys beaches was made legal
3. Electric trams began operating in Melbourne between St. Kilda and Brighton

THE WORLD

1. Germany made plans to build a fleet of battleships
2. Frederick Hopkins (UK) discovered the existence of vitamins
3. 700 people died when an earthquake rocked San Francisco

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1.  Ernest. J. Berriman was appointed headmaster at Yarra Glen September to December.
2. Arthur and Minnie Boyd purchased 143 acres at Yarra Glen on River Road (now known as Yarraview Road)

AUSTRALIA

1. The Federal Government set the basic wage at 2 pounds 2 shillings per week (6 days per week)
2. Telephone trunk line opened between Sydney and Melbourne
3. Members of Federal parliament voted themselves their first pay increase (of 50%)

THE WORLD

1. British soldier Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scout movement
2. Gustav Mahler (Austria) presented his 8^th symphony (Symphony of a Thousand)
3. 1,000 died in an earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

AUSTRALIA

1. Cantilevered awnings first appeared on buildings in Australia
2. Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology opened in Melbourne
3. Harold Holt was born. He died in 1967
4. Wallabies Rugby Union team won a gold medal at the London Olympic Games

THE WORLD

1. 150,000 people died in an earthquake which destroyed Messina and Reggio, Sicily
2. British explorer Ernest Shackleton got to within 100 miles of the South Pole
3. Kenneth Grahame (UK) wrote The Wind in the Willows

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1.  Charlie Bath relinquished his lease of the Grand Hotel stables and returned to his own  premises in King Street

AUSTRALIA

1. Federal government introduced Age Pensions for men over 65 and women over 60 subject to means test 

THE WORLD

1. Leo H. Baekeland (US) invented Bakelite
2. Explorer Robert E. Peary (US) reached the North Pole

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

Do you know of a significant event in this year?

AUSTRALIA

1. Berri, SA, irrigation area was proclaimed
2. Victorian professional runner Jack Donaldson, competing in South Africa, established a world  record of 9.38 sec. for 100 yards (unbroken for 38 years)
3. A chalet was built at Mount Buffalo, Vic.

THE WORLD

1. Britain's King Edward VII died
2. Marie Curie (Fr) isolated radium
3. Robert Falcon Scott (UK) and Roald Amundsen (Nor) began separate expeditions to the South Pole

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1.  Census population 417
   

AUSTRALIA

1. First Commonwealth census held
2. Enrolment in federal government elections made compulsory
3. Jimmy Sharman started his travelling boxing troupe

THE WORLD

1. China is torn by revolution; a republic is proclaimed; revolutionaries bomb Nanking;  Sun Yat-sen is elected president of the United Provinces of China
2. Roald Amundsen (Nor) reaches the South Pole

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The easternmost part of Eltham Shire (41 sq. km. including Yarra Glen) was severed and joined to Healesville Shire

AUSTRALIA

1. Walter Burleigh Griffin won the competition for a design for Canberra
2. Federal government maternity allowance was introduced 5 pounds a child
3. Artist Russel Drysdale was born. He died in 1981.

THE WORLD

1. New Mexico became the 47th State of the USA
2. Robert Falcon Scott (UK) reached the South Pole, but died on the return journey
3. The British liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage; 1500 people were drowned  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen Golf Club was formed and in January opened a course in the area now occupied by Mackenzie Reserve
2. Water trough for cattle was installed on Steels Creek Road
3. Telegraph lines from Yarra Glen to Christmas Hills, Dixons Creek, Steels Creek, Toolangi were erected
4. The Presbyterian Manse was built on the corner of Bell Street and Petticoat Lane (now Yarra Street)
5. The Yarra Glen Show was re-located to the Recreation Reserve

AUSTRALIA

1. The Federal government basic wage increased to 8 shillings a day
2. Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd was founded,  Ernest Fisk was managing director
3. Singer Smoky Dawson was born. He died in 2008

THE WORLD

1. The Panama Canal was opened to shipping
2.  Hans Geiger (Ger) invents a radiation detector the Geiger Counter

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen Horticultural Society Bazaar
2. Road construction Yarra Glen to Healesville
3. Yarra Glen Railway station was burned to the ground
4. Local men and women enlisted for war service including Bayliss, Tonge, Cavanagh, Hunt, Pitcher, Shillito, Christensen, Wilson, Conradi, Dinsdale, Jell, Downer, Sands and Jessie White.

AUSTRALIA

1. Prime Minister Joseph Cook offered an expeditionary force of 20,000 people to the British government as support for the war effort
2. Severe and protracted drought affected most of Australia

THE WORLD

1. The assassination in Serbia of Austria's Archduke Franz-Ferdinand caused the outbreak of World War I
2. Austria attacked Serbia and Germany declared war on Russia and France,
3. Britain declared war on Germany
4. Italy and USA declared their neutrality

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Charles Smith, aged 23, drowned in the Yarra River
2. New railway station at Yarra Glen was opened

AUSTRALIA

1. Anzacs and other Allied forces landed at Gallipoli on 25 April
2. Income tax was imposed by the Federal government to pay for the war
3. Duke Kahanamoku visited Australia from Hawaii and popularized surfboard riding

THE WORLD

1. World War I continued: Italy joined France and Britain; battles at Ypres (Bel) and Neuve Chapelle and Loos (Fr); troops landed at Salonica (Greece) and Gallipoli (Turkey)
2. Albert Einstein (Ger) made known his theory of relativity

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Part of the railway viaduct bridge was burnt
2. New Presbyterian Minister was appointed, Rev. W. Chapman
3. The Dixons Creek church was replaced by volunteers, A new building was erected in one week

AUSTRALIA

1. Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League of Australia was formed
2. Referendum on conscription resulted in a no vote
3. Australian troops fought at Fromelles in the Battle of the Somme. Troops also captured Pozieres

THE WORLD

1. World War I continued: Battle of Verdun, offensives on the Somme and Marne rivers and in Mesopotamia: armoured tanks were used for the first time
2. US chemist Gilbert N. Lewis developed his theory of valancy, which explained how atoms are held together

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Agreement reached between Eltham Shire and Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works to supply water to Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. Holdens Motor Body Builders established a factory in Adelaide
2. Artist Fred McCubbin died, aged 62
3. Automatic totalisator was introduced at Randwick, Sydney

THE WORLD

1. The USA declared war on Germany
2. The battles of Arras, Aisne, Messines, Passchendaele and Cambrai resulted in heavy casualties
3. Carl Jung (Switz) wrote Psychology of the Unconscious  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Influenza epidemic in area
2. Record rains in the Yarra valley

AUSTRALIA

1. First direct wireless message was transmitted from Britain to Australia
2. Population reached 5 million
3. State Labour organisations adopted the name Australian Labour Party

THE WORLD

1. World War I ended after major German defeat, their navy mutinied
2. Tsar Nikolai II and his family were executed in Russia
3. Some women over 30 eligible to vote in Britain

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen and District Horticultural Society was formed and held its first show, in opposition to that of the established Yarra Glen Agricultural & Horticultural Show Society

AUSTRALIA

1. First reinforced concrete building was erected in Sydney (Angus and Coote Building)
2. Ross and Keith Smith won the race to be the first to fly mail from England to Australia
3. Electric trains began running in Melbourne (Sandringham to Essendon)

THE WORLD

1. The National Socialist (Nazi) Party was formed in Germany
2. Anti-British demonstrations were held in India at Amritsar; troops fired on a mob, killing 379 people
3. British airship R34 made the first lighter-than-air Atlantic double crossing

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra River flooded
2. Tarrawarra church was closed

AUSTRALIA

1. Estimated population of Australia:  5,411,297
2. Communist Party of Australia was founded at a meeting in Sydney
3. The Bahai faith was established in Australia

THE WORLD

1. Britain annexed Kenya
2. Civil war flared in Ireland over Home Rule
3. Prohibition of alcoholic liquor was made law in USA

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yarra Glen Football Club were Premiers in the Yarra Valley Football Association, defeating Healesville in the Grand Final
2. Edward Morris retired as headmaster at Steels Creek State School

AUSTRALIA

1. Underprivileged British children began coming to Australia under the Barnardos Homes scheme
2. The Archibald Prize was awarded for the first time to W. B. McInnes for his portrait of Desbrowe Annear
3. The Ginger Meggs comic-strip character was created by Jimmy Bancks

THE WORLD

1. Rebellion in Ireland ended with a treaty dividing the country; 29 southern counties became the Irish Free State, 6 northern counties remained part of the United Kingdom
2. Greece declared war on Turkey but was defeated at Sakkarya  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

AUSTRALIA

1. The Federal government basic wage was raised to 3 pounds 16 shillings (about $7.60)
2. The Country Womens Association was formed in Sydney
3. Writer Henry Lawson died, aged 55

THE WORLD

1. Egypt won independence from British rule
2. In India the Independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was imprisoned by British authorities for civil disobedience
3. Pharaoh Tutankhamuns tomb was discovered at Luxor, Egypt

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Yarra Glen & Lilydale Hunt Club moved to its present site at Yering

AUSTRALIA

1. General Motors signed an agreement with Holden for the manufacture of car bodies at Woodville, SA
2. Regular radio broadcasting began from station 2SB (later 2BL) in Sydney
3. Cairns was proclaimed a city.
4. The first house was connected to the sewerage system in Brisbane

THE WORLD

1. Russia became the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; The USA refused to recognise it
2. Adolf Hitler failed in an attempted coup detat in Munich. He began writing Mein Kampf
3. In Japan, more than 140,000 people died in an earthquake  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Peg Factory Annual Ball was held at Victoria Hall, notably lit by electric bulbs
2. View Hill (1450 acres) was subdivided into 22 blocks of 50-100 acres plus 39 township allotments
3. An auction was held 20 October for sale of Yarra Glen Racecourse 82 acres and weatherboard house

AUSTRALIA

1. H. P. Christmas opened Australias first Woolworths store in the Imperial Arcade, Sydney
2. Voting in federal elections was made compulsory
3. Cobb and Co. made their last coach run from Surat to Yuleba, Qld.

THE WORLD

1. The Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) in China admitted Communists
2. China recognised the USSR
3. Giacomo Puccini (It) presented the opera Turandot
4. George Gershwin (US) wrote Rhapsody in Blue

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Tarrawarra  bridge over the Yarra River was completed by Lilydale Shire Council
2. James Herbert donated land for the Yarra Glen Memorial Hall

AUSTRALIA

1. The population of Australia reached 6 million
2. Melbourne Town Hall was gutted by fire
3. Regular air mail service began between Sydney and Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. President SunYat-sen of China died
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald (US) wrote The Great Gatsby
3. R. A. Millikan (US) discovered cosmic rays

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Disastrous bushfires destroyed the Methodist churches at Badger Creek and Dixons Creek
2. Steels Creek tennis Club was opened
3. Yarra Glen Memorial Hall was opened

AUSTRALIA

1. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was formed (later became CSIRO)
2. General Motors (A/asia) Pty Ltd began operations in Australia
3. Jack Brabham, who became an Australian F1 champion driver, was born

THE WORLD

1. Civil war raged in China; Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek established a government
2. John Logie Baird (UK) demonstrated television in London
3. A.A  Milne (UK) published Winnie the Pooh

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Sam and Colin Crabtree were killed in a motor accident at the Yarra Glen railway crossing
2. Fire at Tarrawarra menaced View Hill homestead

AUSTRALIA

1. The Federal Parliament began sitting in Canberra
2. Melbourne criminals Squizzy Taylor and Snowy Cutmore died in a gun duel in Carlton
3. David Kirkpatrick, later known as singer Slim Dusty, was born

THE WORLD

1. The German economy collapsed and the mark became worthless
2. Josef Stalin secured political control in the Soviet Union
3. The film The Jazz Singer, the first full length movie with sound, was screened

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Improvements were made to Yarra Glen Racecourse: new saddling paddock,  fencing and a stewards stand
2. Alexander William (Bill) Farley was appointed Station Master at Yarra Glen
3. The Yarra Glen No. 1 Boy Scouts troupe was formed with 10 members

AUSTRALIA

1. The Commonwealth Savings Bank of Australia was established as a separate entity
2. Cadburys Dairy Milk Chocolate was first produced in Claremont, Tasmania
3. Speedo swimsuits were first produced
4. The first traffic lights in Australia were installed in Melbourne, corner of Collins and Swanston Streets

THE WORLD

1. Chinese Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking; Chiang was elected President of China
2. Alexander Fleming (UK) discovered penicillin
3. Maurice Ravel (Fr) composed Bolero
4. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was seen

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Fairview, a house owned by John Chandler between Tarrawarra and Yarra Glen, was burnt down
2. Mr. Albert (Bert) Scott built a butcher shop in Bell Street in front of his residence

AUSTRALIA

1. The railway line from Alice Springs to Adelaide was completed
2. Compulsory military training was replaced by a voluntary system
3. R. J. L. (Bob) Hawke, Australia's future Prime Minister, was born

THE WORLD

1. A world economic crises began with the collapse of the US Stock Exchange
2. The Lateran Treaty between the Pope and the Italian Government established the Vatican City as an independent state
3. Ernest Hemingway (US) published A Farewell to Arms

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Dr. W. D. Young commenced practice in place of Dr. Vogler
2. Unemployed Relief Committee was formed at Yarra Glen.
3. The Honour Roll was unveiled at the Memorial Hall
4. The Tarrawarra church/school building was moved to Healesville

AUSTRALIA

1. Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, arrived at Darwin
2. Sales tax was imposed for the first time by the federal government
3. Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup

THE WORLD

1. Allied occupation of Germany ended; the Nazis won one third the seats in the German Parliament
2. The Empire State Building in New York was opened
3. Clyde W. Tombaugh (US) discovered the planet Pluto
4. Noel Cowards (UK) play Private Lives was produced in London  

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Bitumen was laid on the road through Yarra Glen from the Yarra River bridge to the cemetery (2 kms) in May
2. An Unemployment Relief Committee was formed in Yarra Glen
3. The Yarra Glen Football Club won the Grand Final, defeating Kinglake.
4. The year was characterised by wet weather, floods and influenza

AUSTRALIA

1. Holdens Motor Body Builders merged with the US firm General Motors to form General Motors Holden
2. Severe flooding in all states during the year
3. Dame Nellie Melba died aged 69
4. Artist Tom Roberts died aged 75
5. A Totalisator was used for the first time at a Victorian Metropolitan Race Meeting, at Moonee Valley, for the Yarra Glen & Lilydale Hunt Club race meeting in August

THE WORLD

1. Japan invaded Manchuria, beginning a Sino-Japanese war
2. Physicist Auguste Piccard (Switz) ascended by balloon into the stratosphere
3. Geologist Douglas Mawson (Aust) explored the Antarctic coastline

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Diptheria and measles were prevalent at beginning of the year
2. Yarra Glen Cricket Club were premiers for the 1931-1932 season
3. Snow fell in Yarra Glen and Christmas Hills in August

AUSTRALIA

1. Sydney Harbour Bridge opened
2. The Dog on the Tuckerbox pioneer memorial was unveiled near Gundagai, NSW
3. The Australian Broadcasting Commission was established
4. Phar Lap died in California, USA

THE WORLD

1. The Nationalist Socialists (Nazis) become the largest political party in the German Reichstag (parliament)
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat) was elected President of the USA
3. Aldous Huxley (UK) wrote Brave New World

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Whooping cough epidemic resulted in postponement of annual beach picnic
2. The Country Roads Board took over responsibility for the Yarra Glen-Healesville Road (through Tarrawarra)

AUSTRALIA

1. Australian aviator Bert Hinkler died in a plane crash in Italy on a flight from England to Australia
2. Aboriginal population estimated to be at its lowest: 67,000
3. A compulsory referendum in WA voted heavily in favour of seceding from the Commonwealth. The House of Commons (UK) rejected the submission and the issue lapsed.

THE WORLD

1. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany
2. Jewish persecution began in Germany
3. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations
4. Germany abandoned the international disarmament conference
5. US aviator Wiley Post made the first solo round-the-world flight in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 min

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Official unveiling of the memorial tablet placed in Yarra Glen State School in honour of Joseph Furphy
2. Electrical power was connected to Yarra Glen
3. The highest flood on record occurred in late November, early December

AUSTRALIA

1. Qantas Empire Airways (QEA) was formed
2. Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance was dedicated by the Duke of Gloucester
3. Ford and GM-H independently produced the coupe utility

THE WORLD

1. Chemist Tadeus Reichstein (Switz) synthesized Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
2. US naturalist William Beebe descended over 3000 feet (900 metres) in the ocean in his bathysphere
3. Physicists Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie (Fr) discovered artificial radioactivity

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Fire destroyed the Junction Hotel building, corner of Steels Creek Road and Eltham Road

AUSTRALIA

1. Estimated population: 6,755,662
2. The giant cane toad was introduced into Queensland to control a sugar cane pest (the grey backed beetle)
3. Swimming costumes (male and female) in New South Wales were required by regulation to have legs at least 76mm long and to cover the front of the body to the armpits and the back to the waist

THE WORLD

1. Physicist Robert Watson Watt (UK) devised radar
2. Persia changed its name to Iran
3. George Gershwin (US) presented his opera Porgy and Bess

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Possibly the first house fire due to fusing of electrical wiring in Yarra Glen - it destroyed the home of Jim Walters on 19 August
2. A new bridge over the Yarra River, built f steel girders and timber, was officially opened in October

AUSTRALIA

1. Japan banned imports of Australian wool, wheat and flour in retaliation to Australias trade diversion policy
2. Paid annual leave was first included in a federal award (for commercial printers)
3. The ABC set up orchestras in each state capital city

THE WORLD

1. King George V of Britain died and was succeeded by his eldest son Edward VIII. Edward, wishing to marry a divorcee, later abdicated in favour of his brother George VI
2. German troops occupied demilitarised land along the Rhine river, breaking the Treaty of Versailles. Germany and Italy formed an alliance

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Yering Loyal Lodge (MUIOOF) moved from its old building to the Yarra Glen Memorial Hall
2. The Coronation of  King George VI  was marked by the Eltham Shire who organised a basket picnic and sports day at Yarra Glen Recreation Reserve for the children of Yarra Glen, Steels Creek, Dixons Creek and Christmas Hills schools

AUSTRALIA

1. The Commonwealth basic wage was 3 pounds 15 shillings (about $7.50)
2. Polio epidemic began, most severely in Victoria

THE WORLD

1. Howard Aiken (US) began work on digital computers
2. Frank Whittle (US) pioneered jet engines
3. Airwoman Amelia Earhart (US) disappeared over the Pacific Ocean

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Steels Creek won the Cricket Grand Final match against Healesville by 140 runs

THE WORLD

1. All exports of iron ore from Australia were suspended to conserve supplies, the actual reason was to prevent export to Japan
2. C. J. Dennis died aged 61

THE WORLD

1. Adolf Hitler took command of the German armed forces and invaded Austria
2. The Mexican government seized US and British oil holdings
3. George Biro (Hungary) introduced the ball-point pen

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Bush fires in Christmas Hills
2. Eltham Shire Council decided to erect water standpipes in Yarra Glen and Dixons Creek
3. 125mm rain fell in the area during the 25 and 26 February

AUSTRALIA

1. Black Friday in Victoria, 71 lives and more than 1000 houses were lost in bushfires
2. Australia declared war on Germany on 3rd September.

THE WORLD

1. Britain and France declared war on Germany after her invasions of Czechoslovakia & Poland
2. Physicists Otto Hahn (Ger) and Fritz Strassmann (Ger) achieved nuclear fission
3. Swiss chemist Paul Muller developed the insecticide DDT

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Heat wave 6 days over 38 degrees Celsius
2. Victoria Hall was demolished

AUSTRALIA

1. Compulsory 3 month military training began in January 1940 for unmarried men, 21 years old
2. First contingent of the AIF (6th Division) sailed from Sydney to the Middle East
3. TEAL began a flying boat service between Sydney and Auckland
4. Last cable tram ran in Melbourne

THE WORLD

1. World War II continued: Germany invaded Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and France; the Royal Air Force foiled German attempts to bomb Britain into surrender
2.  Pathologist Howard Florey (Australia) developed penicillin as an antibiotic

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. National Bank closed

AUSTRALIA

1. Child endowment was introduced by the Commonwealth government: ten shillings (approx. $1) per fortnight for each child after the first
2. Australian War Memorial, Canberra opened to the public on 11th November
3. A. B. ("Banjo) Paterson died, aged 76

THE WORLD

1. World War II continued: German forces invaded the USSR; Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbour, Hawaii;. Britain and USA declared war on Japan
2. US and British scientists developed the first polyester fibre, Dacron (Terylene)

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. RAAF aircraft crashed near Yarra Glen - five crewmen killed
2. A local group of the Volunteer Defence Corp was formed at Yarra Glen

AUSTRALIA

1. Darwin was bombed, 8 ships were sunk, 240 people killed
2. Japanese submarines in Sydney harbour
3.  US navy repelled a Japanese invasion fleet in the Battle of the Coral Sea
4. Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation produced the Boomerang, the only fighter aircraft designed and built in Australia during World War II

THE WORLD

1. World War II continued: Japanese forces invaded Australia, Dutch East Indies and Burma and threatened India; Singapore fell to the Japanese; 15,000 Australians were taken prisoner; British and American air raids caused great destruction in Germany and occupied France

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Chateau Yering property was purchased by John Sullivan at auction
2. Fire at Steels Creek School destroyed the school buildings

AUSTRALIA

1. Legislation was passed enabling military conscripts to be sent outside Australian territories
2. Butter and household drapery were rationed
3. Sir Arthur Streeton died aged 76

THE WORLD

1. World War II continued: A German army at Stalingrad surrendered to the Russians; German and Italian forces were defeated in North Africa; Italy (now supporting the allies) and Yugoslavia began offensives against Germany
2. Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein (US) produced the musical Oklahoma

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Clearing sale at Lubra Bend (Mr M Towt)

AUSTRALIA

1. 97 merchant ships sunk or damaged in Australian or New Guinea waters
2. Meat rationing began
3. Liberal Party of Australia founded at a conference convened by R. G. Menzies

THE WORLD

1. World War II continued: US, British and allied troops landed in Normandy; Russian forces captured Warsaw, Cracow, Tilsit and Berlin; German leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide
2. Discredited Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by Communist partisans

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Inaugural meeting of the Yarra Glen Progress Association, chaired by J. H. Walker. First President was Rupert Newman
2. Yarra Glen branch of the Country Womens Association was established

AUSTRALIA

1. Howard Florey shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work in developing penicillin
2. Sydney Hobart yacht race was first held; the winner was Rani
3. Estimated population of Australia 7,430,197

THE WORLD

1. World War II ended; May 8th was declared Victory Day
2. Atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima (6th August) and Nagasaki (9th August)
3. The Pacific war ended when Japan surrendered

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Welcome Home ceremonies for returned servicemen were held at the Memorial Hall

AUSTRALIA

1. Broadcasts of the proceedings of federal parliament began
2. Federal government approved a proposal to set up a guided-missile range in Australia as a joint venture with the UK
3. Albury, NSW, was proclaimed a city

THE WORLD

1. Albania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia adopted Communist governments
2. The Nuremburg Tribunal passed death sentences on 12 Nazis for war crimes
3. Juan Peron became president of Argentina

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Census population: 362

AUSTRALIA

1. The Australian Broadcasting Commission began as an independent radio service
2. Sugar rationing ended
3. First visit to Australia of an Indian cricket team

THE WORLD

1. India was partitioned into the dominion of India (Hindu) and the dominion of Pakistan (Muslim)
2. A shepherd boy discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran, Jordan
3. Burma and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) became independent dominions

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Commemoration service and dedication of Memorial Avenue in Rudolph Street (Anzac Ave)

AUSTRALIA

1. Migrant intaket reached 20,000 a year
2. First Holden motor car came off the production line. Cost was 760 pounds (about $1620)
3. Commonwealth pharmaceutical benefits became available

THE WORLD

1. Indian religious leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic
2. Jews proclaimed the State of Israel. It was immediately recognised by the USA
3. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley (US) invented the transistor

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. New tennis courts were opened at the river reserve; a bunk-house was moved from the former Yarra Flats Hotel to become the club house

AUSTRALIA

1. Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority was established by an Act of Parliament
2. Petrol rationing ended
3. A poliomyelitis epidemic occurred in most states

THE WORLD

1. Communist forces under Mao Tse-tung seized power in China
2. The USSR ended its blockade of Berlin
3. Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II (US) produced the musical South Pacific

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Steels Creek Progress Association decided to connect to the Yarra Glen telephone exchange

AUSTRALIA

1. Australian military ground forces in Korea went into action
2. Lake Eyre filled with water the first time such an event was observed by Europeans
3. The Federal Government introduced a free milk scheme for schoolchildren

THE WORLD

1. The USSR announced it had an atomic bomb
2. The Korean war began
3. Chinese troops invaded Tibet
4. Explorer Thor Heyerdahl (Nor) published The Koni-Tiki Expedition

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

AUSTRALIA

1. Medical services and pharmaceutical benefits for pensioners were introduced
2. School of the Air commenced
3. Australian Financial Review began publication
4. ANZUS Treaty signed, to come into force April 1952

THE WORLD

1. The first jet airliner was developed in Britain
2. The Colombo Plan, supporting economic development in SE Asia, was established

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Memorial Hall was burnt down
2. The worst floods since 1934 were experienced
3. A new grandstand was built at the Racing Club by Dutch immigrants

AUSTRALIA

1. Development of uranium deposits at Radium Hill, SA
2. Train and bus collision in Boronia killed nine people
3. Britain exploded its first atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands, WA
4. Mervyn Victor Richardson produced the first Victa lawnmower
5. Joan Sutherland made her debut at Covent Garden

THE WORLD

1. USA exploded the first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean
2. Death of British King George VI; succeeded by Queen Elizabeth II
3. Ernest Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea
4. Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot was staged
5. Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap was staged

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Yarra River flooded several times between August and November, leading to cancellation of Race Meeting in November

AUSTRALIA

1. West Australian Petrolium Ltd (WAPET) struck oil near North West Cape, WA
2. Australian Atomic Energy Commission established
3. Royal Commission to inquire into the proposed establishment of television
4. First Redex round-Australia car trial
5. Fluoridation of water supply introduced in Tasmania

THE WORLD

1. Dwight Eisenhower became 34th President of USA
2. Korean War ended
3. Hillary and Norgay made first ascent of Mt Everest
4. Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel Casino Royale

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Scout group was started by Ben Whitwell, Cubs began with Evelyn Smith
2. The Tennis Club was moved to W. J Herbert's land on Rudolph Street (Anzac Avenue)
3. Hubbard's timber mill in Symons Street was burnt down 19 October
4. The Cistercian monks arrived at Tarrawarra and Archbishop Mannix blessed the site for the Notre Dame Abbey on 19 December
   

AUSTRALIA

1. First visit of a reigning monarch to Australia Queen Elizabeth II
2. Vladimir Petrov defected from the USSR embassy and sought asylum in Australia
3. Australia first automatic telephone exchange began operating in Sydney
4. Mawson scientific research station was established in Antarctica

THE WORLD

1. First vertical take-off aircraft was developed in Britain
2. William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies was published

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

AUSTRALIA

THE WORLD

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. Mr. Harold Hokin took over the service garage at 6 Bell Street
2. The new Presbyterian Church Hall was dedicated

AUSTRALIA

1. The Bank of NSW and the ANZ Bank set up in competition with the Commonwealth Savings Bank
2. Poker machines were legalised in NSW clubs
3. An immunization campaign against poliomyelitis began using Salk vaccine
4. The Church of New Faith (Scientology) was introduced from the USA

THE WORLD

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The Dixons Creek Fire Brigade was formed. 

AUSTRALIA

1. Britain conducted the first nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga, WA
2. Joern Utzon won the design competition for the Sydney Opera House
3. Slim Dustys "A Pub With No Beer was awarded Australias first gold record

THE WORLD

1. Harold Macmillan became British Prime Minister
2. Russia launched Sputnik 1, the worlds first unmanned space-craft
3. Egypt and Iran gave women the right to vote

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

1. The East Riding of Eltham Shire (including Steels Creek, Dixons Creek, Yarra Glen, and parts of Christmas.Hills) were transferred to Healesville Shire
2. A caterpillar plague spread through the district
3. Eastern Districts Football League Grand Final East Ringwood 7.11.53 d. Yarra Glen 5.11.41 

AUSTRALIA

1. The administration of Christmas Island was transferred from British Singapore to Australia
2. Herb Elliott ran a mile in the world record time of  3min. 54.5sec.
3. Uluru National Park (Ayers Rock-Mt. Olga), NT, was proclaimed 

THE WORLD

1. General Charles de Gaulle came out of retirement to become French Prime Minister
2. Nikita Krushchev became President of USSR
3. Pope Pius XII died. He was succeeded by Pope John XXIII
4. Stereophonic phonograph recording was developed in Britain

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

AUSTRALIA

1. First major power station of the Snowy Mountains scheme began operating.
2. The National Service training scheme was suspended
3. Jack Brabham won the world motor-racing championship

THE WORLD

1. Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after a two-year guerrilla campaign
2. Tibetans rebelled against occupying Chinese troops. The Dalai Lama escaped to India
3. Christopher Cockerell (UK) invented the hovercraft

YARRA GLEN & DISTRICT

Do you know of a significant event in this year?

AUSTRALIA

1. Estimated population 10,391,920
2. The National Library of Australia, Canberra, was established as an independent institution
3. Neale Fraser won the mens tennis singles championship at Wimbledon

THE WORLD

1. Anti-apartheid demonstrations in South Africa led to the shooting of 67 Africans
2. Leonid Brezhnev became President of the USSR
3. John F. Kennedy (Democrat) was elected President of the USA