Long Ago

5 Australian colonies hold referendum to Federate

WA votes to join Federation

Australia becomes a self governing dominion

Australian colonies send troops to Boer War

Bubonic Plague in Sydney

Edmund Barton becomes Australia's first Prime Minister

Old Age Pension introduced in NSW

Outbreak of Boer War

Lord Roberts wipes out main Boer forces

Queen Victoria dies

Oscar Wilde writes "The Importance of Being Earnest

Failure of the Boxer Uprising in China

Marconi sends radio signals across Atlantic

Curzon viceroy in India

Fleming's diode ray invented

Edward VII takes throne

First agricultural tractor in England

Vacuum cleaner patented -England