Historical place archive

Sydney in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Sydney in Australia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

12 records9 event labels7 people1788โ€“2012

Historical events in Sydney

1788

25 January 1788
Sydney
Arthur Philip ยท Government of Australia

Founds Sydney, becomes Australia Day

1964

5 September 1964
Io Control of Jupiter Radio Emission
Keith Bigg ยท Astronomy

Shows that Io strongly influences the occurrence of Jupiter's decametric radio emission.

1977

1977
INXS
Gary Beers ยท Popular Music

Founder Member of INXS

1977
INXS
Jon Farriss ยท Popular Music

Founder Member of INXS

1977
INXS
Kirk Pengilly ยท Popular Music

Founder Member of INXS

1977
INXS
Michael Hutchence ยท Popular Music

Founder Member of INXS

1984

1984
The Swing
Michael Hutchence ยท Popular Music

INXS release the Album, "The Swing"

1986

1986
Falling Down the Mountain
Michael Hutchence ยท Popular Music

INXS release the Album, "Falling Down the Mountain"

1987

1987
Kick
Michael Hutchence ยท Popular Music

INXS release the Album, "Kick"

1990

1990
X
Michael Hutchence ยท Popular Music

INXS release the Album, "X"

1992

1992
Welcome to Wherever You Are
Michael Hutchence ยท Popular Music

INXS release the Album, "Welcome to Wherever You Are"

2012

2012
Single-Atom Transistor
Michelle Yvonne Simmons ยท Technology

Leads construction of a transistor whose active region is defined at the scale of a single dopant atom, enabling control of individual-electron states.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Australia and Sydney. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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