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| 1862 |
| | The bones of Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills are brought back to Melbourne after the heroic failure of their attempt to cross Australia | |
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| 1870 |
| | Adelaide and Darwin are linked across the entire Australian continent by the Overland Telegraph Line | |
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| 1875 |
| | An outbreak of measles in Fiji, brought to the islands by British visitors, kills a quarter of the population | |
| | Medicine man, Australia Wellcome Library, London
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| 1887 |
| | The Australian soprano Nellie Melba makes her operatic debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Brussels | |
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| 1891 |
| | French artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti and stays in the Pacific islands for most of the rest of his life | |
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| c. 1892 |
| | The French chef Auguste Escoffier creates and names a dessert in honour of the Australian soprano Nellie Melba | |
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| 1895 |
| | Australia has a catchy new song in "Waltzing Matilda", written by Banjo Paterson to music by Christina Macpherson | |
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| 1898 |
| | The Hawaiian islands are made a US territory, five years after American involvement in the overthrow of the ruling dynasty | |
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| 1900 |
| | Australia's Salvation Army produces an ambitious presentation of film and slides in Soldiers of the Cross | |
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| 1901 |
| | Six separate Australian colonies combine to form the independent Commonwealth of Australia | |
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