- 1803 – HMS Investigator arrives in Port Jackson after circumnavigating Australia. On the voyage Matthew Flinders charted the coast and Robert Brown made an extensive collection of the flora of Australia.
- 1838 – 28 Indigenous Australians were killed at the Myall Creek massacre.
- 1925 – Ten people killed in a train derailment at Traveston, Queensland
- 1979 – Seven people die in a fire on the ghost train at Luna Park Sydney.