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1788 Australia Day: 11 ships of First Fleet from Botany Bay led by Arthur Phillip land in what would become Sydney, Australia. Great Britain establishes the prison colony of New South Wales, the first permanent European settlement on the continent.
1824 September 13 With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the ''Amity'', John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what is now Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, after leaving Sydney.
1883 Sydney Boys High School is founded in Sydney, Australia. It is the first boys public school in Australia.
1899 The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne agrees Australia's capital (Canberra) should be located between Sydney and Melbourne.
1938 Black Sunday at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. 300 swimmers dragged out to sea in three freak waves. 80 lifesavers save all but 5.
1961 The last public tram operates in Sydney, Australia, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network.
1963 CSIRO scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case.
1965 The bodies of two 15 year olds, Christine Sharrock and Marrine Schmidt, are found at Wanda Beach, Sydney (Wanda Beach Murders).
1975 Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.
1977 Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
1978 A bomb explodes outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two garbagemen, a policeman and several others. Many believe that ASIO is responsible.
1979 Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
1984 Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in a bikie shootout between the rival gangs Bandidos and Comancheros, in the Sydney suburb of Milperra.
1986 A low pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres of rain in a day on Sydney.
1991 Strathfield Massacre: (Sydney, Australia) - Taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.
1993 The IOC selects Sydney, Australia to be the site of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
1994 A man fires two blank shots at Charles, Prince of Wales in Sydney, Australia.
1994 Sydney's third runway opens ensuring protests about noise levels.
2000 The 2000 Summer Olympics open in Sydney, Australia.
2004 Riots break out between New South Wales Police and Aboriginal residents of Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
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