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Charles La Trobe
- 1851 – Charles La Trobe appointed as first Lieutenant Governor of Victoria.
- 1912 – The first branch of the Commonwealth Bank opens.
- 1940 – The Volunteer Defence Force, composed mainly of World War I veterans, was formed for home defence by the Returned Services League.
- 1977 – Anti-drugs campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, presumed murdered.
- 1995 – The Queensland state election produces a hung Parliament, but with the support of Gladstone-based independent Liz Cunningham the coalition form the government in Queensland.
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