< Portal:Australia < Anniversaries < May 
Pentridge Prison entrance gates
- 1770 – Having died of tuberculosis on April 30, Forby Sutherland is buried at Kurnell, New South Wales, becoming the first British subject buried in Australia.
- 1802 – Explorer Matthew Flinders becomes the first European to climb the You Yangs, a series of granite ridges above the Werribee Plain in Victoria.
- 1891 – The first May Day marches in Australia are held at Barcaldine, Queensland, in support of a shearers' strike.
- 1946 – The Pilbara strike commences with 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walking off stations in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia.
- 1997 – HM Prison Pentridge (entrance gates pictured) in Coburg, Victoria, the site of the last execution in Australia, closes after 145 years of operation.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.