Timeline of Sydney

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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## Pre-Colonial

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Whale carvings in Bondi

* 50,000–45,000 BP – Near Penrith, a far western suburb of Sydney, numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in Cranebrook Terraces gravel sediments dating to this time period; at first when these results were new they were controversial. More recently in 1987 and 2003, dating of the same strata has revised and corroborated these dates.[1]
* 30,000 BP – Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity occurred in and around the Sydney basin, as evidenced by an archaeological dig in Parramatta, in Western Sydney.[2][3] The finds show that the Aboriginal Australians in that region used charcoal, stone tools and possible ancient campfires.[4][5]
* 21,100–17,800 BP – Stone artifact assemblages dating to this time period discovered in Shaws Creek (near Hawkesbury River) and in Blue Mountains. A rock shelter with flakes dating to this period discovered near Nepean River.[6]
* 5,000–7000 BP – The Sydney rock engravings, a form of Australian Aboriginal rock art consisting of carefully drawn images of people, animals, or symbols, date to this time period.[7]
* 4,000–2,000 BC – The first backed stone artifacts developed, such as blades and spears. The stones would drill, scrape, cut and grind material. They were also associated with woodworking.[8]
* 1,000–500 BC – Bone and shell usage dating to this period discovered. They would've been attached to fishing spear prongs, which would mean that multi-pronged fishing spears occurred at this time. The evidence of spear-throwing is suggested by an excavated shell in Balmoral Beach.[9]
* c 500 CE – Likely large tsunami.[10]

## 18th–19th centuries

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Maritime exploration| 1606–1803
Inland exploration| 1813–1860s
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First Fleet| 1788
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Gold Rush and Nationhood| 1851–1900
Australian gold rushes| 1851–1890s
Australian colonies| 1851–1900
Federation| 1901
Early 20th century| 1901–1945
World War I| 1914–1918
Great Depression| 1929–1939
World War II| 1939–1945
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Post-war immigration| 1945–1970s
1967 Referendum| 1967
1975 Constitutional crisis| 1975
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### 1770s–1790s

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* 1770 – Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, in command of HMS Endeavour, sights the east coast of Australia and lands at Kurnell.
* 1779 – Joseph Banks gives evidence supporting a colony in Botany Bay.
* 1783 – James Matra proposes colony in New South Wales.
* 1786 – British government decides to found convict settlement in Botany Bay.
* 1787 – First Fleet of eleven vessels under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth.
* 1788
* Phillip arrives in Botany Bay but moves site of settlement to Sydney Cove.
* French vessels under the command of Lapérouse land in Botany Bay.
* Parramatta founded.
* Convict Henry Kable successfully sues ship's master for stealing his goods on voyage.
* Punitive expedition after killing of two convicts by aboriginal people fails to find any culprits.[11]
* 1789
* Smallpox epidemic kills many of indigenous population.
* Rose Hill Packet built for service on Parramatta River.
* Six marines hanged for theft from government stores.
* Farquhar's comedy 'The Recruiting Officer' performed by convicts.[12]
* 1790
* Phillip speared by Willemering at Manly Cove.
* Second Fleet arrives with many deaths and convicts in poor condition.
* William Dawes creates word-list of Dharug language with the help of Patyegarang.
* Glebe granted as endowment to Church of England.
* 1791
* Successful convict farmer James Ruse granted land at Rosehill.
* Convict station established at Old Toongabbie.
* Mary Bryant and other convicts escape by open boat to Timor.
* Third Fleet arrives with provisions.
* Third Fleet ship Britannia leaves for whaling expedition in the South Seas.
* First convicts arrive from Ireland in the Queen.

Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, 1792

* 1792
* Burial Ground established.
* Visit of first trading vessels, the Philadelphia and Hope from America.[13]
* Phillip returns to England, accompanied by Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne.
* 1793
* John and Elizabeth Macarthur begin building Elizabeth Farm at Rosehill.
* Visit of Malaspina's Spanish exploratory expedition.
* First free settlers arrive on the Bellona.
* First church built.
* Watkin Tench's Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson published in London.
* 1794 – Maurice Margarot and four other radical political prisoners arrive.
* 1795
* Bennelong returns from visit to England.
* Descendants of cattle that had escaped in 1788 found at Cowpastures (Camden).
* First printing press used to print government orders.[14]
* Complex legal case Boston v Laycock over shooting of pig by soldier.[15]
* Initiation ceremony of 15 indigenous youths at Farm Cove.[16]
* 1796
* White population: 4,000.
* Political prisoner Thomas Muir escapes on American ship.
* Bushranger "Black Caesar" shot and killed.
* First theatre opens.[17]
* 1797
* Prospect, a western Sydney suburb, became the boundary between colonists and indigenous Australians. Hostility grew where a state of guerrilla warfare existed between indigenous people and the settler communities at Prospect and Parramatta.[18] The aboriginal people were led by their leader, Pemulwuy, a member of the Bidjigal tribe who occupied the land.[19]
* First windmill.[20]
* First merino sheep brought from Cape of Good Hope by Captain Waterhouse.
* Three survivors of Sydney Cove shipwreck reach Sydney after walking from Gippsland.
* 1798
* First church burns down.
* David Collins' An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales published in London.
* Arrival of London Missionary Society preacher Rowland Hassall.
* 1799 – Five men convicted of murdering two aboriginals on the Hawkesbury but not punished.[21]

### 1800s–1840s

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* 1800 – Hundreds of rebels of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 arrive as convicts.
* 1801
* Female Orphan School first state charitable institution.[22]
* Lieutenant Governor Paterson wounded by John Macarthur in a duel.
* 1802
* Visit of Baudin's French exploratory expedition.
* Matthew Flinders departs Sydney on Investigator for circumnavigation of Australia, accompanied by Bungaree.
* Pemulwuy shot and killed.
* 1803
* Sydney Gazette newspaper begins publication.
* First Vaucluse House built.
* First officially-permitted Catholic masses said by Fr Dixon.
* Masonic meeting broken up by order of the Governor.[23]
* American brig Union stores thousands of sealskins from Bass Strait with Simeon Lord.
* 1804
* Castle Hill convict rebellion
* Fort Phillip construction begins.[24]
* 1805 – first whaling vessels based in Sydney.[25]
* 1806 – Visit of Russian ship Neva en route to Alaska.
* 1807
* Surveyor James Meehan draws detailed plan of Sydney Town.[26]
* Merchant Robert Campbell establishes first shipbuilding yard at Kirribilli.
* 1808 – New South Wales Corps depose Governor Bligh in Rum Rebellion.
* 1810
* Macquarie Street laid out and Hyde Park reserved as a public park.
* First post office opened, with Isaac Nichols postmaster.
* Liverpool founded.
* Maori chief Ruatara stays with Rev Samuel Marsden at Parramatta and prepares mission to New Zealand.
* 1811
* Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum established.
* Mary Reibey inherits and expands the business interests of her husband Thomas Reibey.
* 1813
* Crossing of Blue Mountains opens route from Sydney to west.
* Benevolent Society founded as charity for general purposes.
* First steam engine imported.[27]
* Middles punched out of 40,000 Spanish dollars to create Holey dollar local coinage.
* 1814 – Native Institution established for education of black children.
* 1815 – Sydney connected to inland by Cox's Road over Blue Mountains.
* 1816
* Macquarie revives annual Aboriginal Feast Day at Parramatta.[28]
* Royal Botanic Gardens open.
* Sydney Hospital built.
* Cadmans Cottage built at The Rocks.
* 1817
* Bank of New South Wales established.[29]
* Construction of Fort Macquarie begun on Bennelong Point.
* Surveyor John Oxley departs to explore the Lachlan River.
* 1818
* Macquarie Lighthouse operational.
* Arrival of John Shying, first known Chinese immigrant.

Government House, 1819

* 1819
* Hyde Park Barracks built.
* Design of St James' Church commissioned from Francis Greenway.
* Visit of de Freycinet's French exploratory expedition.
* Land in north-western Sydney granted to aboriginal guides Colebee and Nurragingy.
* 14-year-old aboriginal girl at Parramatta wins first prize in school examinations.[30]
* 1820
* Devonshire Street Cemetery established.
* Deaths from flu epidemic.[31]
* 1821
* First Catholic church, St Mary's, begins construction.
* Philosophical Society (later Royal Society of New South Wales) founded.
* 1822
* Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales founded.
* Bank of New South Wales cashier Francis Williams convicted of embezzling £12,000.[32]
* 1823 – First Sydney Royal Easter Show held.
* 1824
* St James' Church consecrated.
* Supreme Court of New South Wales proclaimed.
* The Australian newspaper begins publication.
* 1825
* New South Wales Legislative Council established in Sydney.
* First known musical composition in Australia, Reichenberg's 'Australian Quadrilles'.[33]
* 1826
* Scots Church opened.
* Eliza Darling establishes the first friendly society, the Female Friendly Society of the Town of Sydney.
* Sydney Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room founded.
* Sydney Dispensary established to provide medicine and outpatient care for the poor.[34]
* Visiting painter Augustus Earle paints portraits of leading citizens.
* 1827 – Australian Museum established.[35]
* 1828
* Thieves steal some £14,000 in Bank of Australia robbery.
* North Head begins use as quarantine station.
* 1831
* Weekly Sydney Herald newspaper begins publication.[36][37]
* The King's School, Parramatta founded.
* Land granted to indigenous woman Maria Lock and her white husband.
* 1833
* Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts founded.[38]
* Randwick Racecourse opened.
* Theatre Royal opened.
* Eight killed in explosion of brig Ann Jameson at King's Wharf.[39]
* 1834
* John Bede Polding appointed first Catholic bishop.
* Markets consolidated at Paddy's Markets site at Haymarket.
* Australian Union Benefit Society formed to support workers in distress.[40]
* Commercial Banking Company of Sydney founded.
* 1835 – Tooth & Co build Kent Brewery at Blackwattle Creek.
* 1836
* Visit of Charles Darwin on voyage of the Beagle.
* First Anglican bishop installed.
* Great North Road completed connecting Sydney to Hunter Valley.
* 1837
* Government House [41] and Botany-Sydney aqueduct[38] built.
* James Mudie's The Felonry of New South Wales defames many leading citizens.
* 1838
* Seven perpetrators of Myall Creek Massacre hanged.
* David Jones (shop) in business.[42]
* Australian Club founded.
* 1839
* Penal establishment for secondary punishment opened on Cockatoo Island.
* First ice imported to Sydney from Boston.[43]
* 1840
* Farmers & Co. in business.[44]
* Visiting Maori chiefs' attempted sale of South Island to W.C. Wentworth and associates prevented by Governor Gipps.[45]
* 1841
* Caroline Chisholm establishes Female Immigrants Home
* Darlinghurst Gaol in operation.
* Scarlet fever epidemic.[46]
* First photograph in Australia.
* Construction begun of Victoria Barracks in Paddington.
* Street gas lights turned on, supplied by Australian Gas Light Company
* 1842
* City incorporated; city council elected.[47]
* Area of city: 11.65 square kilometres (approximate).[48]
* Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney established.
* 1843
* Depth of depression with failures of Bank of Australia and Sydney Banking Company.
* Riot during campaign for first elected Legislative Council.
* 1844 – Hero of Waterloo Hotel built.
* 1846
* Hero's welcome to Ludwig Leichhardt on his return from overland expedition to Port Essington.
* First Australian meat canning plant opened.[49]
* Opening of Pitt Street Congregational Church.
* 1847
* Isaac Nathan's opera Don John of Austria produced at Royal Victoria Theatre.
* Herman Melville's Omoo describes a whaling voyage from Sydney.
* 1848
* House of the Good Shepherd and Sydney Female Refuge founded as women's refuges.[50]
* First shipment of Irish Famine orphans arrives on the Earl Grey.[51]
* 1849
* Arrival of Hashemy, last convict transport.
* Foundation of AMP Society to provide life insurance.

### 1850s–1890s

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* 1850
* University of Sydney established.
* Freeman's Journal newspaper begins publication.
* 1851 – Parliamentarian Stuart Donaldson and explorer Thomas Mitchell fight last known duel in Australia.
* 1852 – University of Sydney appoints first professors, John Woolley, Morris Birkbeck Pell and John Smith.
* 1853 – Manly ferry services begin.
* 1854
* Sydney Cricket Ground opens.
* St Paul's College, University of Sydney founded.[52]
* 1855
* First New South Wales Government Railways train operates from Redfern to Parramatta.
* Sydney Mint established in General Hospital and Dispensary building.
* Stonemasons first workers to win Eight-hour day.
* Lola Montez shocks theatregoers with her "libertinish and indelicate" Spider Dance.[53]
* 1856
* First Pyrmont Bridge built.[54]
* St Philip's Church rebuilt.
* Anglican Moore Theological College opens.
* First Australian medical school established at Sydney University.
* 1857
* Wreck of Dunbar at The Gap kills 121.
* Fitzroy Dock dry dock completed on Cockatoo Island Dockyard.
* St Vincent's Hospital founded by Sisters of Charity.
* St John's College, Sydney University founded.
* Construction of Fort Denison completed.
* Australian Museum opened to the public.
* 1858
* Sydney Observatory built.
* Royal Navy takes over Garden Island for use as naval base.

Sydney University, c. 1880s

* 1859
* Parliamentary electoral districts of East Sydney and West Sydney created.
* Great Hall of the University of Sydney completed.
* 1861
* Thomas Sutcliffe Mort establishes freezing works at Darling Harbour.
* First horse-drawn trams run from Circular Quay to Redfern station.
* Population: 95,000 city and suburbs.[41]
* 1863 – Imprisoned bushranger Captain Thunderbolt escapes from Cockatoo Island by swimming.
* 1865 – St Mary's Cathedral destroyed by fire.
* 1866 – Bridge St building demolished in nitroglycerine explosion.[55]
* 1867
* Measles epidemic kills some 750, mostly young children.[56]
* First burials at Rookwood Cemetery.
* 1868
* Belmore Park opens.
* St Andrew's Cathedral consecrated.[41]
* Prince Alfred survives shooting by Irishman Henry O'Farrell at Clontarf.
* First mention of Granny Smith apple, discovered by Maria Smith at Ryde.[57]
* 1869 – State Government purchases Subscription Library and opens Sydney Free Public Library.
* 1871
* Trades & Labor Council formed as peak union body.
* Sydney Exchange and Academy of Art founded.
* 1872
* Sydney connected to Europe by telegraph.
* Fish market opens in Woolloomooloo.[58]
* Tooheys opens Darling Brewery.[59]
* 1874
* Art Gallery of New South Wales opened.
* Foundling Institution established.
* 1875 – Holtermann panorama of Sydney Harbour photographed.
* 1877 – Waverley Cemetery established near city.
* 1878
* Great Synagogue completed.
* Speakers' Corner established in The Domain.
* Robinson-Finlay wedding takes place.
* 1879
* St Aloysius College, Jesuit school established.
* Sydney Riot of 1879 over unpopular umpiring decision.
* Sydney International Exhibition held; Garden Palace built.
* Art Gallery of New South Wales opens.
* Opera House opens in King Street.
* Dymocks bookseller in business.
* New South Wales Zoological Society founded.[60]
* Royal National Park established south of the city.
* Joseph Conrad's first visit to Sydney.[61]
* 1880
* Jesuit school Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview established on Lane Cove River.
* Children's Hospital opened.
* Wirth's Circus begun.
* 1881
* Population: 237,300 city and suburbs.[41]
* First telephone exchange.[62]
* Coast Hospital (later Prince Henry) for infectious diseases opened at Little Bay.
* 1882
* Sydney Showground opens.
* St Mary's Cathedral consecrated.[41]
* Royal Prince Alfred Hospital opened.
* Garden Palace destroyed by fire.
* Construction of Eveleigh Railway Workshops begun.
* Sydney Technical College formed, incorporating Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.
* Royal Easter Show moves to Moore Park site.
* The Australian Golf Club established.
* 1883
* Main Southern railway line completed to Albury.[63]
* Sydney High School and Sydney Wharf Labourers Union[64] established.
* Sydney University Medical School founded by Professor Anderson Stuart.
* Sydney Cricket Ground hosts third and fourth tests in first test tour in Australia.
* 1885 – Doyles Restaurant at Watsons Bay founded.
* 1886 – Angus & Robertson bookselling partnership formed.
* 1887
* Four hanged in Mount Rennie rape case.
* Parramatta Girls Home opened.
* 1888
* Arrival of Afghan from Hong Kong sparks anti-Chinese demonstrations.[65]
* Centennial Park established to mark centenary of Sydney.
* Louisa Lawson founds The Dawn feminist magazine.
* Charles Conder's paintings Coogee Bay and Departure of the Orient - Circular Quay.Conder, Coogee Bay, 1888
* Intercolonial Rabbit Commission meets to consider schemes for eradication of rabbits.[66]
* 1889
* Sydney Town Hall built.[41]
* Women's College[52] and Sydney Church of England Grammar School founded.
* St Patrick's Seminary, Manly, founded.
* 1890
* Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ installed.[67]
* Julian Ashton Art School established.
* Hotel Metropole opens.
* Charles Kerry photography studio in business.[68]
* 1891
* General Post Office built.
* Population: 399,270 city and suburbs.[41]
* Australia Hotel opens with visit of Sarah Bernhardt.
* Constitutional Convention meets to begin framing constitution for federated Australia.
* Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales founded, with Mary Windeyer president.
* 1892
* Strand Arcade opens.
* GPS (Great Public Schools) Association founded.
* Henry Lawson's short story The Drover's Wife published in The Bulletin.
* The Women's College, University of Sydney opens.
* Suspension Bridge connects Northbridge and Cammeray.
* 1893
* Technological Museum opens.
* Royal Sydney Golf Club founded.
* Baby farmers John and Sarah Makin convicted of murder of infants.
* Arthur Streeton's painting Railway Station, Redfern.
* Socialists led by William Lane set out to found New Australia settlement in Paraguay.
* Women's Hospital, later Crown Street Women's Hospital, opened.

Streeton, Railway Station, Redfern, 1893

* 1894 - Seven Little Australians published.
* 1895
* City Tattersalls Club formed.
* Mark Twain visits Sydney on lecture tour.[69]
* 1896
* Australis motor car manufactured in Leichhardt.
* First Australian film shown at first cinema.
* 1897
* Balmain Colliery dug.
* Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington, constructed.
* Cardinal Moran stands unsuccessfully for election to the Australasian Federal Convention.
* 1898
* Queen Victoria Building constructed.
* Sze Yup Temple built in Glebe.
* Clyde Engineering formed to manufacture railway rolling stock.
* 1899 – Ultimo Power Station commissioned.
* 1900
* Sydney Harbour Trust active.
* Bubonic plague outbreak.[70]
* NSW troops embark for Boer War.

## 20th century

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### 1900s–1940s

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King Street, circa 1900

* 1901
* Inauguration of Commonwealth of Australia at Centennial Park, with Sydney lawyer Edmund Barton first prime minister.
* Royal Australian Historical Society founded.
* Population: 112,137 city; 369,693 suburbs.[41]
* Fire destroys Anthony Hordern & Sons' department store with five lives lost.
* Haberfield subdivided to create garden suburb of Federation houses.
* 1902
* Second Pyrmont Bridge built.
* Fort Macquarie Tram Depot opened on Bennelong Point.
* Sayers, Allport & Potter market successful phosphorus-based rabbit poison.
* 1903
* Glebe Island Bridge and Her Majesty's Theatre[71][72] rebuilt.
* Bronte Surf Club became the first Surf Club as noted in Bronte by S. Vesper in his history of the Bronte Surf Club
* Death of prominent Chinese businessman Quong Tart after bashing.
* 1904 – Electric street lighting installed.[72]
* 1905
* Anthony Hordern & Sons's Palace Emporium in business.
* Dental Hospital founded.
* 1906
* Central railway station opens.
* Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club active.[72]
* 1907
* 20 October: Bathing costume protests.
* Wylie's Baths built at Coogee.
* Melbourne–Sydney telephone begins operating.[72]
* Bequest of David Scott Mitchell leaves major collection of Australiana to State Library of New South Wales.
* 1908
* Camperdown becomes part of city.[48]
* New South Wales Rugby League Premiership formed
* Burns-Johnson world heavyweight boxing title fight at Sydney Stadium.
* Visit of American Great White Fleet.
* 1909
* City of Sydney Library established.
* Mark Foy's emporium opened on Liverpool Street.
* First powered flight in Australia at Victoria Park Racecourse, Zetland.
* Death of Saint Mary MacKillop at North Sydney.
* First section of Long Bay Jail opened.
* 1910
* The Sun newspaper begins publication.[73]
* Escapologist Harry Houdini demonstrates his skills.[74]
* 1912
* Natural living advocate William Chidley declared insane and confined in Callan Park Hospital.
* Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie win 100m gold and silver in the first Olympics to have women's swimming.
* Construction begins of garden suburb of public housing at Daceyville.
* Culwulla Chambers built.[72]
* 1913
* Eileen O'Connor founds Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor to assist the sick poor at home.
* Arrival of first Royal Australian Navy fleet.[75]
* Sydney quarantined in smallpox epidemic.[76]
* Eryldene, Gordon house and garden designed for E.G. Waterhouse by William Hardy Wilson.
* 1914
* Anzacs train at Kensington Racecourse before being sent to Gallipoli.
* Maurice Guillaux makes first airmail flight from Melbourne to Sydney.
* 1915
* Sydney Conservatorium of Music established.[52]
* Crowds welcome Cooee March from Gilgandra with 263 recruits.
* 1916
* First Anzac Day commemoration in Sydney.[77]
* 14 February: Liverpool riot of 1916.
* Trial and conviction of the Sydney Twelve radicals.
* Taronga Zoo opens.
* Art in Australia magazine begins publication.
* Middleweight boxer Les Darcy wins Australian heavyweight championship at Sydney Stadium.
* James Hardie begins asbestos manufacture at Camellia.
* Sydney Camera Circle formed to promote a Pictorialist style of photography.
* First issue of School Magazine.
* 1917
* General strike begins with walkouts of Sydney railway workers.
* J.G. Park photography studio in business (approximate date).[68]
* White Bay Power Station operational.
* 1918
* Crowds celebrate Armistice Day.[78]
* Publication of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie introduces May Gibbs' cartoon gumnut babies.
* Norman Lindsay's children's book The Magic Pudding published.
* 1919
* Some 3,500 die in Spanish Flu epidemic.[79]
* Elioth Gruner's Spring Frost painted at Emu Plains.
* 1920
* Communist Party of Australia formed.
* 18 February: World's "first" swimsuit competition (beauty contest) held in Sydney.[37]
* Hurlstone Park Choral Society formed.
* The Home luxury magazine first published.
* Transgender Eugene Falleni convicted of murder of wife.
* Enthusiastic welcome for visit of Prince of Wales.[80]
* 1921
* First award of Archibald Prize for portraiture.
* Bronte Splashers Winter Swimming Club was formed becoming the first Winter Swimming Club in Australia.
* First appearance of cartoonist Jimmy Bancks' character Ginger Meggs.
* Supreme Court case Partridge v. Dwyer ignites sectarian conflict over escaped nun Sister Liguori.
* 1922
* State funeral for Henry Lawson.
* D.H. Lawrence's brief visit results in novel Kangaroo set in extreme Right and Left politics in Sydney.
* HMAS Adelaide completed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard after seven years building.
* 1923 – ABC radio station 2BL begins broadcasting.
* 1924
* Sydney Airport begins operating.
* Hordern Pavilion built.
* Architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin move to Castlecrag and begin designing the suburb.
* Star Amphitheatre completed at Balmoral Beach.
* HMAS Australia scuttled off Sydney Heads under terms of disarmament treaty.
* First Spit Bridge opened.
* Knox Grammar School established.
* Woolworths opens first variety store.
* 1925
* Poet Christopher Brennan dismissed by Sydney University for divorce and drunkenness.
* First commercial radio station, 2UE, begins broadcasting.
* 1926
* Electric train services begin
* Radio station 2GB begins broadcasting.
* Anna Pavlova dances at Her Majesty's Theatre.[81]
* Patent for Weet-Bix cereal registered.
* 1927
* Sydney Cenotaph erected.
* Hyde Park completed.
* Greycliffe ferry disaster on Sydney Harbour kills 40.
* Darrell Lea chocolate shop established in Haymarket.
* David Jones' Elizabeth Street department store opens.
* Aeroplane Jelly launched.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

* 1928
* Capitol Theatre opens.
* Coogee Pleasure Pier opens.[82]
* Bondi Surf Pavilion and Balmoral Bathers Pavilion built.
* Government Savings Bank Building constructed.[83]
* Catholic Eucharistic Congress witnessed by 500,000.[84]
* Charles Kingsford Smith leaves for first Trans-Tasman flight.
* Alexander MacRae's line of swimwear renamed Speedos.
* Sydney University Quad jacaranda planted.

The Grace Building, 1930, by Max Dupain

* 1929
* State Theatre opens.[83]
* Sun Building constructed.[83]
* Bunnerong Power Station begins operation.
* Bondi Icebergs winter swimming club founded.
* 1930
* Modern Art Centre opens.[85]
* Grace Building constructed in Art Deco style.
* Doris Fitton founds Independent Theatre.
* Grace Cossington Smith's painting The Bridge in Curve shows the Harbour Bridge under construction.
* 1931 – Collapse of Government Savings Bank and amalgamation with Commonwealth Bank.[86]

Aerial view of Sydney, 1932

* 1932
* Sydney Harbour Bridge opened, with horseman de Groot cutting ribbon ahead of the premier.
* Town Hall railway station, and Wynyard railway station opened.
* Governor Sir Philip Game dismisses Premier Jack Lang in constitutional crisis.
* Bodyline bowling of Harold Larwood secures England victory in first test match.
* Dymocks building constructed.[83]
* Archibald Fountain unveiled.
* Arthur Stace begins decades of chalking "Eternity" on Sydney pavements.
* Edward Hallstrom's refrigerator factory opens in Willoughby.
* Newly-formed Australian Broadcasting Commission establishes National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra (later Sydney Symphony Orchestra).
* 1933
* Australian Women's Weekly begins publication.
* Population: city and suburbs; 1,235,267 [87]
* Australia's first traffic lights installed at corner of Market and Kent streets.[88]
* 1934
* Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park opened.
* Communist Egon Kisch given test in Scottish Gaelic in attempt to exclude him from Australia.
* Christina Stead's novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney portrays struggles of poor intellectuals.
* Comedian Roy Rene's only film, Strike Me Lucky made by Ken G. Hall.
* 1935
* Luna Park and Astoria Theatre[89] open.
* Shark Arm case when human arm found in captured shark.
* Shark Menace Advisory Committee recommends meshing.[90]
* Olive Cotton's photograph Tea cup ballet.
* 1936
* First Black and White charity ball.[91]
* Ford car factory opened at Homebush West.
* Harry's Cafe de Wheels pie cart opens in Woolloomooloo.
* Arrival of new HMAS Sydney.

Martin Place in 1939, prior to pedestrianisation

* 1937 – Enoch Powell appointed Professor of Greek at Sydney University.
* 1938
* City hosts 1938 British Empire Games.
* Five dead when large waves wash away sandbar at Bondi Beach.[92]
* Aboriginal Day of Mourning protests sesquicentennial celebrations of settlement.
* 19 die in capsize of ferry Rodney.
* Rose Bay Flying Boat Base opened with flights to London.
* Ken G. Hall's comedy Dad and Dave Come to Town includes feature film debut of Peter Finch.
* 1939
* AWA Tower built.[83]
* Last execution in NSW.
* Prime Minister Joseph Lyons dies at St Vincent's Hospital.
* 1940
* St James Theatre opens.[89]
* Charles Chauvel movie Forty Thousand Horsemen filmed at Bondi and Cronulla.
* Dunera arrives after horror voyage with "enemy aliens".
* Christina Stead's novel The Man Who Loved Children describes growing up with a controlling paterfamilias.
* 1941
* Daily Mirror newspaper begins publication.[36]
* Queen Mary departs Sydney with troops for Middle East.[93]
* Eleanor Dark's novel The Timeless Land set in the first years of Sydney.

HMAS Kuttabul after sinking by Japanese midget submarine, Garden Island, 1942

* 1942
* Anti-submarine defences built.
* May–June: Attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines.
* Bankstown Bunker constructed as Air Defence HQ.
* Yaralla Military Hospital (later Concord Repatriation General Hospital) opened.
* 1943
* Sydney University philosopher John Anderson censured by State Parliament for anti-religious views.
* William Dobell's Archibald Prize-winning portrait Mr Joshua Smith subject of legal case as to whether it was a caricature.
* Kylie Tennant's novel Ride on Stranger describes a country girl making her way in the city.
* 1944 – Sali Herman's painting McElhone Stairs wins Wynne Prize.
* 1945
* Celebration of VJ Day.[94]
* First Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
* 1946
* Sydney Symphony Orchestra active.
* Norman Gilroy named first Australian-born cardinal.
* Criminal Darcy Dugan makes first of several escapes from custody.
* 1947
* Population: 95,852 city; 1,484,434 metro.[52]
* Qantas operates Sydney-London Kangaroo Route.
* New Year's Day hailstorm causes massive damage.
* Don Bradman scores 100th first-class century.
* Australian School of Pacific Administration moved to Middle Head.
* Russell Drysdale's painting Sofala wins Wynne Prize.
* 1948
* Visit of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.[95]
* Communist-Catholic debate attracts 30,000 to Sydney Stadium.[96]
* Ruth Park's novel The Harp in the South describes an inner-Sydney poor Irish community.
* Qantas connects Australia to Africa via air for first time via Sydney-Johannesburg Wallaby Route.[97][98]
* 1949
* Alexandria, Darlington, Erskineville, Glebe, Newtown, Paddington, Redfern, and Waterloo become part of the city.[48]
* University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) established.
* Australia's first computer, CSIRAC, constructed at CSIRO Radiophysics Lab.
* Security forces seize documents in raid on Communist headquarters Marx House.[99]
* Broadcast of first of 5795 episodes of radio serial Blue Hills.
* Villawood Migrant Hostel built.
* Ingrid Bergman stars in Alfred Hitchcock's film Under Capricorn, set in 1830s Sydney.

### 1950s–1990s

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* 1950
* Nuffield Australia opens car assembly plant at Zetland.
* June Dally-Watkins opens school of deportment and etiquette.
* 1951 - Cumberland Plan adopted for green belt around city.
* 1952
* Berala train crash kills 10.
* Camellia expert Professor E.G. Waterhouse founds Camellia Research Society.
* 1953
* Sydney Sun-Herald newspaper in publication.[73]
* Racehorse trainer Tommy J. Smith wins the first of 33 consecutive Sydney Trainers' Premierships.

Queen Elizabeth II alighting at Farm Cove, 1954

*     * Rugby league commentator Frank Hyde broadcasts the first of 33 consecutive grand finals on 2SM.
* Fictionalised autobiography Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid published.
* Caroline Grills convicted of murdering relatives with thallium rat poison.
* 100,000 attend Fr Peyton's rosary crusade at Sydney Cricket Ground.[100]

Mrs Petrov at Sydney Airport, 1954

* 1954
* Queen Elizabeth II makes first royal visit.[101]
* Dramatic photo of Mrs Petrov being dragged across tarmac of Sydney Airport sparks Petrov Affair.
* Model Shirley Beiger acquitted of murder after shooting her lover dead outside Chequers nightclub.[102]
* Sydney Film Festival begins.
* 1955 – Public outcry against Rosaleen Norton, the "Witch of Kings Cross", for alleged Satanism.
* 1956
* ATN Channel 7 television begins broadcasting.[73]
* Circular Quay railway station opened marking the completion of the City Circle.
* St George rugby league club wins the first of 11 consecutive premierships.
* Kurnell Refinery built.
* Kirribilli House begins use as Prime Ministerial residence.
* Anti-communist cultural magazine Quadrant founded.
* James Dibble begins 27 years as ABC TV newsreader.
* Conservatorium director Eugene Goossens resigns after pornography found at Airport.
* First drive-in theatres opened.
* 1957
* Jørn Utzon wins competition to design Sydney Opera House.
* John Laws joins 2UE, beginning 60-year Sydney radio career.
* 1958
* Cahill Expressway completed.
* National Institute of Dramatic Art founded.
* First Australian nuclear reactor opened at Lucas Heights.
* Cyril Pearl's Wild Men of Sydney describes corruption in colonial times.
* Betty Archdale becomes headmistress of Abbotsleigh girls' school, known for progressive reforms.
* Professor Harry Messel founds International Science School.
* 1959
* Joe Cahill dies in office after seven years as premier.
* 150,000 attend evangelist Billy Graham's last appearance at Sydney Showground.[103]
* D'Arcy Niland's novel The Big Smoke tells stories of early twentieth-century Sydney.
* Ice skating rink built at Prince Alfred Park.[104]
* Broughton Knox becomes principal of Moore Theological College.
* 1960
* Murder of Graeme Thorne solved with scientific methods.
* Overseas Passenger Terminal opens at Circular Quay.
* Completion of Warragamba Dam ensures reliable water supply to Sydney.
* Paul Robeson sings Ol' Man River to construction workers on Opera House site.[105]
* Clontarf beach washed away by Chilean tsunami.[106]
* 1961
* Last Trams in Sydney operate.
* Dr William McBride reveals thalidomide is causing birth defects.
* Demolition of Subiaco colonial home, Rydalmere, prompts moves to preserve architectural heritage.[107]
* Tania Verstak first immigrant Miss Australia.
* Dedication of Baha'i Temple.
* El Alamein Fountain opened at Kings Cross.
* 1962
* First performance by Australian Ballet at Her Majesty's Theatre.
* Shows by visiting comedian Lenny Bruce cancelled for obscenity.[108]
* AMP Building opens, then the tallest building in Australia.
* Blues Point Tower completed.
* 1963
* Mysterious deaths of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler.
* Lifeline telephone counselling service launched by Rev Alan Walker.
* Harry Triguboff founds Meriton property development company.
* Last fatal shark attack in Sydney Harbour.
* 1964
* Gladesville Bridge opened.
* Macquarie University established.
* Dawn Fraser returns from Tokyo Olympics with third consecutive women's 100m freestyle gold medal.
* Rev Ted Noffs establishes Wayside Chapel near Kings Cross.
* The Beatles perform at Sydney Stadium.[109]
* The Mavis Bramston Show brings satirical sketch comedy to Australian TV.
* First of Charmian Clift's five years of essays in Sydney Morning Herald.
* James Hardie Industries ignores warning on the extreme health risks of asbestos manufacture.[110]
* Paddington Society founded.[111]
* Colourful academic Fred May appointed foundation professor of Italian at Sydney University.
* 1965
* Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in J.C. Williamson's opera tour.[112]
* Controversy over failure of Sydney University to appoint Dr Knopfelmacher to post in political philosophy.
* Roselands Shopping Centre opens.
* Wanda Beach Murders.
* Sydney Maritime Museum founded.
* Hydrofoil ferry service to Manly begins.
* 1966
* Attempted assassination of Arthur Calwell, Federal opposition leader, in Mosman.
* Protestors disrupt motorcade of President Lyndon Johnson in Oxford Street.[113]
* Significant changes to Opera House design after Jørn Utzon's resignation.
* Movie comedy They're a Weird Mob portrays tensions between Italian immigrants and Irish-Australians.
* Children's TV series Play School begins broadcasting.
* Wentworth Hotel opens.
* Bee Gees achieve first major hit

Sydney Opera House under construction, 1968

* 1967
* Australia Square hi-rise built.
* Thomas Keneally wins Miles Franklin Award for novel Bring Larks and Heroes set in early Sydney.
* Bourbon & Beefsteak pub opens in Kings Cross, catering to American servicemen on leave from Vietnam.
* HMAS Platypus, Neutral Bay commissioned as base for Oberon-class submarines.
* 1968
* South Sydney Municipal Council created.[48]
* Sydney Region Outline Plan envisages dispersed city centres.
* Sister city relationship established with San Francisco, USA.[114]
* Skippy the Bush Kangaroo TV series begins broadcast.
* Glenfield siege ends with wedding of gunman and hostage.
* D.M. Armstrong's A Materialist Theory of the Mind defends philosophical theory that the mind is identical with the brain.
* Entrepreneur Dick Smith founds Dick Smith Car Radios, later Dick Smith Electronics.
* Leonie Kramer appointed Professor of Australian Literature at Sydney University.
* 1969
* Large-scale artist Christo creates Wrapped Coast by wrapping part of Little Bay in plastic.
* Crash landing of Boeing 707 after bird strike on takeoff, no injuries.[115]
* 1970
* Pope Paul VI makes first papal visit.
* Nimrod Theatre founded.
* Aboriginal Legal Service founded in Redfern.
* Many arrests in Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations.
* 1971
* City of Sydney Strategic Plan created.[116]
* Green Bans led by Jack Mundey begin with campaign to save Kellys Bush in Hunters Hill.
* Protests against Springbok rugby union tour.
* First City2Surf fun run and race.
* First McDonald's in Australia opens at Yagoona.[117]
* Qantas pays $500,000 ransom in bomb hoax.
* Ken Rosewall and Margaret Court champions in the last Australia Open tennis tournament held at White City.
* 1972
* Construction workers take over the Sydney Opera House.
* Aboriginal Medical Service established in Redfern.[72]
* Gough Whitlam's Blacktown speech launches successful Labor It's Time federal election campaign.
* Soap opera Number 96 stretches boundaries of what can be shown on TV.
* Cleo magazine for young women founded with Ita Buttrose as editor.
* Fashion designer Carla Zampatti opens first boutique in Surry Hills.
* Rabbi Apple begins 33-year term as Senior Rabbi of Great Synagogue.

Patrick White, 1973

* 1973
* Sydney Opera House opens.
* Patrick White awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
* Political disturbances in University of Sydney Philosophy Department lead to strike and split in department.[118]
* Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady completed in Redfern.
* 1974
* Elsie Women's Refuge established in Glebe.
* Federal government buys Glebe Estate to begin urban renewal.
* Bob Hawke and Frank Sinatra negotiate deal for Sinatra to continue controversial tour.[119]
* 1975
* Disappearance of activist Juanita Nielsen.
* Savoy Hotel fire kills 15.
* Preterm abortion clinic burns down in suspicious circumstances.
* Development begins of Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System.
* Triple J radio begins broadcasting.
* Radio Station 2EA (later SBS Radio) begins broadcasts in multiple languages.
* Premiere of TV comedy The Norman Gunston show with Garry McDonald.
* Gough Whitlam meets Iraqi agents at Blues Point Tower seeking money for electioneering.[120]
* Old Sydney Town theme park opened at Somersby.
* 1976
* Sydney New Year's Eve firework display launched.
* Graeme Murphy appointed artistic director of Dance Company of NSW, later Sydney Dance Company.
* Gas supply converted to natural gas with opening of Moomba to Sydney Pipeline.

Aftermath of Granville train disaster, 1977

* 1977
* Granville train disaster kills 84.
* Sydney Festival begins.
* Harry Seidler-designed MLC Centre opens.
* First Sydney International Piano Competition.
* Lakemba Mosque completed.
* 1978
* First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
* Painter Brett Whiteley wins Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes in same year.
* Hilton bombing kills three.
* Marriage of former Sydney schoolgirl Marie-Christine von Reibnitz to Prince Michael of Kent.
* Westmead Hospital opens.
* TV miniseries Against the Wind depicts life in early Sydney.
* 1979
* 9 June: 1979 Sydney Ghost Train fire.
* Martin Place pedestrianised.
* Eastern Suburbs railway line opens.
* Sydney Theatre Company founded.
* Teen novel Puberty Blues describes surfing culture in Sutherland Shire.
* Racing identity and crime figure George Freeman survives being shot in the neck.
* Racehorse Kingston Town wins first of 21 Sydney races from 21 starts.
* Liliana Gasinskaya defects from Russian cruise ship in red bikini.
* 1980
* Collapse of Nugan Hand Bank.
* Publication of the first of Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy detective novels.
* Clive James's memoir Unreliable Memoirs describes his Sydney childhood and youth.
* CPAP machine for sleep apnea developed by Colin Sullivan.
* SBS Television begins broadcasts in multiple languages from studios in Milsons Point.
* Crash at Sydney Airport kills 13.
* Family Court judge David Opas shot dead outside his Woollahra home.
* Bill Collins' Golden Years of Hollywood begins national broadcast on Network 10.
* 1981
* Sydney Tower opened.
* Drug dealer Warren Lanfranchi shot dead by policeman Roger Rogerson in Chippendale.
* Croatian Six convicted of conspiracy to bomb several targets.
* Judy Davis/Bryan Brown movie Winter of Our Dreams portrays inner-Sydney life.
* First of 1088 episodes of TV series A Country Practice.
* Reverend Fred Nile begins 42 years in Legislative Council defending conservative Christian values.
* 1982
* Bombings of Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club.
* First Harvey Norman retail store opened at Auburn.
* 1983
* Hillsong Church established in Baulkham Hills.
* Glenn Murcutt-designed Berowra Waters Inn restaurant opened by Gay and Tony Bilson.
* Golfer Jack Newton loses right arm after walking into propeller at Sydney Airport.
* Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti perform at Opera House benefit concert.
* Movie Careful, He Might Hear You adapts Sumner Locke Elliott's novel of Sydney childhood.
* Nicole Kidman begins film career in Bush Christmas and BMX Bandits.
* Carols in the Domain Christmas concert begun.
* Sydney Entertainment Centre opened in Haymarket.
* 1984
* Victor Chang performs Australia's first successful heart transplant at St Vincent's Hospital.
* Judge's wife killed in Family Court of Australia attacks.
* Seven killed in Milperra massacre bikie shootout.
* Bank robbery and hostage crisis in George Street.
* Elton John married.[121]
* 1985
* Parliament House rebuilt.
* Granny Smith Festival begins in Eastwood.
* Financial services firm Hill Samuel becomes Macquarie Bank.
* Chief Stipendiary Magistrate Murray Farquhar jailed for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
* Suicide of Dr Harry Bailey while under investigation for deep sleep therapy at Chelmsford Hospital.
* Wonderland theme park opened at Eastern Creek.
* 1986
* Body of Sallie-Anne Huckstepp found in Centennial Park.
* Anita Cobby murder.
* Disappearance and killing of nine-year-old Samantha Knight.
* Playing Beatie Bow movie dramatises Ruth Park's young adult novel of time travel in inner Sydney.
* 1987
* University of Sydney's Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific established.[122]
* Sydney Kings men's basketball team formed.
* 1988
* Australian Bicentenary events staged including First Fleet Re-enactment on Sydney Harbour.
* Sydney Monorail opens
* University of Technology, Sydney and University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies[122] established.
* Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre and Powerhouse Museum open.
* Kay Cottee completes first women's solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation of world.
* Peter Sculthorpe's composition Kakadu completed.
* Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay and Mount Annan Botanic Garden open near city.
* New South Wales Institute of Technology becomes University of Technology Sydney.
* Murder of Scott Johnson, most prominent of gay gang murders.
* Murder of Janine Balding.
* 1989
* South Sydney City Council established.[48]
* Area of city: 6.19 square kilometres.[48]
* Neil Perry opens Rockpool restaurant.
* Clean Up Sydney Harbour event initiates Ian Kiernan's Clean Up Australia campaign.
* St James Ethics Centre (later The Ethics Centre) founded.
* Three colleges federate to form University of Western Sydney (later Western Sydney University).
* Bangarra Dance Theatre formed.

Sydney hosts the 2000 Summer Olympics.

* 1990
* Sydney Children's Choir founded.
* Bell Shakespeare company founded by actor John Bell.
* Arrest of "Granny Killer" John Wayne Glover.
* Media tycoon Kerry Packer revived after severe heart attack while playing polo at Warwick Farm.
* Eureka Prizes for science inaugurated.
* 1991
* Sydney Park established.
* Heart surgeon Victor Chang shot dead in Mosman.
* Eight dead in Strathfield massacre.
* Arson attacks on five synagogues.
* Museum of Contemporary Art opens in former Maritime Services Board building.
* Fr Chris Riley founds Youth Off The Streets charity.
* James Ruse Agricultural High School begins run of 32 consecutive years as top-ranked school in Higher School Certificate.
* Colleges at Strathfield and North Sydney amalgamate with interstate colleges to form Australian Catholic University.
* 1992
* Sydney Harbour Tunnel opened.
* Sydney Jewish Museum opened.
* Melina Marchetta's novel Looking for Alibrandi explores growing up in multicultural inner Sydney.
* Paul Keating's Redfern Park Speech calls for new approaches to indigenous policy.
* Fred Hollows Foundation set up to continue Fred Hollows' work on eye care in third world countries and remote Australia.
* Legal action by some Sydney Anglicans fails to prevent ordination of women elsewhere.
* First Big Day Out music festival.
* 1993
* Sydney makes successful bid for 2000 Olympics.
* South Sydney Heritage Society founded.[123]
* Offset Alpine fire raises suspicions of arson.
* Liberal Presbyterian minister Peter Cameron convicted of heresy by church court.
* 1994
* Sydney International Aquatic Centre opens.
* Politician John Newman assassinated in Cabramatta.
* January bushfires penetrate several suburbs.
* Two blank shots fired at Prince Charles by David Kang at Darling Harbour.
* Peter Coleman's Memoirs of a Slow Learner describes literary life of the 1950s.
* Wedding scene of movie Muriel's Wedding filmed at St Mark's Church, Darling Point.
* 1995
* Anzac Bridge opens.
* Pope John Paul II beatifies Mary MacKillop at Randwick Racecourse.
* Museum of Sydney opens.
* Sydney's first legal casino opens.
* 5T gang's domination of Cabramatta murders and drug trade declines with assassination of its leaders.
* Death of Anna Wood from ecstasy tablet.
* 1996
* Princess Diana attends Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Royal Ball.[124]
* CSIRO patents successful fast wifi technology developed by John O'Sullivan and other scientists.
* New Prime Minister John Howard makes Kirribilli House rather than The Lodge in Canberra his principal residence.[125]
* Rats in the Ranks documentary portrays machinations in Leichhardt Council.
* 1997
* Wood Royal Commission finds widespread corruption in NSW Police Force.
* The Star, Sydney casino opens.
* First Sydney Writers' Festival.
* First Sculpture by the Sea outdoor sculpture exhibition at Bondi Beach.
* Inner West Light Rail opens between Central and Wentworth Park, signalling the return of trams to Sydney after 36 years.
* Suicide of singer Michael Hutchence at Double Bay.
* 1998
* Sydney to Hobart Yacht race leaves Harbour despite storm warning, six yachtsmen killed.
* Filming of The Matrix at Fox Studios and city locations.
* March: State Hockey Centre opens.
* BridgeClimb Sydney commences.
* Water crisis over fears of contamination with pathogens.
* Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority formed to coordinate state-owned Harbour properties.

Cathy Freeman prepares for the 400m final at the Sydney Olympics

* 1999
* 6 March: Stadium Australia opens.
* 4 October: Sydney Super Dome opens.
* 8 December: Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre opens.
* City Recital Hall opens.
* Lucy Dudko enables escape of prisoner from Silverwater Gaol in hijacked helicopter.
* Hailstorm causes damage of around A$2.3bn.
* John Birmingham's Leviathan explores the dark side of Sydney history.
* 2000
* September: City hosts 2000 Summer Olympics and 2000 Summer Paralympics.
* City of Sydney Historical Association founded.[126]
* Spires of St Mary's Cathedral completed.
* Mary Donaldson meets her future husband, Prince Frederik of Denmark, at the Slip Inn.
* Moulin Rouge! filmed at Fox Studios.
* Wave of ethnically-motivated gang rapes in Western Sydney.

St Mary's Cathedral with completed spires

## 21st century

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### 2000s

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* 2001
* Sydney Harbour Federation Trust established.
* Population: 4,128,272.
* Drama film Lantana portrays complex relationships in Sydney suburbia.
* Escape of 40 detainees from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre.
* 2002
* Glenn Murcutt awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize.
* Short+Sweet 10-minute play festival founded.
* 2003
* Lowy Institute for International Policy headquartered in city.[122]
* Archbishop Pell appointed cardinal.
* Prominent stockbroker Rene Rivkin found guilty of insider trading.
* Animated movie Finding Nemo features fish escaping Sydney dentist.
* First season of home renovation reality TV series The Block filmed at Bondi.
* Inga Clendinnen's Dancing with Strangers examines the indigenous-colonist encounter in the first years of Sydney.
* ICAC investigation reveals large-scale theft of Australian Museum specimens.
* 2004
* 14 February: 2004 Redfern riots.
* City of South Sydney becomes part of City of Sydney.
* Clover Moore begins record-length term as Lord Mayor of Sydney.
* Judicial inquiry criticises James Hardie for evading compensation to victims of asbestos.
* 2005
* December: 2005 Cronulla riots occur near city.
* Macquarie Fields riots.
* Cross City Tunnel opens.
* Businessman Rodney Adler jailed for misconduct related to the collapse of HIH Insurance.
* Sydney Swans Australian Rules football team win AFL Grand Final.
* Bankstown Bites Food Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival begin.
* Nuix data searching software company incorporated.
* 2006
* Liberal arts college Campion College opens at Toongabbie.
* University of Notre Dame Australia opens Sydney campus.
* Bondi Rescue TV series first broadcast.
* Ursula Dubosarsky's children's book The Red Shoe portrays growing up in 1950s Sydney.
* Don Ritchie awarded OAM for dissuading many from committing suicide at The Gap.
* Controversy over Sheikh Hilaly comparing women to uncovered meat.
* 2007
* Tight security for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum breached by The Chaser's fake Canadian motorcade.
* Carriageworks arts precinct opened at former Eveleigh Carriage Workshops site.
* Sydney Underground Film Festival begins.
* 2008
* Pope Benedict XVI visits for World Youth Day 2008.
* Exhibition of Bill Henson photographs at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery cancelled after police raid.
* 2009
* Dictionary of Sydney launched online.
* Institute for Economics and Peace headquartered in city.
* Festival of Dangerous Ideas begins.
* First Vivid Sydney light festival
* Holsworthy Barracks terror plot uncovered.
* Contract killing of Michael McGurk in Cremorne.
* Lin family murders in Epping.

### 2010s

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A Sydney Metro train

* 2010
* Sydney Desalination Plant at Kurnell begins operation.
* Jessica Watson returns to Sydney after solo round the world voyage.
* 2011
* 11 killed in deliberately-lit Quakers Hill Nursing Home fire.
* Population: 4,028,524.[127]
* 2012 - Redevelopment of Barangaroo commences.
* 2013
* Southern Sydney Freight Line opened.
* White Bay Cruise Terminal opened.
* 2014
* 2014 Sydney hostage crisis
* Second Sydney Airport location announced as Badgerys Creek.
* Festival of Dangerous Ideas cancels speech by Hizb ut-Tahrir.[128]
* Afterpay buy now pay later service launched.
* 2015 - Police worker killed by Islamic terrorist in Parramatta.
* 2016
* International Convention Centre opened.
* Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid found guilty of corruption over Circular Quay retail leases.
* 2017
* Population reaches 5 million, according to the 2016 Australian census.[129]
* Lucrative The Everest horse race first run.
* 2018 - Bruce Beresford's movie Ladies in Black portrays 1959 department store employees, adapting Madeleine St John's novel The Women in Black.
* 2019
* Completion of the Sydney Metro Northwest, the first line of the upcoming Sydney Metro, Australia's first rapid transit system.
* Light Rail opens from Circular Quay to Randwick.

### 2020s

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* 2020
* 4 Jan Record high temperature of 48.9 °C (120 °F) recorded at Penrith.[130]
* Disembarkation of Ruby Princess cruise ship leads to cluster of COVID-19 cases.
* Opening of the remaining leg of the Light Rail to Kingsford.
* 75-storey Crown Sydney tower completed at Barangaroo.
* 2021
* Severe lockdowns for Greater Sydney in COVID-19 pandemic.
* Martin Green awarded Japan Prize for research on solar cells.
* 2022
* Anthony Albanese becomes fourth consecutive Prime Minister from Sydney.
* Simone Young takes up position as Chief Conductor of Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
* Fatal shark attack at Little Bay.
* 2023 - Rozelle Interchange opens.
* 2024
* Six killed in Bondi Junction stabbings.
* Stabbing of Assyrian bishop Mari Emmanuel during church service.
* Opening of Chatswood-City-Sydenham Metro line.

## See also

[edit]

* History of Sydney
* List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney
* List of governors of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney
* List of premiers of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney.

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## Bibliography

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* Description of a view of the town of Sydney. London: Printed by J. and C. Adlard. 1830. "Now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester-square, painted by R. Burford"
* David Brewster, ed. (1832). "Sydney". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t82j6q872.
* Picture of Sydney; and Strangers' Guide in New South Wales. Sydney: J. Maclehose. 1838.
* Sydney in 1848. 1848–1850. (1962 facsimile published by Ure Smith)
* John Dunmore Lang (1852), "City of Sydney", Australian Emigrant's Manual, London: Partridge and Oakey
* Sands' Sydney Directory. 1858–1933.
* Stranger's Guide to Sydney. Sydney: James William Waugh. 1861. ISBN 9780908120215. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
* Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Sydney". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 4\. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064810.
* Handbook to Sydney and Suburbs. Sydney: S.T. Leigh & Company. 1867.
* George Henry Townsend (1867), "Sydney", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
* "Australia: Sydney". Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory. London: G. Street. 1869.
* J.H. Heaton (1879). "Sydney". Australian Dictionary of Dates. Sydney: G. Robertson. ISBN 9780790582641. `{{cite book}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
* "New South Wales: Sydney". Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. New York: George Wright. 1881.
* "Towns in New South Wales: Sydney". Australian Handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea): Shippers' and Importers' Directory & Business Guide. Gordon and Gotch. 1888.
* "New South Wales and its Metropolis". Year-book of Australia for 1891. London. 1891.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* George Lacon James (1892), "City of Sydney", Shall I Try Australia?, London: L.U. Gill, OCLC 8559275

### Published in the 20th century

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* "Sydney". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Illustrated Guide to Sydney. Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade and Circulating Library. 1901.
* Old Times, Sydney: Commercial Publishing Co., April 1903
* Annual Report for ... 1903, City of Sydney, 1903
* Annual Report for ... 1904, City of Sydney, 1903
* J.D. Fitzgerald (1906). Greater Sydney and Greater Newcastle. Sydney: NSW Bookstall Company.
* Norddeutscher Lloyd (1906). "Sydney". 'Lloyd' Guide to Australasia. London: Edward Stanford.
* "Sydney (N.S.W.)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 278–280.
* Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Sydney", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
* K. W. Robinson, 'Sydney, 1850–1952, A Comparison of Developments in the Heart of the City', Australian Geographer, Vol. 6, 1952–1956
* Nineteenth Century Sydney: Essays in Urban History, M. Kelly (ed.), Sydney University Press, 1978
* P.R. Proudfoot (1986). "Changing Patterns of Maritime Activity in Central Sydney". The Great Circle. 8 (1). Australian Association for Maritime History: 33–53\. JSTOR 41562715.
* Gail Reekie (1987). ""Humanising Industry": Paternalism, Welfarism and Labour Control in Sydney's Big Stores 1890–1930". Labour History (53): 1–19\. doi:10.2307/27508857. JSTOR 27508857.
* Sydney Street Directory, Macquarie Park, N.S.W: Gregory's, 1987, OL 24208759M
* P. Webber, ed. (1988), The Design of Sydney. Sydney: Law Book Company.
* Shirley H. Fitzgerald, Sydney 1842–1992 (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1992)
* Paul Ashton (1993). The accidental city: planning Sydney since 1788. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 0868064874.
* Hilary Golder (1995), "Electoral History of Sydney 1842–1992", Sydney's History, City of Sydney
* J. Birmingham. (1999), Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney. Knopf.

### Published in the 21st century

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* Sydney: the Emergence of a World City. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000.
* P. Spearritt. (2000), Sydney's Century: a History. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
* Sydney, Condensed Guides, Lonely Planet, 2000, OL 8647599M
* "Sydney: On Top of the World Down Under", National Geographic Magazine, vol. 198, USA, 2000
* Ken Bernstein (2003), "Sydney", Pocket Guide Australia, Berlitz, OL 9196697M
* "Sydney". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
* John Punter (2004). "From the Ill-Mannered to the Iconic: Design Regulation in Central Sydney 1947–2002". Town Planning Review. 75 (4): 405–445\. doi:10.3828/tpr.75.4.3. JSTOR 40112621.
* Jim Bain (2007). A Financial Tale of Two Cities: Sydney and Melbourne's Remarkable Contest for Commercial Supremacy. UNSW Press. ISBN 978-0-86840-963-4.
* History Program (2011). "Exchange: Commercial & Retail Sydney". Historical Walking Tours. City of Sydney.

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