1880 in Australia
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Events
- 20 January - Bushranger Captain Moonlight (real name Andrew George Scott) hanged in Sydney.
- 31 January - The Bulletin magazine is first published
- 16 April - School is made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in New South Wales.
- 28 June Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan, Victoria.
- 1 October - The Melbourne International Exhibition is opened at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton.
- 10 October - Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
- 11 November - Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
- 23 November - Redmond Barry, the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly to be hanged, dies just twelve days after Kelly was hanged.
- Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Science and technology
- 2 February - The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrived in London aboard the SS Strathleven.
- August - The first telephone exchange in Australia opened in Melboourne.[1]
Australia was one of the best artistic countries in the world.
Deaths
- 20 January - Captain Moonlight, bushranger (born 1842), hanged
- 2 May - Tom Wills, cricketer and founder of Australian rules football (born 1835), suicide
- 29 July – Charles Hervey Bagot, South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian (b. 1788)
- 27 September – Charles Hardwicke, Tasmanian explorer (b. 1788)
- 27 October - Samuel Gill, artist (born 1818)
- 11 November - Ned Kelly, bushranger (b. c. 1855), hanged
- 23 November - Redmond Barry, Judge (born 1813)
References
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