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1850
| General Events |
*University of Sydney founded
*California becomes the 31st state of the US
*American Express formed from a merger of express mail services |
1851
| General Events |
*Gold first discovered in Australia at Bathurst, and then later at Clunes and Ballarat
*The colony of Victoria is first formed separate to New South Wales
*The New York Times was first published |
1852
| General Events |
*The Devil's Island penal colony is opened by the French off French Guinana in South America |
1853
| General Events |
*University of Melbourne founded
*New Zealand officially ceases to be a colony of Great Britain, 48 years before Australia did |
1854
| General Events |
*EUREKA STOCKADE
*The first game of cricket was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
*Flinders Street Station was opened
*The Melbourne Age was first published
*The Hobart Mercury was first published
*The Crimean War began
*The Suez Canal commences construction |
1855
| General Events |
*Van Dieman's Land is formally renamed Tasmania
*New Zealand suffers an earthquake of 8.1 on the Richtor Scale - the worst to this day |
1856
| General Events |
*Premiers were first elected in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania
*The Crimean War ended |
1857
| General Events |
*Ottawa is proclaimed as the capital of Canada
*Hollywood founded as a farming community outside Los Angeles |
1858
| General Events |
*The first game of Australian football is played between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar
*The Adelaide Advertiser was first published
*Minnesota becomes the 32nd state of the US |
1859
| General Events |
*The colony of Queensland is first formed separate
to New South Wales
*Rabbits were first introduced into Australian fauna
*Big Ben sounds for the first time
*Oregon becomes the 33rd state of the US |
1860
| General Events |
*Burke and Wills began their tragic expedition
*In a pre-cursor to the Civil War, South Carolina secedes from the Union |
1861
| General Events |
*The Melbourne Cup was run for the first time
*The American Civil War begins after more states secede from the Union
*Kansas becomes the 34th state of the US |
1862
| General Events |
*None as yet |
1863
| General Events |
*The land that now makes up the Northern Territory was passed from New South Wales to South Australia
*West Virginia becomes the 35th state of the US as a break up of Virginia who had seceded |
1864
| General Events |
*The International Red Cross is founded
*Nevada becomes the 36th state of the US
*The Wisden Cricketing Almanac is first published |
1865
| General Events |
*The worlds first narrow gauge main railway line is opened in Queensland at Ipswich
*The American Civil War ends
*On the back of that, the Klu Klux Klan is formed
*Abraham Lincoln assassinated |
1866
| General Events |
*Victoria introduces tariffs
*The Trans Atlantic telegraph line is completed |
1867
| General Events |
*A gold rush to Gympie saves the colony of Queensland from bankruptcy
*Nebraska becomes the 37th state of the US |
1868
| General Events |
*The last shipment of convicts arrives in Perth
*The Salvation Army is founded as the Christian Mission |
1869
| General Events |
*A submarine telegraph cable between Tasmania and the mainland is completed |
1870
| General Events |
*All colonies except Tasmania adopt flags of their own
*Blacks get the right to vote in the US for the first time |
1871
| General Events |
*Major League Baseball begins
*The Peshtigo fire on the shores of Lake Michigan takes 2,500 lives, the worst fire in US history |
1872
| General Events |
*The overland telegraph cable between Port Augusta and Darwin is completed, putting Australia in touch with the world |
1873
| General Events |
*Ayers Rock (now Uluru) is first named
*The "Panic of 1873" starts a four year depression in the US, the first of a number |
1874
| General Events |
*University of South Australia founded
*The first public zoo in the US opens in Philadelphia | |
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