See also: 1915 in Australia, other events of 1916, 1917 in Australia and the Timeline of Australian history. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is a timeline of Australian history. ...

Incumbents

• Prime Minister - Andrew Fisher then Billy Hughes
• Governor General - The Right Hon. Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson
• Premier of New South Wales - William Holman
• Premier of South Australia - Archibald Peake then from 3 April Crawford Vaughan
• Premier of Queensland - Digby Denham then from 1 June T.J. Ryan
• Premier of Tasmania - John Earle
• Premier of Western Australia - John Scaddan
• Premier of Victoria - Sir Alexander Peacock

Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... Andrew Fisher at the naming of Canberra ceremony, 1913 Andrew Fisher (29 August 1862 - 22 October 1928), Australian politician and fifth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Crosshouse, a mining village near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. ... William Morris Billy Hughes, (September 25, 1862–October 28, 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian political history. ... Michael Jeffery, the current Governor-General of Australia The Governor-General of Australia is the representative in Australia of Australias head of state, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, who lives in the United Kingdom. ... Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson The Right Honourable Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, KBE, PC (6 March 1860–30 March 1934), sixth Governor-General of Australia, was probably the most politically influential holder of this post. ... Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in New South Wales. ... William Arthur Holman (Born Clapham, London August 4, 1871; Died Gordon, June 6, 1934) was an Australian Labor Party Premier of New South Wales, Australia, who split with the party on the conscription issue in 1916 during World War 1, and immediately became Premier of a conservative Nationalist Party Government. ... This is a list of Premiers of South Australia. ... Crawford Vaughan (1874 – 1947), was Premier of South Australia between April 3 1915 and July 14 1917. ... List of Premiers of Queensland Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Queensland. ... Digby Frank Denham (1859-1944) was Premier of Queensland, Australia, from February 1911 to June 1915. ... Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Tasmania. ... John Earle (c. ... John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. ... John Scaddan, from the Western Australian Government Photographer Collection Hon. ... List of Premiers of Victoria Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Victoria. ... Sir Alexander Peacock Sir Alexander James Peacock (11 June 1861 - 7 October 1933), Australian politician, was the 20th Premier of Victoria. ...

Events

• April 25 - The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
• April 30 - Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
• June 6 - The BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
• July 19 - - Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
• August 9 - Alexander Burton died at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was awarded the Victoria Cross.
• 24 August - The town of Holbrook, New South Wales was renamed from Germanton.
• 10 October - Twenty six men left Gilgandra, New South Wales on the Cooee March; the first of the World War I Snowball marches. At each town on the route they shouted "cooee" to attract recruits; the march arrived in Sydney on 12 November with 263 recruits.
• 27 October - Billy Hughes becomes the seventh Prime Minister of Australia and the first to serve consecutive terms in office.
• December 20 - Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.

April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli, in the Middle East and on the Western Front. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Military dead: 4 million The First World War, also known as The Great War, The War to End All Wars, and World War I (abbreviated WWI) was... Satellite image of the Gallipoli peninsula and surrounding area Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, (Greek: Καλλίπολις), is a town in northwestern Turkey. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining. ... A model of Gunter Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine German UC-1 class World War I submarine A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... AE2 was a E-class submarine built by Vickers Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness, England. ... Map of the Sea of Marmara Satellite view of the Sea of Marmara The Sea of Marmara (Turkish: Marmara Denizi, Modern Greek: Θάλασσα του Μαρμαρά or Προποντίδα) (also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea) is an inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea, thus separating the... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... BHP Billiton is the worlds largest mining company. ... A view of Newcastle from Stockton Newcastle is Australias sixth largest city and the second largest in the state of New South Wales. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... Captain Albert Jacka VC, MC and bar Albert Jacka (VC, MC and bar) (10 January 1893–17 January 1932) was the first Australian to receive the Victoria Cross during the First World War. ... Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... Battle of Lone Pine Conflict First World War Date 6–12 August 1915 Place Anzac, Gallipoli, Turkey Result Australian victory Prelude The Lone Pine battlefield, named for a solitary Turkish Pine that stood there at the start of the fighting, was situated about the centre of the eastern line of... Satellite image of the Gallipoli peninsula and surrounding area Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, (Greek: Καλλίπολις), is a town in northwestern Turkey. ... Victoria Cross medal, ribbon, and bar. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... HMAS Otways hull on display at Holbrook, New South Wales. ... During World War I, many German-sounding place names in Australia were changed. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... Gilgandra, a town and Local Government Area (Shire of Gilgandra) in central west New South Wales, Australia, has a few thousand inhabitants and was established some time between 1800 and 1900. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... William Morris Billy Hughes, (September 25, 1862–October 28, 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian political history. ... Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that was formed in Egypt in 1915 and operated during the Battle of Gallipoli. ... Combatants United Kingdom France India Australia New Zealand Newfoundland Ottoman Empire Commanders Sir Ian Hamilton Otto Liman von Sanders Mustafa Kemal Strength 5 divisions (initial) 14 divisions (final) 6 divisions (initial) 14 divisions (final) Casualties 252,000 (205,000 British, 47,000 French) 253,000 The Battle of Gallipoli took...

Science & Technology

• 10 December - Father and son scientists William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir William Henry Bragg OM, Cantab, OKW (Westward, Cumbria, England July 2, 1862 – March 10, 1942) was an English physicist and chemist, educated at King Williams College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. ... Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, FRS, (March 31, 1890 - July 1, 1971) was a Australian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. ... Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) accepting the Nobel Prize for his work on magnetohydrodynamics [1]. List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...

Sport

• Patrobas wins the Melbourne Cup
• 1914/15 the Sheffield Shield was won by the Victorian Bushrangers; after this season it was not contested due to the war.

The 1976 cup won by Van Der Hum. ... For more coverage of cricket, go to the Cricket portal. ... The Victorian Bushrangers are an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

Births

• 3 March - Manning Clark (d.1991), historian

March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... Charles Manning Hope Clark AC (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) is one of Australias most distinguished historians, recognised for his mammoth six-volume work History of Australia published between 1962 and 1987. ... See also: 1990 in Australia, other events of 1991, 1992 in Australia See also: 1991 Australian incumbents // Incumbents Prime Minister - Bob Hawke, then Paul Keating Governor General - Bill Hayden Premier of New South Wales - Nick Greiner Premier of South Australia - John Bannon Premier of Queensland - Wayne Goss Premier of Tasmania...

Deaths

See also

• 1915
• 1910s