What Major Historical events ahve happened to Sydney Australia
like any major earthquacks? or tsunamis! or anything that affected how they live
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What Major Historical events ahve happened to Sydney Australia
like any major earthquacks? or tsunamis! or anything that affected how they live
Thanks!
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1770 - Capt James Cook landed at Botany bay.
1788 - Site of the first major European settlement on the Australian continent - the settlement later named Sydney.
1929 Great depression hit Sydney badly
1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge completed
1938 Hosted British Empire Games (now called Commonweath Games).
1973 Sydney Opera House opened.
1986 flash floods
1994 Sydney Bushfires (see link below)
1999 Hailstorm - costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history
2000 Hosted the Olympic Games
2001/2002 Sydney Bushfires
2003 Hosted Rugby World Cup
2007 Hosted APEC leaders (21 countries)
2008 Hosted world youth day (Catholic) 2008
Personal Note:
My brother and his family were living in Gosford just north of Sydney during the 1994 Bush fires. At its worst the fires melted the F3 freeway and cut him off from where he worked in Sydney and his home. He chose to ride out the worst staying with friends in Sydney. Meanwhile his wife couldn't be contacted either because she and his kids had been evacuated from his home suburb as that was under threat. For a time it looked like the only way out of Sydney was by boat as every major road out of town in all directions was cut off by bush fires. A pretty scary prospect for a city of 4 million people. Thankfully all were safe and sound following the events. He eventually did get home 24 hours later.
The olympics in 200! Many great athletes have past through the place of sydney.
in a real hot summer we often get bushfires on the outskirts of sydney (1 hour north, west and south from the city) and there was an earthquake in newcastle (2 hours north) about 25 years ago but thats about it. we're pretty lucky with our climate/geography.
2000 Olympics
WW2 sydney was attacked by a Japanese submarine
opera house was built
the harbour bridge