1919 in Australia

All you want to know about 1919 in Australia

March 1 – The Potts, believed to be the world's longest running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist, is first published in The Sun News-Pictorial.
June 1 – A mutiny occurs on board the Royal Australian Navy battlecruiser HMAS Australia shortly after it arrives in Fremantle, Western Australia.
June 28 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in France, bringing Australia's involvement in World War I to an end.
October 18 – Sir Adrian Knox is appointed Chief Justice of the High Court.
October 28 – The Treaty of Peace (Germany) Act 1919 receives Royal Assent, confirming Australia's membership as a sovereign nation in the new League of Nations, and indicating Australia's independence from the United Kingdom.
December 10 – Keith and Ross Smith, piloting a Vickers Vimy, reach Darwin at the end of the first England to Australia flight.
December 19 – A federal election is held. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Billy Hughes defeats the Australian Labor Party of Frank Tudor.
December 24 – The Electrical Trades Union of Australia is federally registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1904.
The worldwide Spanish flu epidemic continues, eventually claiming almost 12,000 lives in Australia

September 10 – J. F. Archibald, founding editor of the The Bulletin dies, bequeathing money which would be used to award the Archibald Prize for portraiture.

January 6 – Geoffrey Bingham, author and Anglican minister
February 3 – Bill Alley, cricketer (d. 2004)
February 16 – Keith Carmody, cricketer (d. 1977)
February 22 – Mary Maguire, actress (d. 1974)
March 1 – Reg Sprigg, geologist (d. 1994)
March 25 – William Wade, NSW politician
March 28 – Tom Brooks, cricketer (d. 2007)
April 10 – Vernon Wilcox, politician (d. 2004)
May 1 – Lance Barnard, Deputy Prime Minister (d. 1997)
May 15 – Thomas Drake-Brockman, politician (d. 1992)
May 22 – Peter Howson, politician
May 28 – Olga Masters, writer (d. 1986)
June 24 – Fabian "Fabe" McCarthy, rugby union footballer
September 14 – Gil Langley, cricketer (d. 2001)
October 6 – Abe Saffron, Sydney crime figure (d. 2006)
October 7 – Zelman Cowen, Governor General of Australia
November 5 – Thomas O'Dwyer, cricketer (d. 2005)
November 19 – Margaret Whitlam, wife of Gough Whitlam
December 7 – Wilfred Arthur, World War II fighter ace (d. 2000)
December 10 – Jean Lee, last woman executed in Australia (d. 1951)
December 17 – Geraldine Halls (pen name: Charlotte Jay), mystery novelist (d. 1996)
December 29 – Malcolm Mackay, politician (d. 1999)

February 4 – Richard Bowyer Smith (b. 1837), inventor
March 20 – Sir Edward Charles Stirling (b. 1848), anthropologist
June 8 – Henry Briggs (b. 1844), WA politician
June 21 – Sir Thomas à Beckett (b. 1836), solicitor and judge
July 25 – Nat Gould (b. 1857), British novelist
July 25 – Samuel McCaughey (b. 1835), pastoralist
July 30 – Sir Simon Fraser (b. 1832), politician
August 4 – Dave Gregory (b. 1845), cricketer
September 10 – J.F. Archibald (b. 1856), publisher and journalist
September 12 – John Mark Davies (b. 1840), Victorian politician
September 24 – Frank Laver (b. 1869), cricketer
October 7 – Alfred Deakin (b. 1856), Prime Minister of Australia
October 25 – William Kidston (b. 1849), Premier of Queensland (1906–1907, 1908–1911)
November 2 – Mephan Ferguson (b. 1843), manufacturer
December 20 – Sir Philip Fysh (b. 1835), Premier of Tasmania (1877–1878, 1887–1892)
December 25 – Sir Edwin Thomas Smith (b. 1830), SA politician

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