Events
- 25 April – The Anzac tradition begins during World War I with a landing at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
- 30 April – Australian submarine AE2 sunk in Sea of Marmara.
- 6 June – The BHP steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales.
- 19 July – Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
- 9 August – 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.
- 20 December – Completion of ANZAC evacuation from Gallipoli before dawn.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)