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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1916 in Australia .
Incumbents
Billy Hughes
State premiers
State governors
Events
Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the "
six o'clock swill ": 27 March in South Australia; 21 July in Sydney after referendum of 10 June; 11 October in Victoria; during March in Tasmania.
14 February –
Liverpool riot of 1916 – troops
mutinied against conditions at the
Casula Camp . They raided hotels in
Liverpool before travelling by train to Sydney, where one soldier was shot dead in a riot at
Central Railway station .
6 June – The Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the
Returned and Services League is founded.
26 June –
William Jackson awarded the
Victoria Cross for his actions in a raid near
Armentières , France.
1 to 30 June – Adelaide receives 217.9 millimetres (8.58 in) of rain, its highest monthly rainfall since records began in 1839.
[1]
19 July –
Battle of Fromelles commenced; over the next seven weeks 22 826 Australian casualties occurred.
23 July –
Arthur Seaforth Blackburn and
John Leak awarded the
Victoria Cross for their actions (separate) at the
Battle of Pozières .
25 July –
Thomas Cooke died in the
Battle of Pozières and was awarded the
Victoria Cross for his gallantry in the face of the enemy.
29 July –
Claude Charles Castleton killed in the
Battle of Pozières and for his actions in bringing back wounded men before and at the time of his death, he was awarded the
Victoria Cross .
Between 9 August and 12 August –
Martin O'Meara repeatedly went out and brought in wounded officers and men from "
No Man's Land " under intense
artillery and
machine-gun fire during the
Battle of Pozières ; for his gallantry he was awarded the
Victoria Cross .
30 August – Rescue of the 22 men
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition who remained on Elephant Island.
28 October – The
first plebiscite on the issue of military conscription was held; it was defeated.
1 November – a general coal strike began in eastern Australia.
The Labor government under
Billy Hughes splits over
military conscription .
13 November –
Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the
Labor Party over his support for conscription.
2 December –
Sydney Twelve : 12 members of the
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) convicted in Sydney of conspiring to commit
arson and
sedition .
23 December –
World War I :
Battle of Magdhaba – In the
Sinai desert, Australian and New Zealand mounted troops capture the
Turkish garrison.
28 December – Floods in
Clermont, Queensland claimed more than 60 lives.
Undated – An unknown number of
Indigenous Australians , could be as many as 300 to 400, are murdered at Geegully Creek, near Mowla Bluff, in the
Kimberley region of
Western Australia in an incident known as the
Mowla Bluff massacre . Following the beating of a white station manager by
Indigenous men , an armed mob which included officials and residents rounded up a large number of Aboriginal men, women and children who were then shot and had their bodies burned.
Melbourne, with 967.5 millimetres (38.09 in)
[2] and Hobart with 1,104.2 millimetres (43.47 in),
[3] each receive their highest annual rainfall due to a strong
La Niña .
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
Gough Whitlam
Deaths
See also
References
1916 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand