1880 in Australia

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1880 in Australia

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Other events of 1880 • Timeline of Australian history

Events

• 20 January - Bushranger Captain Moonlight (real name Andrew George Scott) hanged in Sydney.
• 31 January - The Bulletin magazine is first published
• 16 April - School is made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in New South Wales.
• 28 June Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan, Victoria.
• 1 October - The Melbourne International Exhibition is opened at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton.
• 10 October - Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
• 11 November - Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
• 23 November - Redmond Barry, the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly to be hanged, dies just twelve days after Kelly was hanged.
• Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.

Science and technology

• 2 February - The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrived in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

Sport

• Grand Flaneur wins the Melbourne Cup
• England defeat Australia by 5 wickets in a Cricket Test held at The Oval

Births

• 15 April - Doug McLean, Sr., rugby footballer (died 1947)
• 11 December - Frank Tarrant, cricketer (died 1951)
• 20 December - Earle Page, the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia (died 1961)

Deaths

• 20 January - Captain Moonlight, bushranger (born 1842), hanged
• 27 October - Samuel Gill, artist (born 1818)
• 11 November - Ned Kelly, bushranger (b. c. 1855), hanged
• 23 November - Redmond Barry, Judge (born 1813)