The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Pre-Colonial
Sydney Cove, Port Jackson, 1792
- 50,000–45,000 BP – Near Penrith, a far western suburb of Sydney, numerous Aboriginal stone tools were found in Cranebrook Terraces gravel sediments dating to this time period; at first when these results were new they were controversial. More recently in 1987 and 2003, dating of the same strata has revised and corroborated these dates.[1]
- 30,000 BP – Radiocarbon dating suggests human activity occurred in and around the Sydney basin, as evidenced by an archaeological dig in Parramatta, in Western Sydney.[2][3] The finds show that the Aboriginal Australians in that region used charcoal, stone tools and possible ancient campfires.[4][5]
- 21,100–17,800 BP – Stone artifact assemblages dating to this time period discovered in Shaws Creek (near Hawkesbury River) and in Blue Mountains. A rock shelter with flakes dating to this period discovered near Nepean River.[6]
- 5,000–7000 BP – The Sydney rock engravings, a form of Australian Aboriginal rock art consisting of carefully drawn images of people, animals, or symbols, date to this time period.[7]
- 4,000–2,000 BC – The first backed stone artifacts developed, such as blades and spears. The stones would drill, scrape, cut and grind material. They were also associated with woodworking.[8]
- 1,000–500 BC – Bone and shell usage dating to this period discovered. They would've been attached to fishing spear prongs, which would mean that multi-pronged fishing spears occurred at this time. The evidence of spear-throwing is suggested by an excavated shell in Balmoral Beach.[9]
- c 500 CE - Likely large tsunami.[10]
18th–19th centuries
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- 1770 – Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, in command of HMS Endeavour, sights the east coast of Australia and lands at Kurnell.
- 1786 – British government decides to found convict settlement in Botany Bay.
- 1787 – First Fleet of eleven vessels under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth.
- 1788
- Phillip arrives in Botany Bay but moves site of settlement to Sydney Cove.
- French vessels under the command of Lapérouse land in Botany Bay.
- Parramatta founded.
- Convict Henry Kable successfully sues ship's master for stealing his goods on voyage.
- 1789
- Smallpox epidemic kills many of indigenous population.
- Rose Hill Packet built for service on Parramatta River.
- Six marines hanged for theft from government stores.
- Farquhar's comedy 'The Recruiting Officer' performed by convicts.[11]
- 1790
- Phillip speared by Willemering at Manly Cove.
- Second Fleet arrives with many deaths and convicts in poor condition.
- Glebe granted as endowment to Church of England.
- 1791
- Successful convict farmer James Ruse granted land at Rosehill.
- Convict station established at Old Toongabbie.
- Mary Bryant and other convicts escape by open boat to Timor.
- Third Fleet arrives with provisions.
- First convicts arrive from Ireland in the Queen.
- 1792
- Burial Ground established.
- Visit of first trading vessels, the Philadelphia and Hope from America.[12]
- 1793
- John and Elizabeth Macarthur begin building Elizabeth Farm at Rosehill.
- Visit of Malaspina's Spanish exploratory expedition.
- First free settlers arrive on the Bellona.
- First church built.
- Watkin Tench's Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson published in London.
- 1794 – Maurice Margarot and four other radical political prisoners arrive.
- 1795
- Bennelong returns from visit to England.
- Descendants of cattle that had escaped in 1788 found at Cowpastures (Camden).
- First printing press used to print government orders.[13]
- Complex legal case Boston v Laycock over shooting of pig by soldier.[14]
- 1796
- White population: 4,000.
- Political prisoner Thomas Muir escapes on American ship.
- Bushranger "Black Caesar" shot and killed.
- First theatre opens.[15]
- 1797
- Prospect, a western Sydney suburb, became the boundary between colonists and indigenous Australians. Hostility grew where a state of guerrilla warfare existed between indigenous people and the settler communities at Prospect and Parramatta.[16] The aboriginal people were led by their leader, Pemulwuy, a member of the Bidjigal tribe who occupied the land.[17]
- First windmill.[18]
- First merino sheep brought from Cape of Good Hope by Captain Waterhouse.
- 1798 – First church burns down.
- 1800 – Hundreds of rebels of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 arrive as convicts.
- 1801
- Female Orphan School first state charitable institution.[19]
- Lieutenant Governor Paterson wounded by John Macarthur in a duel.
- 1802
- Visit of Baudin's French exploratory expedition.
- Matthew Flinders departs Sydney for circumnavigation of Australia.
- Pemulwuy shot and killed.
- 1803
- Sydney Gazette newspaper begins publication.
- First Vaucluse House built.
- First officially-permitted Catholic masses said by Fr Dixon.
- Masonic meeting broken up by order of the Governor.[20]
- 1804
- Castle Hill convict rebellion
- Fort Phillip construction begins.[21]
- 1805 – first whaling vessels based in Sydney.[22]
- 1806 – Visit of Russian ship Neva en route to Alaska.
- 1808 – New South Wales Corps depose Governor Bligh in Rum Rebellion.
- 1810
- Macquarie Street laid out and Hyde Park reserved as a public park.
- First post office opened, with Isaac Nichols postmaster.
- Liverpool founded.
- 1813
- Crossing of Blue Mountains opens route from Sydney to west.
- Benevolent Society founded as charity for general purposes.
- First steam engine imported.[23]
- 1814 – Native Institution established for education of black children.
- 1815 – Sydney connected to inland by Cox's Road over Blue Mountains.
- 1816
- Royal Botanic Gardens open.
- Sydney Hospital built.
- 1817
- Bank of New South Wales established.[24]
- Construction of Fort Macquarie begun on Bennelong Point.
- 1818 – Macquarie Lighthouse operational.
Government House, 1819
- 1819
- Hyde Park Barracks built.
- Visit of de Freycinet's French exploratory expedition.
- 1820
- Devonshire Street Cemetery established.
- Deaths from flu epidemic.[25]
- 1821
- First Catholic church, St Mary's, begins construction.
- Philosophical Society (later Royal Society of New South Wales) founded.
- 1823 – Sydney Royal Easter Show begins.
- 1824
- St James' Church consecrated.
- New South Wales Supreme Court proclaimed.
- The Australian newspaper begins publication.
- 1825 – New South Wales Legislative Council established in Sydney.
- 1826
- Scots Church opened.
- Eliza Darling establishes the first friendly society, the Female Friendly Society of the Town of Sydney.
- Sydney Australian Subscription Library and Reading Room founded.
- 1827 – Australian Museum established.[26]
- 1828
- Thieves steal some £14,000 in Bank of Australia robbery.
- North Head begins use as quarantine station.
- 1831
- Weekly Sydney Herald newspaper begins publication.[27][28]
- The King's School, Parramatta founded.
- 1833
- Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts founded.[29]
- Randwick Racecourse opened.
- Theatre Royal opened.
- Eight killed in explosion of brig Ann Jameson at King's Wharf.[30]
- 1834
- First Catholic bishop appointed.
- Markets consolidated at Paddy's Markets site at Haymarket.
- Australian Union Benefit Society formed to support workers in distress.[31]
- Commercial Banking Company of Sydney founded.
- 1835 – Tooth & Co build Kent Brewery at Blackwattle Creek.
- 1836
- Visit of Charles Darwin on voyage of the Beagle.
- First Anglican bishop installed.
- Great North Road completed connecting Sydney to Hunter Valley.
- 1837 – Government House [32] and Botany-Sydney aqueduct[29] built.
- 1838
- Seven perpetrators of Myall Creek Massacre hanged.
- David Jones (shop) in business.[33]
- 1839
- Penal establishment for secondary punishment opened on Cockatoo Island.
- First ice imported to Sydney from Boston.[34]
- 1840
- Farmers & Co. in business.[35]
- Visiting Maori chiefs' attempted sale of South Island to W.C. Wentworth and associates prevented by Governor Gipps.[36]
- 1841
- Caroline Chisholm establishes Female Immigrants Home
- Darlinghurst Gaol in operation.
- Scarlet fever epidemic.[37]
- First photograph in Australia.
- 1842
- City incorporated; city council elected.[38]
- Area of city: 11.65 square kilometres (approximate).[39]
- Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney established.
- 1843
- Depth of depression with failures of Bank of Australia and Sydney Banking Company.
- Riot during campaign for first elected Legislative Council.
- 1844 – Hero of Waterloo Hotel built.
- 1846
- Hero's welcome to Ludwig Leichhardt on his return from overland expedition to Port Essington.
- First Australian meat canning plant opened.[40]
- 1847
- Isaac Nathan's opera Don John of Austria produced at Royal Victoria Theatre.
- Herman Melville's Omoo describes a whaling voyage from Sydney.
- 1848
- 1849
- Arrival of Hashemy, last convict transport.
- Foundation of AMP Society to provide life insurance.
- 1850
- University of Sydney established.
- Freeman's Journal newspaper begins publication.
- 1853 – Manly ferry services begin.
- 1854
- Sydney Cricket Ground opens.
- St Paul's College founded.[43]
- 1855
- First New South Wales Government Railways train operates from Redfern to Parramatta.
- Sydney Mint established in General Hospital and Dispensary building.
- Stonemasons first workers to win Eight-hour day.
- Lola Montez shocks theatregoers with her "libertinish and indelicate" Spider Dance.[44]
- 1856
- First Pyrmont Bridge built.[45]
- St Philip's Church rebuilt.
- Anglican Moore Theological College opens.
- First Australian medical school established at Sydney University.
- 1857
- Wreck of Dunbar at The Gap kills 121.
- Fitzroy Dock dry dock completed on Cockatoo Island Dockyard.
- St Vincent's Hospital founded by Sisters of Charity.
- St John's College founded.[43]
- Construction of Fort Denison completed.
- Australian Museum opened to the public.
- 1858
- Sydney Observatory built.
- Royal Navy takes over Garden Island for use as naval base.
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Sydney University, c. 1880s
- 1859
- Parliamentary electoral districts of East Sydney and West Sydney created.
- Great Hall of the University of Sydney completed.
- 1861
- Thomas Sutcliffe Mort establishes freezing works at Darling Harbour.
- First horse-drawn trams run from Circular Quay to Redfern station.
- Population: 95,000 city and suburbs.[32]
- 1865 – St Mary's Cathedral destroyed by fire.
- 1866 – Bridge St building demolished in nitroglycerine explosion.[46]
- 1867
- Henry Kendall's poem Bell-Birds published in Sydney Morning Herald.
- Measles epidemic kills some 750, mostly young children.[47]
- First burials at Rookwood Cemetery.
- 1868
- Belmore Park opens.
- St Andrew's Cathedral consecrated.[32]
- Prince Alfred survives shooting by Irishman Henry O'Farrell at Clontarf.
- First mention of Granny Smith apple, discovered by Maria Smith at Ryde.[48]
- 1869 – State Government purchases Subscription Library and opens Sydney Free Public Library.
- 1871
- Trades & Labor Council formed as peak union body.
- Sydney Exchange and Academy of Art founded.
- 1872
- Sydney connected to Europe by telegraph.
- Fish market opens in Woolloomooloo.[49]
- Tooheys opens Darling Brewery.[50]
- 1874 – Art Gallery of New South Wales opened.
- 1877 – Waverley Cemetery established near city.
- 1878
- Great Synagogue completed.
- Robinson-Finlay wedding takes place.
- 1879
- St Aloysius College, Jesuit school established.
- Sydney Riot of 1879.
- Sydney International Exhibition held; Garden Palace built.
- Art Gallery of New South Wales opens.
- Dymocks Bookseller in business.
- New South Wales Zoological Society founded.[51]
- Royal National Park established near city.
- Joseph Conrad's first visit to Sydney.[52]
- 1880
- The Bulletin magazine first published.
- Jesuit school Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview established on Lane Cove River.
- Children's Hospital opened.
- 1881
- Population: 237,300 city and suburbs.[32]
- First telephone exchange.[53]
- Coast Hospital (later Prince Henry) for infectious diseases opened at Little Bay.
- 1882
- Sydney Showground opens.
- St Mary's Cathedral consecrated.[32]
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital opened.
- Garden Palace destroyed by fire.
- Sydney Technical College formed, incorporating Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.
- Royal Easter Show moves to Moore Park site.
- The Australian Golf Club established.
- 1883
- Melbourne–Sydney railway built.[54]
- Sydney High School and Sydney Wharf Labourers Union[55] established.
- Sydney University Medical School founded by Professor Anderson Stuart.
- Sydney Cricket Ground hosts third and fourth tests in first test tour in Australia.
- 1885 – Doyles Restaurant at Watsons Bay founded.
- 1886 – Angus & Robertson bookselling partnership formed.
- 1887
- Four hanged in Mount Rennie rape case.
- Parramatta Girls Home opened.
- 1888
- Arrival of Afghan from Hong Kong sparks anti-Chinese demonstrations.[56]
- Centennial Park established to mark centenary of Sydney.
- Louisa Lawson founds The Dawn feminist magazine.
- Charles Conder's paintings Coogee Bay and Departure of the Orient - Circular Quay.
Conder, Coogee Bay, 1888 - Intercolonial Rabbit Commission meets to consider schemes for eradication of rabbits.[57]
- 1889
- Sydney Town Hall built.[32]
- Women's College[43] and Sydney Church of England Grammar School founded.
- St Patrick's Seminary, Manly, founded.
- 1890
- Sydney Town Hall Grand Organ installed.[58]
- Banjo Paterson's poem The Man from Snowy River published in The Bulletin.
- Julian Ashton Art School established.
- Kerry photography studio in business.[59]
- 1891
- General Post Office built.
- Population: 399,270 city and suburbs.[32]
- Australia Hotel opens with visit of Sarah Bernhardt.
- Constitutional Convention meets to begin framing constitution for federated Australia.
- 1892
- Strand Arcade opens.
- GPS (Great Public Schools) Association founded.
- Henry Lawson's short story The Drover's Wife published in The Bulletin.
- Suspension Bridge connects Northbridge and Cammeray.
- 1893
- Technological Museum opens.
- Royal Sydney Golf Club founded.
- Baby farmers John and Sarah Makin convicted of murder of infants.
- Arthur Streeton's painting Railway Station, Redfern.
Streeton, Railway Station, Redfern, 1893
- 1894
- Seven Little Australians published.
- Photographic Society of New South Wales founded.
- 1895
- City Tattersalls Club formed.
- Mark Twain visits Sydney on lecture tour.[60]
- 1896
- Australis motor car manufactured in Leichhardt.
- First Australian film shown at first cinema.
- 1897
- Balmain Colliery dug.
- Sacred Heart Monastery, Kensington, constructed.
- 1898
- Queen Victoria Building constructed.
- Sze Yup Temple built in Glebe.
- Clyde Engineering formed to manufacture railway rolling stock.
- 1899 – Ultimo Power Station commissioned.
- 1900
- Sydney Harbour Trust active.
- Bubonic plague outbreak.[61]
- NSW troops embark for Boer War.
20th century
1900s–1940s
King Street, circa 1900
- 1901
- Inauguration of Commonwealth of Australia at Centennial Park, with Sydney lawyer Edmund Barton first prime minister.
- Royal Australian Historical Society founded.
- Population: 112,137 city; 369,693 suburbs.[32]
- Fire destroys Anthony Hordern & Sons's department store with 5 lives lost.
- Haberfield subdivided to create garden suburb of Federation houses.
- 1902
- Second Pyrmont Bridge built.
- Sayers, Allport & Potter market successful phosphorus-based rabbit poison.
- 1903
- Glebe Island Bridge and Her Majesty's Theatre[62][63] rebuilt.
- Bronte Surf Club became the first Surf Club as noted in Bronte by S. Vesper in his history of the Bronte Surf Club
- Death of prominent Chinese businessman Quong Tart after bashing.
- 1904 – Electric street lighting installed.[63]
- 1905
- Anthony Hordern & Sons's Palace Emporium in business.
- Dental Hospital founded.
- 1906
- Central railway station opens.
- Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club active.[63]
- 1907
- 20 October: Bathing costume protests.
- Melbourne–Sydney telephone begins operating.[63]
- Bequest of David Scott Mitchell leaves major collection of Australiana to State Library of New South Wales.
- 1908
- Camperdown becomes part of city.[39]
- New South Wales Rugby League Premiership formed
- Burns-Johnson world heavyweight boxing title fight at Sydney Stadium.
- Visit of American Great White Fleet.
- 1909
- City of Sydney Library established.
- Mark Foy's emporium opened on Liverpool Street.
- First powered flight in Australia at Victoria Park Racecourse, Zetland.
- First section of Long Bay Jail opened.
- 1910
- The Sun newspaper begins publication.[64]
- Escapologist Harry Houdini demonstrates his skills.[65]
- 1912
- Natural living advocate William Chidley declared insane and confined in Callan Park Hospital.
- Culwulla Chambers built.[63]
- 1913
- Eileen O'Connor founds Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor to assist the sick poor at home.
- Parcel Post Office built at Railway Square.
- Arrival of first Royal Australian Navy fleet.[66]
- Sydney quarantined in smallpox epidemic.[67]
- 1914
- Anzacs train at Kensington Racecourse before being sent to Gallipoli.
- Maurice Guillaux makes first airmail flight from Melbourne to Sydney.
- 1915
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music established.[43]
- 1916
- First Anzac Day commemoration in Sydney.[68]
- 14 February: Liverpool riot of 1916.
- Taronga Zoo opens.
- Art in Australia magazine begins publication.
- Middleweight boxer Les Darcy wins Australian heavyweight championship at Sydney Stadium.
- James Hardie begins asbestos manufacture at Camellia.
- Sydney Camera Circle formed to promote a Pictorialist style of photography.
- 1917
- General strike begins with walkouts of Sydney railway workers.
- J.G. Park photography studio in business (approximate date).[59]
- White Bay Power Station operational.
- 1918
- Crowds celebrate Armistice Day.[69]
- Publication of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie introduces May Gibbs' cartoon gumnut babies.
- Norman Lindsay's children's book The Magic Pudding published.
- 1919
- Some 3500 die in Spanish Flu epidemic.[70]
- Elioth Gruner's Spring Frost painted at Emu Plains.
- 1920
- Communist Party of Australia formed.
- 18 February: World's "first" swimsuit competition (beauty contest) held in Sydney.[28]
- Hurlstone Park Choral Society formed.
- The Home luxury magazine first published.
- Transgender Eugene Falleni convicted of murder of wife.
- Enthusiastic welcome for visit of Prince of Wales.[71]
- 1921
- First award of Archibald Prize for portraiture.
- Bronte Splashers Winter Swimming Club was formed becoming the first Winter Swimming Club in Australia.
- 1922
- Country Women's Association founded.
- State funeral for Henry Lawson.
- D.H. Lawrence's brief visit results in novel Kangaroo set in extreme Right and Left politics in Sydney.
- HMAS Adelaide completed at Cockatoo Island Dockyard after seven years building.
- 1923 – ABC radio station 2BL begins broadcasting.
- 1924
- Sydney Airport begins operating.
- Hordern Pavilion built.
- Architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin move to Castlecrag and begin designing the suburb.
- Star Amphitheatre completed at Balmoral Beach.
- HMAS Australia scuttled off Sydney Heads under terms of disarmament treaty.
- First Spit Bridge opened.
- 1925 – Poet Christopher Brennan dismissed by Sydney University for divorce and drunkenness.
- 1926
- Electric train services begin
- Radio station 2GB begins broadcasting.
- Anna Pavlova dances at Her Majesty's Theatre.[72]
- Patent for Weet-Bix cereal registered.
- 1927
- St James railway station opens.
- Sydney Cenotaph erected.
- Hyde Park completed.
- Greycliffe ferry disaster on Sydney Harbour kills 40.
- Darrell Lea chocolate shop established in Haymarket.
- David Jones' Elizabeth Street department store opens.
- Romano's Restaurant opens.[73]
- Aeroplane Jelly launched.
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Sydney Harbour Bridge
- 1928
- Capitol Theatre opens.
- Government Savings Bank building constructed.[74]
- Catholic Eucharistic Congress witnessed by 500,000.[75]
- Charles Kingsford Smith leaves for first Trans-Tasman flight.
- Alexander MacRae's line of swimwear renamed Speedos.
- 1929
- State Theatre opens.[74]
- Sun Building constructed.[74]
- Bunnerong Power Station begins operation.
- 1930
- Modern Art Centre opens.[76]
- Grace Building constructed in Art Deco style.
- Doris Fitton founds Independent Theatre.
- Grace Cossington Smith's painting The Bridge in Curve shows the Harbour Bridge under construction.
Aerial view of Sydney, 1932
- 1931 – Collapse of Government Savings Bank and amalgamation with Commonwealth Bank.[77]
- 1932
- Sydney Harbour Bridge opened, with horseman de Groot cutting ribbon ahead of the premier.
- Town Hall railway station, and Wynyard railway station opened.
- Governor Sir Philip Game dismisses Premier Jack Lang in constitutional crisis.
- Bodyline bowling of Harold Larwood secures England victory in first test match.
- Dymocks building constructed.[74]
- Archibald Fountain unveiled.
- Arthur Stace begins decades of chalking "Eternity" on Sydney pavements.
- Edward Hallstrom's refrigerator factory opens in Willoughby.
- 1933
- Australian Women's Weekly begins publication.
- Population: city and suburbs; 1,235,267 [78]
- Australia's first traffic lights installed at corner of Market and Kent streets.[79]
- First of Cahill's restaurant chain opens.[80]
- A. P. Elkin appointed Professor of Anthropology at Sydney University, leading to dominant role in indigenous policy.
- Errol Flynn stars in In the Wake of the Bounty.
- 1934
- Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park opened.
- Communist Egon Kisch given test in Scottish Gaelic in attempt to exclude him from Australia.
- Christina Stead's novel Seven Poor Men of Sydney portrays struggles of poor intellectuals.
- Comedian Roy Rene's only film, Strike Me Lucky made by Ken G. Hall.
- 1935
- Luna Park and Astoria Theatre[81] open.
- Shark Arm case when human arm found in captured shark.
- Shark Menace Advisory Committee recommends meshing.[82]
- Olive Cotton's photograph Tea cup ballet.
- 1936
- First Black and White charity ball.[83]
- Ford car factory opened at Homebush West.
- Harry's Cafe de Wheels pie cart opens in Woolloomooloo.
- Arrival of new HMAS Sydney.
- 1938
- City hosts 1938 British Empire Games.
- Five dead when large waves wash away sandbar at Bondi Beach.[84]
- Aboriginal Day of Mourning protests sesquicentennial celebrations of settlement.
- 19 die in capsize of ferry Rodney.
- Rose Bay Flying Boat Base opened with flights to London.
- Ken G. Hall's comedy Dad and Dave Come to Town includes feature film debut of Peter Finch.
- 1939
- AWA Tower built.[74]
- Last execution in NSW.
- Kenneth Slessor's poem Five Bells commemorates friend who drowned in Sydney Harbour.
- Prime Minister Joseph Lyons dies at St Vincent's Hospital.
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Martin Place in 1939, prior to pedestrianisation
- 1940
- St. James Theatre opens.[81]
- Charles Chauvel movie Forty Thousand Horsemen filmed at Bondi and Cronulla.
- Dunera arrives after horror voyage with "enemy aliens".
- Christina Stead's novel The Man Who Loved Children describes growing up with a controlling paterfamilias.
- 1941
- Daily Mirror newspaper begins publication.[27]
- Queen Mary departs Sydney with troops for Middle East.[85]
- 1942
- Anti-submarine defences built.
- May–June: Attack on Sydney Harbour by Japanese midget submarines.
- Bankstown Bunker constructed as Air Defence HQ.
- Yaralla Military Hospital (later Concord Repatriation General Hospital) opened.
- 1943
- Sydney University philosopher John Anderson censured by State Parliament for anti-religious views.
- William Dobell's Archibald Prize-winning portrait Mr Joshua Smith subject of legal case as to whether it was a caricature.
- Kylie Tennant's novel Ride on Stranger describes a country girl making her way in the city.
- 1944 – Sali Herman's painting McElhone Stairs wins Wynne Prize.
- 1945
- Celebration of VJ Day.[86]
- First Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
- 1946
- Sydney Symphony Orchestra active.
- Norman Gilroy named first Australian-born cardinal.
- Criminal Darcy Dugan makes first of several escapes from custody.
- 1947
- Population: 95,852 city; 1,484,434 metro.[43]
- Qantas operates Sydney-London Kangaroo Route.
- New Year's Day hailstorm causes massive damage.
- Don Bradman scores 100th first-class century.
- Australian School of Pacific Administration moved to Middle Head.
- Russell Drysdale's painting Sofala wins Wynne Prize.
- 1948
- Visit of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.[87]
- Communist-Catholic debate attracts 30,000 to Sydney Stadium.[88]
- Ruth Park's novel The Harp in the South describes an inner-Sydney poor Irish community.
- Qantas connects Australia to Africa via air for first time via Sydney-Johannesburg Wallaby Route.[89][90]
- 1949
- Alexandria, Darlington, Erskineville, Glebe, Newtown, Paddington, Redfern, and Waterloo become part of the city.[39]
- University of Technology (later University of New South Wales) established.
- Australia's first computer, CSIRAC, constructed at CSIRO Radiophysics Lab.
- Security forces seize documents in raid on Communist headquarters Marx House.[91]
- Broadcast of first of 5795 episodes of radio serial Blue Hills.
- Ingrid Bergman stars in Alfred Hitchcock's film Under Capricorn, set in 1830s Sydney.
1950s–1990s
- 1950
- Nuffield Australia opens car assembly plant at Zetland.
- Lloyd Rees awarded Wynne Prize for The Harbour From McMahon's Point.
- June Dally-Watkins opens school of deportment and etiquette.
- 1951
- Joan Sutherland's stage debut in Eugene Goossens' opera Judith.
- Cumberland Plan adopted for green belt around city.
- 1952 – Berala train crash kills 10.
- 1953
- Sydney Sun-Herald newspaper in publication.[64]
- Racehorse trainer Tommy J. Smith wins the first of 33 consecutive Sydney Trainers' Premierships.
- Rugby league commentator Frank Hyde broadcasts the first of 33 consecutive grand finals on 2SM.
- Fictionalised autobiography Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid published.
- Caroline Grills convicted of murdering relatives with thallium rat poison.
Queen Elizabeth II alighting at Farm Cove, 1954
- 1954
- Queen Elizabeth II makes first royal visit.[92]
- Sydney Film Festival begins.
- Long John Silver movie with Rod Taylor among the stars.
- 1955 – Public outcry against Rosaleen Norton, the "Witch of Kings Cross", for alleged Satanism.
- 1956
- ATN Channel 7 television begins broadcasting.[64]
- Circular Quay railway station opened.
- St George rugby league club wins the first of 11 consecutive premierships.
- Kurnell oil refinery built.
- Kirribilli House begins use as Prime Ministerial residence.
- Anti-communist cultural magazine Quadrant founded.
- James Dibble begins 27 years as ABC TV newsreader.
- Conservatorium director Eugene Goossens resigns after pornography found at Airport.
- 1957
- Jørn Utzon wins competition to design Sydney Opera House.
- John Laws joins 2UE, beginning 60-year Sydney radio career.
- 1958
- Cahill Expressway completed.
- National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) founded.
- First Australian nuclear reactor opened at Lucas Heights.
- Cyril Pearl's Wild Men of Sydney describes corruption in colonial times.
- Betty Archdale becomes headmistress of Abbotsleigh girls' school, known for progressive reforms.
- 1959
- Joe Cahill dies in office after seven years as premier.
- 150,000 attend evangelist Billy Graham's last appearance at Sydney Showground.[93]
- D'Arcy Niland's novel The Big Smoke tells stories of early twentieth-century Sydney.
- 1960
- Murder of Graeme Thorne solved with scientific methods.
- Overseas Passenger Terminal opens at Circular Quay.
- Completion of Warragamba Dam ensures reliable water supply to Sydney.
- Paul Robeson sings Ol' Man River to construction workers on Opera House site.[94]
- Barry Jones begins long run of success on Pick a Box TV quiz show.
- 1961
- Last Trams in Sydney operate.
- Dr William McBride reveals thalidomide is causing birth defects.
- Demolition of Subiaco colonial home, Rydalmere, prompts moves to preserve architectural heritage.[95]
- Tania Verstak first immigrant Miss Australia.
- Dedication of Baha'i Temple.
- 1962
- First performance by Australian Ballet at Her Majesty's Theatre.
- Shows by visiting comedian Lenny Bruce cancelled for obscenity.[96]
- AMP Building opens, then the tallest building in Australia.
- Blues Point Tower completed.
- 1963
- Mysterious deaths of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler.
- Lifeline telephone counselling service launched by Rev Alan Walker.
- Gordon Andrews submits eventually successful designs for first decimal banknotes.
- 1964
- Gladesville Bridge opened.
- Macquarie University established.
- Dawn Fraser returns from Tokyo Olympics with third consecutive women's 100m freestyle gold medal.
- Rev Ted Noffs establishes Wayside Chapel near Kings Cross.
- The Beatles perform at Sydney Stadium.[97]
- The Mavis Bramston Show brings satirical sketch comedy to Australian TV.
- Editors of Oz magazine convicted of obscenity but conviction overturned on appeal.
- First of Charmian Clift's five years of essays in Sydney Morning Herald.
- James Hardie Industries ignores warning on the extreme health risks of asbestos manufacture.[98]
- Paddington Society founded.[99]
- 1965
- Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti in J.C. Williamson's opera tour.[100]
- Controversy over failure of Sydney University to appoint Dr Knopfelmacher to post in political philosophy.
- Roselands Shopping Centre opens.
- Robin Dalton's memoir Aunts up the Cross describes interwar life in Kings Cross.
- Afferbeck Lauder's Let Stalk Strine published.
- Wanda Beach Murders.
- Sydney Maritime Museum founded.
- Hydrofoil ferry service to Manly begins.
- 1966
- Attempted assassination of Arthur Calwell, Federal opposition leader, in Mosman.
- Protestors disrupt motorcade of President Lyndon Johnson in Oxford Street.[101]
- Significant changes to Opera House design after Jørn Utzon's resignation.
- Movie comedy They're a Weird Mob portrays tensions between Italian immigrants and Irish-Australians.
- Children's TV series Play School begins broadcasting.
- Wentworth Hotel opens.
Opera House under construction, 1968
- 1967
- Australia Square hi-rise built.
- Thomas Keneally wins Miles Franklin Award for novel Bring Larks and Heroes set in early Sydney.
- ABC TV current affairs show This Day Tonight premieres.
- Bourbon & Beefsteak pub opens in Kings Cross, catering to American servicemen on leave from Vietnam.
- HMAS Platypus, Neutral Bay commissioned as base for Oberon-class submarines.
- 1968
- South Sydney Municipal Council created.[39]
- Sydney Region Outline Plan envisages dispersed city centres.
- Sister city relationship established with San Francisco, USA.[102]
- Skippy the Bush Kangaroo TV series begins broadcast.
- Australia's first heart transplant by Dr Harry Windsor unsuccessful.
- Glenfield siege ends with wedding of gunman and hostage.
- D.M. Armstrong's A Materialist Theory of the Mind defends philosophical theory that the mind is identical with the brain.
- Entrepreneur Dick Smith founds Dick Smith Car Radios, later Dick Smith Electronics.
- 1969
- Musical Hair provokes controversy over nudity and swearing.
- Death by overdose of English comedian Tony Hancock.
- Large-scale artist Christo creates Wrapped Coast by wrapping part of Little Bay in plastic.
- 1970
- Pope Paul VI makes first papal visit.
- Nimrod Theatre founded.
- Aboriginal Legal Service founded in Redfern.
- Many arrests in Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations.
- 1971
- City of Sydney Strategic Plan created.[103]
- Green Bans begin in Hunters Hill.
- Protests against Springbok rugby union tour.
- First City2Surf fun run and race.
- First McDonald's in Australia opens at Yagoona.[104]
- Qantas pays $500,000 ransom in bomb hoax.
- Ken Rosewall and Margaret Court champions in the last Australia Open tennis tournament held at White City.
- 1972
- Construction workers take over the Sydney Opera House.
- Aboriginal Medical Service established in Redfern.[63]
- Gough Whitlam's Blacktown speech launches successful Labor It's Time federal election campaign.
- Soap opera Number 96 stretches boundaries of what can be shown on TV.
- Cleo magazine for young women founded with Ita Buttrose as editor.
- Fashion designer Carla Zampatti opens first boutique in Surry Hills.
- Rabbi Apple begins 33-year term as Senior Rabbi of Great Synagogue.
Patrick White, 1973
- 1973
- Sydney Opera House opens.
- Patrick White awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Political disturbances in University of Sydney Philosophy Department lead to strike and split in department.[105]
- Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady completed in Redfern.
- 1974
- Elsie Women's Refuge established in Glebe.
- Federal government buys Glebe Estate to begin urban renewal.
- Bob Hawke and Frank Sinatra negotiate deal for Sinatra to continue controversial tour.[106]
- 1975
- Disappearance of activist Juanita Nielsen.
- Savoy Hotel fire kills 15.
- Development begins of Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System.
- Triple J radio begins broadcasting.
- Radio Station 2EA (later SBS Radio) begins broadcasts in multiple languages.
- Premiere of TV comedy The Norman Gunston show with Garry McDonald.
- Gough Whitlam meets Iraqi agents at Blues Point Tower seeking money for electioneering.[107]
- Old Sydney Town theme park opened at Somersby.
- 1976 – Sydney New Year's Eve firework display launched.
- 1977
- Granville train disaster kills 84.
- Sydney Festival begins.
- Harry Seidler-designed MLC Centre opens.
- First Sydney International Piano Competition.
- Lakemba Mosque completed.
- 1978
- First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
- Painter Brett Whiteley wins Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes in same year.
- Hilton bombing kills three.
- Marriage of former Sydney schoolgirl Marie-Christine von Reibnitz to Prince Michael of Kent.
- 1979
- 9 June: 1979 Sydney Ghost Train fire.
- Martin Place pedestrianised.
- Eastern Suburbs railway line opens.
- Sydney Theatre Company founded.
- Teen novel Puberty Blues describes surfing culture in Sutherland Shire.
- Racing identity and crime figure George Freeman survives being shot in the neck.
- Liliana Gasinskaya defects from Russian cruise ship in red bikini.
- 1980
- Collapse of Nugan Hand Bank.
- Publication of the first of Peter Corris's Cliff Hardy detective novels.
- Clive James's memoir Unreliable Memoirs describes his Sydney childhood and youth.
- CPAP machine for sleep apnea developed by Colin Sullivan.
- SBS Television begins broadcasts in multiple languages from studios in Milsons Point.
- Crash at Sydney Airport kills 13.
- 1981
- Sydney Tower opened.
- Drug dealer Warren Lanfranchi shot dead by policeman Roger Rogerson in Chippendale.
- Croatian Six convicted of conspiracy to bomb several targets.
- First edition of Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English.
- Judy Davis/Bryan Brown movie Winter of Our Dreams portrays inner-Sydney life.
- First of 1088 episodes of TV series A Country Practice.
- 1982
- Bombings of Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club.
- First Harvey Norman retail store opened at Auburn.
- 1983
- Hillsong Church established in Baulkham Hills.
- Glenn Murcutt-designed Berowra Waters Inn restaurant opened by Gay and Tony Bilson.
- Golfer Jack Newton loses right arm after walking into propeller at Sydney Airport.
- Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti perform at Opera House benefit concert.
- Movie Careful, He Might Hear You adapts Sumner Locke Elliott's novel of Sydney childhood.
- Beverly Hills Twin Cinema in business.[81]
- 1984
- Victor Chang performs Australia's first successful heart transplant at St Vincent's Hospital.
- Judge's wife killed in Family Court of Australia attacks.
- Seven killed in Milperra massacre bikie shootout.
- Elton John married.[108]
- TV comedy series Mother and Son stars Ruth Cracknell as manipulative mother.
- Rock group INXS achieve No. 1 hit in Australia.
- 1985
- Parliament House rebuilt.
- Granny Smith Festival begins in Eastwood.
- Financial services firm Hill Samuel becomes Macquarie Bank.
- Chief Stipendiary Magistrate Murray Farquhar jailed for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
- Suicide of Dr Harry Bailey while under investigation for deep sleep therapy at Chelmsford Hospital.
- Wonderland theme park opened at Eastern Creek.
- 1986
- This Sporting Life radio comedy with Roy and HG first broadcast.
- Body of Sallie-Anne Huckstepp found in Centennial Park.
- Anita Cobby murder.
- Playing Beatie Bow movie dramatises Ruth Park's young adult novel of time travel in inner Sydney.
- 1987
- David Williamson's play Emerald City satirises Sydney cultural life.
- University of Sydney's Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific established.[109]
- 1988
- Australian Bicentenary events staged including First Fleet Re-enactment on Sydney Harbour.
- Sydney Monorail opens
- University of Technology, Sydney and University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies[109] established.
- Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre and Powerhouse Museum open.
- Kay Cottee completes first women's solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation of world.
- Peter Sculthorpe's composition Kakadu completed.
- Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay and Mount Annan Botanic Garden open near city.
- New South Wales Institute of Technology becomes University of Technology Sydney.
- In secret Kirribilli Agreement, Bob Hawke agrees to hand prime ministership to Paul Keating after 1990.
- 1989
- South Sydney City Council established.[39]
- Area of city: 6.19 square kilometres.[39]
- Neil Perry opens Rockpool restaurant.
- St James Ethics Centre (later The Ethics Centre) founded.
- Three colleges federate to form University of Western Sydney (later Western Sydney University).
Sydney hosts the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- 1990
- Sydney Children's Choir founded.
- Bell Shakespeare company founded by actor John Bell.
- Arrest of "Granny Killer" John Wayne Glover.
- Media tycoon Kerry Packer revived after severe heart attack while playing polo at Warwick Farm.
- Eureka Prizes for science inaugurated.
- 1991
- Sydney Park established.
- Brides of Christ TV miniseries dramatises convent life.
- Heart surgeon Victor Chang shot dead in Mosman.
- Eight dead in Strathfield massacre.
- Museum of Contemporary Art opens in former Maritime Services Board building.
- Fr Chris Riley founds Youth Off The Streets charity.
- James Ruse Agricultural High School begins run of 32 consecutive years as top-ranked school in Higher School Certificate.
- 1992
- Sydney Harbour Tunnel opened.
- Sydney Jewish Museum opened.
- Romantic comedy Strictly Ballroom portrays the world of competitive ballroom dancing.
- Reality TV series Sylvania Waters portrays wealthy suburban life.
- Melina Marchetta's novel Looking for Alibrandi explores growing up in multicultural inner Sydney.
- Paul Keating's Redfern Park Speech calls for new approaches to indigenous policy.
- 1993
- Sydney makes successful bid for 2000 Olympics.
- South Sydney Heritage Society founded.[110]
- Offset Alpine fire raises suspicions of arson.
- Liberal Presbyterian minister Peter Cameron convicted of heresy by church court.
- 1994
- Sydney International Aquatic Centre opens.
- Politician John Newman assassinated in Cabramatta.
- January bushfires penetrate several suburbs.
- Two blank shots fired at Prince Charles by David Kang at Darling Harbour.
- Peter Coleman's Memoirs of a Slow Learner describes literary life of the 1950s.
- 1995
- Anzac Bridge opens.
- Pope John Paul II beatifies Mary MacKillop at Randwick Racecourse.
- Museum of Sydney opens.
- Sydney's first legal casino opens.
- 5T gang's domination of Cabramatta murders and drug trade declines with assassination of its leaders.
- 1996
- Princess Diana attends Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Royal Ball.[111]
- CSIRO patents successful fast wifi technology developed by John O'Sullivan and other scientists.
- New Prime Minister John Howard makes Kirribilli House rather than The Lodge in Canberra his principal residence.[112]
- Rats in the Ranks documentary portrays machinations in Leichhardt Council.
- 1997
- Wood Royal Commission finds widespread corruption in NSW Police Force.
- Asian Australian Artists’ Association Gallery 4A opens.[113]
- The Star, Sydney casino opens.
- First Sydney Writers' Festival.
- Inner West Light Rail opens between Central and Wentworth Park, signalling the return of trams to Sydney after 36 years.
- Suicide of singer Michael Hutchence at Double Bay.
- 1998
- Sydney to Hobart Yacht race leaves Harbour despite storm warning, six yachtsmen killed.
- Filming of The Matrix at Fox Studios and City locations.
- March: State Hockey Centre opens.
- BridgeClimb Sydney commences.
- Water crisis over fears of contamination with pathogens.
- Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority formed to coordinate state-owned Harbour properties.
Cathy Freeman prepares for the 400m final at the Sydney Olympics
- 1999
- 6 March: Stadium Australia opens.
- 4 October: Sydney Super Dome opens.
- 8 December: NSW Tennis Centre opens.
- City Recital Hall opens.
- Lucy Dudko enables escape of prisoner from Silverwater Jail in hijacked helicopter.
- Hailstorm causes damage of around A$2.3bn.
- John Birmingham's Leviathan explores the dark side of Sydney history.
- 2000
- September: City hosts 2000 Summer Olympics & 2000 Summer Paralympics.
- Cathy Freeman lights Olympic flame and carries Australian and Aboriginal flags in victory lap.
- The Dream with Roy and HG provides comic commentary on the Games.
- City of Sydney Historical Association founded.[114]
- Spires of St Mary's Cathedral completed.
- Mary Donaldson meets her future husband, Prince Frederik of Denmark, at the Slip Inn.
- Moulin Rouge! filmed at Fox Studios.
21st century
2000s
- 2001
- Sydney Harbour Federation Trust established.
- Population: 4,128,272.
- Drama film Lantana portrays complex relationships in Sydney suburbia.
- 2002
- Glenn Murcutt awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize.
- Six members of Coogee Dolphins rugby league club killed in Bali bombing.[115]
- Short and Sweet 10-minute play festival founded.
- 2003
- Lowy Institute for International Policy headquartered in city.[109]
- Archbishop Pell appointed cardinal.
- Prominent stockbroker Rene Rivkin found guilty of insider trading.
- Animated movie Finding Nemo features fish escaping Sydney dentist.
- 2004
- 14 February: 2004 Redfern riots.
- City of South Sydney becomes part of City of Sydney.
- Clover Moore begins record-length term as Lord Mayor of Sydney.
- Judicial inquiry criticises James Hardie Industries for evading compensation to victims of asbestos.
- 2005
- December: 2005 Cronulla riots occur near city.
- Macquarie Fields riots.
- Cross City Tunnel opens.
- Businessman Rodney Adler jailed for misconduct related to the collapse of HIH Insurance.
- Sydney Swans Australian Rules football team win AFL Grand Final.
- Bankstown Bites Food Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival begin.
- 2006
- Liberal arts college Campion College opens at Toongabbie.
- Bondi Rescue TV series first broadcast.
- Ursula Dubosarsky's children's book The Red Shoe portrays growing up in 1950s Sydney.
- 2007
- Tight security for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum breached by The Chaser's fake Canadian motorcade.
- Sydney Underground Film Festival begins.
- 2008
- Pope Benedict XVI visits for World Youth Day 2008.
- Bruce Beresford's movie Ladies in Black portrays 1959 department store employees, adapting Madeleine St John's novel The Women in Black.
- 2009
- Dictionary of Sydney launched online.
- Institute for Economics and Peace headquartered in city.
- Festival of Dangerous Ideas begins.
- First Vivid Sydney festival
2010s
A Sydney Metro train
- 2010
- Sydney Desalination Plant at Kurnell begins operation.
- Jessica Watson returns to Sydney after solo round the world voyage.
- 2011
- Population: 4,028,524.[116]
- 2012
- Redevelopment of Barangaroo commences.
- 2013
- Southern Sydney Freight Line opened.
- White Bay Cruise Terminal opened.
- 2014
- 2014 Sydney hostage crisis
- Second Sydney Airport location announced as Badgerys Creek.
- Festival of Dangerous Ideas cancels speech by Hizb ut-Tahrir.[117]
- 2015
- Police worker killed by Islamic terrorist in Parramatta.
- 2017
- Population reaches 5 million, according to the 2016 Australian census.[118]
- Lucrative The Everest horse race first run.
- 2019
- Completion of the Sydney Metro Northwest, the first line of the upcoming Sydney Metro, Australia's first rapid transit system.
- Light Rail opens from Circular Quay to Randwick.
- 2020
- 4 Jan Record high temperature of 48.9 °C (120 °F) recorded at Penrith.[119]
- Disembarkation of Ruby Princess cruise ship leads to cluster of COVID-19 cases.
- Opening of the remaining leg of the Light Rail to Kingsford
See also
- History of Sydney
- List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney
- List of governors of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney
- List of premiers of New South Wales, headquartered in Sydney.
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- John Dunmore Lang (1852), "City of Sydney", Australian Emigrant's Manual, London: Partridge and Oakey
- Sands' Sydney Directory. 1858–1933.
- Stranger's Guide to Sydney. Sydney: James William Waugh. 1861. ISBN 9780908120215.
- Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Sydney". Geography. English Cyclopaedia. Vol. 4. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co. hdl:2027/nyp.33433000064810.
- Handbook to Sydney and Suburbs. Sydney: S.T. Leigh & Company. 1867.
- George Henry Townsend (1867), "Sydney", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- "Australia: Sydney". Street's Indian and Colonial Mercantile Directory. London: G. Street. 1869.
- J.H. Heaton (1879). "Sydney". Australian Dictionary of Dates. Sydney: G. Robertson. ISBN 9780790582641.
- "New South Wales: Sydney". Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer. New York: George Wright. 1881.
- "Towns in New South Wales: Sydney". Australian Handbook (incorporating New Zealand, Fiji, and New Guinea): Shippers' and Importers' Directory & Business Guide. Gordon and Gotch. 1888.
- "New South Wales and its Metropolis". Year-book of Australia for 1891. London. 1891.
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Published in the 20th century
- "Sydney". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Illustrated Guide to Sydney. Sydney: Dymock's Book Arcade and Circulating Library. 1901.
- Old Times, Sydney: Commercial Publishing Co., April 1903
- Annual Report for ... 1903, City of Sydney, 1903
- Annual Report for ... 1904, City of Sydney, 1903
- J.D. Fitzgerald (1906). Greater Sydney and Greater Newcastle. Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Company.
- Norddeutscher Lloyd (1906). "Sydney". 'Lloyd' Guide to Australasia. London: Edward Stanford.
- . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 278–280.
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Sydney", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- K. W. Robinson, 'Sydney, 1850–1952, A Comparison of Developments in the Heart of the City', Australian Geographer, Vol. 6, 1952–1956
- Nineteenth Century Sydney: Essays in Urban History, M. Kelly (ed.), Sydney University Press, 1978
- P.R. Proudfoot (1986). "Changing Patterns of Maritime Activity in Central Sydney". The Great Circle. Australian Association for Maritime History. 8 (1): 33–53. JSTOR 41562715.
- Gail Reekie (1987). ""Humanising Industry": Paternalism, Welfarism and Labour Control in Sydney's Big Stores 1890–1930". Labour History (53): 1–19. doi:10.2307/27508857. JSTOR 27508857.
- Sydney Street Directory, Macquarie Park, N.S.W: Gregory's, 1987, OL 24208759M
- P. Webber, ed. (1988), The Design of Sydney. Sydney: Law Book Company.
- Shirley H. Fitzgerald, Sydney 1842–1992 (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1992)
- Paul Ashton (1993). The accidental city: planning Sydney since 1788. Hale & Iremonger. ISBN 0868064874.
- Hilary Golder (1995), "Electoral History of Sydney 1842–1992", Sydney's History, City of Sydney
- J. Birmingham. (1999), Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney. Knopf.
Published in the 21st century
- Sydney: the Emergence of a World City. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- P. Spearritt. (2000), Sydney's Century: a History. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.
- Sydney, Condensed Guides, Lonely Planet, 2000, OL 8647599M
- "Sydney: On Top of the World Down Under", National Geographic Magazine, USA, vol. 198, 2000
- Ken Bernstein (2003), "Sydney", Pocket Guide Australia, Berlitz, OL 9196697M
- "Sydney". Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003. United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London. 2003.
- John Punter (2004). "From the Ill-Mannered to the Iconic: Design Regulation in Central Sydney 1947–2002". Town Planning Review. 75 (4): 405–445. doi:10.3828/tpr.75.4.3. JSTOR 40112621.
- Jim Bain (2007). A Financial Tale of Two Cities: Sydney and Melbourne's Remarkable Contest for Commercial Supremacy. UNSW Press. ISBN 978-0-86840-963-4.
- History Program (2011). "Exchange: Commercial & Retail Sydney". Historical Walking Tours. City of Sydney.
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