Australian Events
Posted in 1919
- Australia, with Billy Hughes as Prime Minister, has a prominent place at the Paris meeting of nations that decides the fate of the defeated Germany and reshapes the map of Europe and the colonial world.
- Brothers Ross and Keith Smith and their crew become the first people to fly between England and Australia. The flight takes 27 days and 20 hours in a Vickers Vimy. It earns the brothers a £10,000 prize offered by the government to the first Australian airmen to complete the flight in less than 30 consecutive days before December 31.
- Influenza epidemic claims the lives of 11,552 Australians.
- Jules Archibald bequeaths a sum of money to fund an annual portrait painting competition.
Australia, with Billy Hughes as Prime Minister, has a prominent place at the Paris meeting of nations that decides the fate of the defeated Germany and reshapes the map of Europe and the colonial world.
Influenza epidemic claims the lives of 11,552 Australians.
