What Major Historical events ahve happened to Sydney Australia?
1770 – Capt James Cook landed at Botany bay. 1788 – Site of the first major European settlement on the Australian continent – the settlement later named Sydney. 1929 Great depression hit Sydney badly 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge completed 1938 Hosted British Empire Games (now called Commonweath Games). 1973 Sydney Opera House opened. 1986 flash floods 1994 Sydney Bushfires (see link below) 1999 Hailstorm – costliest natural disaster in Australian insurance history 2000 Hosted the Olympic Games 2001/2002 Sydney Bushfires 2003 Hosted Rugby World Cup 2007 Hosted APEC leaders (21 countries) 2008 Hosted world youth day (Catholic) 2008 Personal Note: My brother and his family were living in Gosford just north of Sydney during the 1994 Bush fires. At its worst the fires melted the F3 freeway and cut him off from where he worked in Sydney and his home. He chose to ride out the worst staying with friends in Sydney. Meanwhile his wife couldn’t be contacted either because she and his kids had been
