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Orange Blossom Festival	Festival
Oranje Fest	Festival
Oratorio of 1836	Performance
Paralympic Games 2000	Sporting event
Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board 1937	Inquiry
Parramatta Female Factory riot 1827	Riot
Parramatta Industrial Juvenile Exhibition 1883	Exhibition
Patrick White Literary Award	Prize or award
Puss in Boots	Performance
Qing Ming Festival	Festival
Razor Gang wars	Crime
Ritmo Brazilian Festival	Festival
Rodney ferry accident 1938	Transport disaster
Rolling Stones concert Enmore Theatre 2003	Performance
Rosehill Guineas	Sporting event
Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and Its Suburbs 1908	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into Alleged Chinese Gambling and Immorality 1891	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons 1978	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into Noxious and Offensive Trades 1882	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into Public Charities 1873	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into Saturday Half Holiday 1909	Royal Commission
Royal Commission Into the Condition of the Harbour of Port Jackson 1866	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into the former Chelmsford Private Hospital and Mental Health Services in New South Wales 1988-1990	Royal Commission
Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service 1994	Royal Commission
Royal Commission of Enquiry into certain cases of alleged Kidnapping of Natives of the Loyalty Islands 1869	Royal Commission
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the case of George Dean 1895	Royal Commission
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Management of the Quarantine Station North Head and the hulk Faraway 1881	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on a Charge against Sergeant James Hogg 1902	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on City and Suburban Railways 1890	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on Communication between Sydney and North Sydney 1908	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on Liquor Laws in New South Wales 1951-54	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on Local Government Boundaries 1945	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on Primary, Secondary, Technical and other Branches of Education 1902	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on Strikes 1890	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on the Conservation of Water 1887	Royal Commission
Royal Commission on the Decline of the Birth-Rate and on the Mortality of Infants in New South Wales 1904	Royal Commission
Royal Easter Show	Show
Royal Intercolonial Rabbit Commission 1888	Royal Commission
Royal Tour 1954	Tour
Rugby Union World Cup 1987	Sporting event
Rum Rebellion 1808-09	Rebellion
Russian Resurrection Film Festival	Festival
Save Callan Park campaign	Campaign
Scarlet fever epidemic 1875-76	Epidemic
Schools Spectacular	Performance
Scottish Week	Festival
Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines 1845	Inquiry
Select Committee on the Condition of the Working Classes of the Metropolis 1859-60	Inquiry
Sesquicentenary of European settlement of Australia 1938	Anniversary