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Anniversary

• Anzac Day
• Australia Day
• Empire Day
• Marrickville Centenary Fair 1961
• New Year fireworks 2000
• Sesquicentenary of European settlement of Australia 1938
• Survival Day

Archaeological site

• Excavation of Sheas Creek 1896

Campaign

• Battle of The Rocks
• Green Bans
• Hands off China campaign 1938
• Save Callan Park campaign
• Six O'Clock Closing

Celebration

• Federation of the Commonwealth of Australia celebrations 1901

Ceremony

• Annual Pere Receveur Commemoration Mass
• Blessing of the Fleet
• Brookvale processione
• Dawn Service
• Inauguration of the Commonwealth celebrations Centennial Park 1901
• Yoo-long Erah-ba-diahng 1795

Conference or meeting

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting 2007
• Convention of Australasian Advertising Men 1920
• International Eucharistic Congress 1928
• Native Conference Parramatta
• New Education Fellowship Conference 1937
• The First Governor – a Bicentenary Symposium on Arthur Phillip
• World Radio Convention 1938

Crime

• 2014 Lindt Cafe Siege
• Assassination attempt on Prince Alfred 1868
• Bank of Australia robbery 1828
• Bridge Street Affray
• Eveleigh Railway Workshop robbery
• Glenfield siege 1968
• Graeme Thorne kidnapping 1960
• Hilton hotel bombing 1978
• Mount Rennie rape case
• Razor Gang wars
• Shark Arm murder 1935
• Strathfield massacre 17 August 1991

Cultural

• Artists' Balls
• Black and White Ball
• Ern Malley Hoax
• Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
• Survival Festival Concert
• Sydney Eisteddfod
• Sydney Film Festival
• Sydney Olympic Arts Festival 2000
• Sydney Underground Film Festival
• The Rocks Windmill festival 2013
• Tropfest

Disaster

• 1994 Eastern seaboard bushfires
• Black Sunday surf rescue 1938
• Coogee Beach surf rescue 1911
• Hawkesbury River flood 1867
• Maroubra Beach surf rescue 1944

Epidemic

• AIDS
• Asiatic flu pandemic 1890-91
• Bubonic plague epidemic 1900
• Measles epidemic 1867
• Scarlet fever epidemic 1875-76
• Smallpox epidemic 1789
• Smallpox epidemic 1881
• Spanish influenza epidemic 1918-19

Exhibition

• An Exhibition of Pictures of Old Sydney
• Bohemians in the Bush
• Burdekin House Exhibition
• Conversazione
• Industrial and Art Exhibition 1861
• Intercolonial Exhibition 1870
• International Exhibition 1879
• Koori Art '84
• Parramatta Industrial Juvenile Exhibition 1883
• Urban Kooris 1986

Expedition

• European crossing of the Blue Mountains 1813
• Japanese Antarctic expedition 1910-1912

Festival

• August Moon festival
• Australasian Scout Jamboree 1938-39
• Biennale of Sydney
• Carnivale
• Chalk Urban Art Festival
• Chinese Festival 1938
• Chinese New Year
• Festival of Fishers Ghost
• Festival of Sydney
• Flickerfest
• Granny Smith Festival
• Great Inflatable Film Festival
• Hollandse Kermis
• International Women's Day
• Italian Film Festival
• Kultūras Dienas
• Lantern Festival
• Leura Gardens Festival
• Marrickville Festival
• McAlister Day Fair 2000
• New South Wales Holland Festival
• Orange Blossom Festival
• Oranje Fest
• Qing Ming Festival
• Ritmo Brazilian Festival
• Russian Resurrection Film Festival
• Scottish Week
• Shell National Folkloric Festival
• St Albans Writers Festival
• St David's Day
• St Nicolaas's Day
• St Patrick's Day
• Sydney Māori Festival
• Tet Nguyen Dan
• Tet Trung Thu
• Waratah Spring Festival

Fire

• 1994 Eastern seaboard bushfires
• Garden Palace fire 1882
• Great fire in the city, October 1890
• Luna Park Ghost Train fire 1979

Flood

• Hawkesbury River flood 1867

Industrial dispute

• 1890s strikes
• Great Strike 1917

Inquiry

• Bigge Commission of Inquiry into the State of the Colony of New South Wales
• Fisheries Inquiry Commission 1880
• Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care 2004
• Inquiry into Female Convict Prison Discipline 1841
• Intoxicating Drink Inquiry Commission
• New South Wales Joint Parliamentary Inquiry into Aboriginal Welfare 1967
• Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry into New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board 1937
• Select Committee on the Condition of the Aborigines 1845
• Select Committee on the Condition of the Working Classes of the Metropolis 1859-60

Market

• Leura Village Fair

Massacre

• Appin massacre

Performance

• Carols by Candlelight
• Crown Matrimonial
• Godspell
• Graeme Murphy's Tivoli
• Hair
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Oratorio of 1836
• Puss in Boots
• Rolling Stones concert Enmore Theatre 2003
• Schools Spectacular
• Three Shilling Theatre
• Warringah Eisteddfod

Prize or award

• Archibald Prize
• Clarke Medal
• Coral Thomas Fellowship
• Dagmar Berne Prize
• Edgeworth David Medal
• James Cook Medal
• Margaret Flockton Award
• Marrickville Medal for Conservation
• Miles Franklin Literary Award
• Miss Australia Quest
• Patrick White Literary Award
• Stanley Awards
• Sulman Award
• Sulman Prize
• Wynne Prize

Protest

• Black Moratorium
• Day of Mourning 1938
• Freedom Ride
• Long March for Justice, Freedom and Hope

Rebellion

• Castle Hill convict rebellion 1804
• Rum Rebellion 1808-09

Referendum

• Conscription referendum 1916
• Conscription referendum 1917
• Liquor Referendum Act, No 10, 1916

Riot

• Cronulla riots 2005
• Macquarie Fields riots 2005
• Parramatta Female Factory riot 1827
• Soldiers' riot 1916
• St Patrick's Day riot

Royal Commission

• Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and Its Suburbs 1908
• Royal Commission into Alleged Chinese Gambling and Immorality 1891
• Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
• Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons 1978
• Royal Commission into Noxious and Offensive Trades 1882
• Royal Commission into Public Charities 1873
• Royal Commission into Saturday Half Holiday 1909
• Royal Commission Into the Condition of the Harbour of Port Jackson 1866
• Royal Commission into the former Chelmsford Private Hospital and Mental Health Services in New South Wales 1988-1990
• Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service 1994
• Royal Commission of Enquiry into certain cases of alleged Kidnapping of Natives of the Loyalty Islands 1869
• Royal Commission of Inquiry into the case of George Dean 1895
• Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Management of the Quarantine Station North Head and the hulk Faraway 1881
• Royal Commission on a Charge against Sergeant James Hogg 1902
• Royal Commission on City and Suburban Railways 1890
• Royal Commission on Communication between Sydney and North Sydney 1908
• Royal Commission on Liquor Laws in New South Wales 1951-54
• Royal Commission on Local Government Boundaries 1945
• Royal Commission on Primary, Secondary, Technical and other Branches of Education 1902
• Royal Commission on Strikes 1890
• Royal Commission on the Conservation of Water 1887
• Royal Commission on the Decline of the Birth-Rate and on the Mortality of Infants in New South Wales 1904
• Royal Intercolonial Rabbit Commission 1888

Show

• Big Day Out
• Camden Show
• Manly Wildflower Show
• Opera in the Park
• Royal Easter Show

Sporting event

• Aboriginal cricket tour 1868
• Anniversary Day Regatta
• Australian Grand Prix
• Australian Touring Car Championship
• Botany Bay Gift
• Davis Cup 1909
• Derby Day
• Empire Games 1938
• Goulburn-to-Sydney Cycling Classic
• Greenwich Village Games
• Hajduk Split football tour 1949
• Head of the River regatta
• Highland Gathering
• Intercolonial cricket matches
• National Rugby League
• New South Wales Annual Aboriginal Rugby League Knockout
• Olympic Games 2000
• Paralympic Games 2000
• Rosehill Guineas
• Rugby Union World Cup 1987
• Sydney to Hobart yacht race
• World Masters Games 2009
• World Surfing Championships Manly 1964

Storm

• Dandenong gale 1876

Tour

• Arrival of Ross and Keith Smith at Mascot 14 February 1920
• Cooper Bailey & Co circus tour 1876
• Great White Fleet visit 1908
• Old Vic Theatre tour 1948
• Royal Tour 1954
• Springbok tour 1971

Transport disaster

• Berala train accident 1952
• Cowan Bank rail accident 6 May 1990
• Dunbar shipwreck 1857
• Edward Lombe shipwreck 1834
• Granville rail disaster
• Greycliffe shipwreck 1927
• Haslams Creek railway accident 1858
• Rodney ferry accident 1938

War or military engagement

• Boer War
• Japanese submarine attack 1942
• Sudan War 1885
• Vietnam War
• World War I

Lottery

• Bank of Australia Lottery

Execution

• Execution of Thomas Barrett 27 February 1788