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Circular Quay on Anniversary Day 1866

Circular Quay on Anniversary Day 1866

By

John Rider Roberts

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State Library of New South Wales

[SV1/HAR/CIRC/4]

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Roberts, John Rider

State Library of New South Wales

Celebration of Anniversary Day to 1900

Still celebrated as Australia Day, the anniversary of the arrival of the European settlers at Sydney was called Anniversary Day during the nineteenth century. The convict origins of the colony were glossed over and present achievements were emphasised in official functions, but ordinary Sydneysiders marked the holiday with picnics, regattas, sports and fireworks, much as they do today.

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Australia Day

Public holiday marking the landing of the first fleet in Port Jackson, celebrated in Sydney throughout the nineteenth century as Anniversary Day, and gradually taken up by other states after Federation. The public holiday has been held on 26 January nationwide since 1994.

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Circular Quay

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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.