The following lists events that happened during 1913 in Australia .
Events
2 January — Australian philately proper begins in early 1913 with the Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".
12 March — Canberra is named by Gertrude Denman
1 May — The first national banknotes were introduced in denominations of 10 shillings, and 1, 5, and 10 pounds.
31 May — 1913 Australian referendum contained six questions: Trade and Commerce , Corporations , Industrial Matters , Trusts , Monopolies , Railway Disputes . None of these were carried.
21 June — HMAS Australia , commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to Australia to become the Royal Australian Navy flagship .
24 June — Joseph Cook becomes the 6th prime minister .[ 1]
1 to 31 August — With an average rainfall of 0.24 millimetres or 0.0094 inches , this is the driest area-averaged month over Queensland since at least 1900.[ 2]
Royal Commission appointed to inquire into certain charges against Henry Chinn; Chinn was supervising engineer for the transcontinental railway in Western Australia.Royal Commission on Northern Territory railways and ports
Royal Commission on powellised timber
Golden Fleece Company acquired by Caltex in 1981The Workers' Educational Association founded; it is Australia's largest non-government adult community education organisation.
From 1859 until 1913, a squadron of the Royal Navy was maintained in Australian waters.
Norfolk Island Act 1913 meant that Norfolk Island became an Australia Territory under the authority of the Australian Commonwealth.
Science and technology
Amalgamation took place between Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and the Australian Wireless Company forming AWA .
The first totalisator , an entirely mechanical system invented by the Australian George Julius of Julius Poole & Gibson, was installed at Ellerslie Racecourse in New Zealand.
Births
24 January – Ray Stehr , rugby league footballer (d. 1983)10 February – Bill White , rugby union footballer (d. 1969)11 February – Clyde Cameron , Whitlam government minister (d. 2008)20 February – Dame Mary Durack , author and historian (d. 1994)5 March – Darby Munro , jockey (d. 1966)19 March – Smoky Dawson , country music performer (d. 2008)3 April – William Refshauge , soldier and public health administrator (d. 2009)4 April – Dave Brown , rugby league footballer (d. 1974)20 June – David McNicol , public servant and diplomat (d. 2001)1 July – Noel Miller , cricketer (d. 2007 )2 August – Nancy Phelan , writer (d. 2008 )14 August – Hector Crawford , Australian television producer (d. 1991)6 September – Ken Kennedy , speed skater and ice hockey player (d. 1985)2 October – Dame Roma Mitchell , 31st Governor of South Australia (d. 2000)24 October – Ron Barassi Sr. , Australian rules footballer (d. 1941)30 October – Edgar Britt , jockey (d. 2017)30 December – Elyne Mitchell , author (d. 2002)
Deaths
William Lyne 3 January – Garnet Walch , writer, journalist and publisher (b. 1843)4 February – James Styles , Victorian politician (born in the United Kingdom) (b. 1841)18 February – George Lewis Becke , trader and writer (b. 1855)4 June – Ambrose Dyson , illustrator and political cartoonist (b. 1876)6 July – J. C. Williamson , actor (born in the United States and died in France ) (b. 1844)20 July – Joseph Vardon , South Australian politician and printer (b. 1843 )3 August – William Lyne , 13th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1844)[ 3] 25 August – William Knox , Victorian politician and businessman (died in the United Kingdom ) (b. 1850)12 November – Sir John George Davies , Tasmanian politician, newspaper proprietor and cricketer (b. 1846)25 November – Charlie Frazer – Western Australian politician (b. 1880)
References
1913 in Oceania
Sovereign states
Australia Federated States of Micronesia
Fiji
Indonesia
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Nauru
New Zealand Palau
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu Associated states
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