Browse through the NSW state archives day by day and month by month.
Highlights for September include: 1922 the poet and writer Henry Lawson died (2nd); 1955 the NSW Government launched a competition for an international design for an Opera House at Bennelong Point in Sydney (13th); 1797 coal was officially discovered in the Newcastle region by Lieutenant John Shortland (18th); 1882 the Garden Palace fire occurred (22nd); 1857 a mass funeral was held for those who died in the shipwreck of the Dunbar on 20 August (24th); 1882 the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital was officially opened (25th); 1855 the first railway line in NSW was opened (26th); 1973 the first public performance in the newly completed Sydney Opera House took place (28th); 1813 the ‘holey dollar’ and ‘dump’ coins became legal tender in NSW (30th).
