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6000

5000

4000

3000

2000

1000

0

Telstra privatised

OCT 2019Climb to the top of

Uluru officially closed

JUN 2019Ash Barty

becomeswomen’s

tennisworld No.1

JAN 2020Bushfires ravage over 17M hectares across Australia

MAR 2020WHO announces COVID-19 pandemic

JUN 2020 Black Lives Matter

protests held globally

DEC 202071+M COVID-19 cases world-wide and 1.6M deaths

State of disaster declared and Victoria goes into hard lock-down

APR 20201M COVID-19 cases world-wide

MAY 2020SpaceX becomes first private company to send humans to the International Space Station

FEB 1990Nelson

Mandelafreed

JAN 1992First Big Day Out

music festival held in Sydney

NOV 1992Smartphone

invented

NOV 1990Tim Berners-Lee

invents WorldWide Web (www)

SEP 1992Mars Observer launched into space by NASA

SEP 2000Sydney Olympic Games

SEP 2001Lleyton Hewittwins US Open

OCT 2001First Apple iPod goes on sale

MAY 2004Mary Donaldson

marries Crown Prince Frederik

AUG 2004Ian Thorpe becomes Australia’s greatest

Olympian

FEB 2004FACEBOOK

founded NOV 2005Makybe Diva wins record third Melbourne Cup

FEB 2008Apology to the Stolen Generation

APR 2013Australian population

reaches 23M

JUL 2011NASA’s final space shuttle mission

SEP 1995DVD invented

SEP 1995eBay founded

APR 2011Royal wedding of

Prince William and Kate Middleton MAY 2018

Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Megan Markle

APR 2018Commonwealth Games

held on Gold Coast

MAY 1988New Parliament House opens in Canberra

FEB 2002Australia’s first Winter Olympic Games gold medal

NOV 2007Mick Fanning wins

his first surf title

DEC 2007Australia signs

Kyoto Protocol on climate change

MAY 2010Jessica Watson,

youngest person to sail around the world

SEP 2008Hunger Gamespublished

Australian dollar drops below 50US cents for

the first timeBerlin Wall falls

Black MondaySharemarket crash Major recession

Gulf War

End of Soviet Union andCold War

Compulsory superannuation introduced

European Unionestablished

John Howard Prime Minister

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule from UK rule

9/11 attacks on US

Collapse of HIH, One-tel and Ansett Airlines

Dot Com bubble bursts Technology stock prices plunge

Eurointroduced

Boxing Day tsunami

Hurricane Katrina

ASX & SFE merger

Global Financial Crisis

Kevin Rudd Prime Minister

Barack Obama US President

Julia Gillard Prime Minister

Record iron ore/coal prices

Formation ofthe Australian Stock Exchange

George H.W. Bush US

President

ASX trading floors close, replaced by

computerised trading

Commonwealth Bank privatised

Paul KeatingPrime Minister

Bill ClintonUS President

Signature of North American Free Trade Agreement between US, Canada and Mexico

Nelson Mandela

South African

President

Dow Jones closes above

5,000 for the first time

Qantas privatised

Asian financial

crisis

ASX demutualises and becomes a listed company

Oil prices record low US$17

GST introduced

George W. BushUS President

Kevin Rudd Prime Minister

European debt crisis

Greek Governmentdebt crisis

Invasion of Iraq

SARS virus hits Beijing

Oil prices record high US$145

$42bn National Building Economic Stimulus Plan

Arab Spring protests

Tony Abbott Prime Minister

Donald Trump US President

Free trade agreement

signed with China

JUN 2016Brexit – UK votes

to leave the EU

DEC 2017Bitcoin hits new record high just shy of $20,000

NOV 1999Australia wins Rugby World Cup

JUL 1996Dolly the sheep,

first cloned mammal

SEP 1998Google founded

Negative interest rates

in Europeand Japan

Summit meeting between U.S. President

Donald Trump and North Korean Leader

Kim Jong-un

Australian Interest rates hit record low

of 0.75%

ASX reaches all-time high of

7,162 points

COVID-19 takes hold and ASX drops

Malcolm Turnbull

Prime Minister

JUN 1997Harry Potter andthe Philosopher’sStone published

JUN-JUL 2014Soccer World

Cup Brazil

JAN 1988Australia celebrates

its bicentenary

APR-OCT 1988World Expo 88

held in Brisbane

Scott Morrison

Prime Minister

Brexit – UK leaves the

EU

COVID-19 vaccination programs start in UK and US

Outbreak in Northern Beaches. All states close borders to greater Sydney

US elections takes place – Joe Biden wins and Trump refuses to concede

RBA drops interest ratesto all-time low

ASX rallies and shows strong recovery

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