Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/March/March 28

Robert Hoddle with his omnipresent surveying telescope

• 1837 – The Hoddle Grid of streets for Melbourne's central business district is surveyed by Robert Hoddle.
• 1885 – HMQS Gayundah arrives in Brisbane. The Captain refuses to relinquish his command and is removed by a boarding party of Queensland Police.
• 1942 – The first shipload of 8398 American servicemen arrive in Sydney for action in the Pacific theater.