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Philip Gidley King

• 1788 – Lieutenant Philip Gidley King takes formal possession of Norfolk Island.
• 1812 – Two Wesleyan Methodist classes were established in Sydney by Thomas Bowden and John Hosking – the beginning of Methodism in Australia.
• 1837 – The Theatre Royal in Hobart opened. It remains Australia's oldest working theatre.
• 1963 – Moe becomes a city.
• 1989 – Former National Safety Council of Australia boss John Friedrich is arrested in Western Australia on AUDS$237 million fraud charges.