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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Springbok tour 1971 Tour
St David's Day Festival
St Nicolaas's Day Festival
St Patrick's Day Festival
St Patrick's Day riot Riot
Stanley Awards Prize or award
Sudan War 1885 War or military engagement
Sulman Award Prize or award
Sulman Prize Prize or award
Survival Day Anniversary
Survival Festival Concert Cultural
Sydney Eisteddfod Cultural
Sydney Film Festival Cultural
Sydney Māori Festival Festival
Sydney Olympic Arts Festival 2000 Cultural
Sydney to Hobart yacht race Sporting event
Sydney Underground Film Festival Cultural
Tet Nguyen Dan Festival
Tet Trung Thu Festival
The First Governor – a Bicentenary Symposium on Arthur Phillip Conference or meeting
The Rocks Windmill festival 2013 Cultural
Three Shilling Theatre Performance
Tropfest Cultural
Urban Kooris 1986 Exhibition
Vietnam War War or military engagement
Waratah Spring Festival Festival
Warringah Eisteddfod Performance
World Masters Games 2009 Sporting event
World Radio Convention 1938 Conference or meeting
World Surfing Championships Manly 1964 Sporting event
World War I War or military engagement
World War II
Wynne Prize Prize or award
Yoo-long Erah-ba-diahng 1795 Ceremony

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Springbok tour 1971

Australian tour by South African rugby union team which was disrupted by anti-apartheid protesters.

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Tour

St David's Day

Feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, on March 1 which is celebrated by Welsh communities around the world with parties and eisteddfod.

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Festival

St Nicolaas's Day

Traditional holiday celebrated in the Netherlands, Belgium and northern France and wherever Dutch migrants settled. Also referred to as Sinterklaas, it is held on December 5.

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St Patrick's Day

Cultural and religious festival commemorating the date of death of the patron saint of Ireland which is celebrated worldwide on March 17th.

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St Patrick's Day riot

Riot in Hyde Park on 17 March 1878 when a second anti-Catholic sermon by Pastor Daniel Allen inflamed both Catholic and Protestant passions.

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Riot

Stanley Awards

Award by the Australian Cartoonists' Association to acknowledge and celebrate the best in cartooning, comic book art, illustration and caricature.

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Prize or award

Sudan War 1885

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In March 1885, the New South Wales Contingent departed from Sydney to participate in a British colonial conflict in Sudan, the first time that Australian soldiers had been sent to fight overseas. The contingent comprised 758 soldiers.  Hostilities had ended before the Australians arrived and the Contingent returned in May 1885. Nine men were lost through illness.

War or military engagement

Sulman Award

Award for architectural excellence in public and commercial buildings presented since 1932 by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter).

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Sulman Prize

Award for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.

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Survival Day

Survival Day or Invasion Day is an annual event and demostration organised by Aboriginal people across Australia on 26th January in opposition to the official Australia Day celebrations. The first events took place during the Bicentenary celebrations in 1988.

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Anniversary

Survival Festival Concert

Celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music, performance, visual art and culture held annually since 1998.

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Cultural

Sydney Eisteddfod

Annual festival run intermittently from 1892 until the 1920s before being revived in its present form in 1933. The festival of music, song, dance and drama run by an independent community based non profit organisation which is the largest and most successful festival of its type in the world.

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Sydney Film Festival

Annual festival which runs for 12 days in June to showcase international and local productions.

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Sydney Māori Festival

Māori cultural festival first held in Sydney in 1979.

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Sydney Olympic Arts Festival 2000

Cultural festival showcasing Australia's creative and performing arts, held in conjunction with the Sydney Olympics in Aug-Sept 2000.

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Sydney to Hobart yacht race

Yacht race which starts from Sydney Harbour at 1 pm on Boxing Day, 26 December, as it has done since 1945.

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Sporting event

Sydney Underground Film Festival

Annual film festival since 2007 specialising in alternative and experimental films.

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Tet Nguyen Dan

Vietnamese festival beginning on the first day of the first lunar month. Vietnam's most popular festival, it marks the beginning of the lunar new year and the arrival of spring.

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Tet Trung Thu

Popular Vietnamese harvest festival which focuses on family and children.

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The First Governor – a Bicentenary Symposium on Arthur Phillip

Symposium held at the Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House on the corner of Phillip and Bridge streets in September 2014 to commemorate Phillip and his legacy on the bicentennial anniversary of his death.

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Conference or meeting

The Rocks Windmill festival 2013

Festival event created by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority between 12 April and 12 May 2013 in a temporary four storey timber windmill in Rocks Square on the site of an early Sydney mill. The windmill acted as an educational workshop and performance venue over the festival period.

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Three Shilling Theatre

Short-lived lunch time theatre program performed at the Palace Theatre where patrons could eat their sandwiches during a 40 minute performance.

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Performance

Tropfest

Annual short film festival.

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Urban Kooris 1986

Exhibition of urban Koori art at the Workshop Arts Centre in Willoughby which targeted public consciousness of the racial history of the country.

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Exhibition

Vietnam War

Australian involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1962 and officially ended in 1973, although the war continued until 1975. More than 60,000 Australians served in the conflict of whom 521 died and more than 3,000 were wounded. The war caused considerable social and political dissent in Australia.

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Waratah Spring Festival

Festival and parade held in Sydney between 1956 and 1973.

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Warringah Eisteddfod

Local eisteddfod formerly in Warringah Shire, later expanded and renamed the Northern Beaches Eisteddfod.

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World Masters Games 2009

International multi-sport event held about every four years and open to all sportspeople over age 35.

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World Radio Convention 1938

Conference to discuss advances in marine and aircraft communications, broadcasting, television and sound projection with engineers assembling from around the world.

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World Surfing Championships Manly 1964

First international surfboard riding championship, won by Sydney rider 'Midget' Farrelly.

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World War I

International war between the Allies (Britain and its dominions, France, Russia, Italy and the USA) and Central Powers (Germany and Austria–Hungary,Turkey and Bulgaria) that was fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East. It began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. Australia's involvement in the war began on 4 August 1914 when Britain and Germany went to war and Australia, as one of Britain's dominions, pledged full support. Australians fought in the British and Australian armies.

While no battles took place on Australian soil, Australian involvement in the conflict had both immediate and long term impacts on the local community.

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World War II

Global conflict during the years 1939–1945. Australia's involvement in the second world war began with Prime Minister Robert Menzies' radio announcement on 3 September 1939 that the country was at war, and ended with Japan's unconditional surrender on 14 August 1945. As a member of the British Commonwealth, Australia fought with the alliance of powers known as the Allies (Great Britain, France, United States of America, the Soviet Union and China) against the Axis powers (Germany, Japan, Italy). More than a million Australians served, and for the first time the country came under direct military attack.

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Wynne Prize

Annual award for the 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists', judged by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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Yoo-long Erah-ba-diahng 1795

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An Aboriginal rite of passage in February 1795 at Woccanmagully (Farm Cove), involving Colebee and Nanbarry, in which boys were made men after ordeals that concluded when their upper right front tooth was knocked out.

Ceremony