2 January —
Australian philately proper begins in early 1913 with the
Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".
21 June —
HMAS Australia, commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to Australia to become the Australian
flagship.
1 to 31 August — With an average rainfall of 0.24 millimetres or 0.0094 inches, this is the driest area-averaged month over Queensland since at least 1900.[1]
Royal Commission appointed to inquire into certain charges against Henry Chinn; Chinn was supervising engineer for the transcontinental railway in Western Australia.
The first
totalisator, an entirely mechanical system invented by the Australian
George Julius of Julius Poole & Gibson Pty Ltd, was installed at
Ellerslie Racecourse in New Zealand.
Arts and literature
'Inamorata melodie nuptiale for piano' 1913 by George De Cairos Rego (1858-1946)
^Chris Cunneen (1986). Geoff Serle (ed.).
Lyne, Sir William John (1844–1913). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
2 January —
Australian philately proper begins in early 1913 with the
Kangaroo and Map series of stamps, featuring a kangaroo standing on a map of Australia, and inscribed "AUSTRALIA POSTAGE".
21 June —
HMAS Australia, commissioned at Portsmouth and sailed to Australia to become the Australian
flagship.
1 to 31 August — With an average rainfall of 0.24 millimetres or 0.0094 inches, this is the driest area-averaged month over Queensland since at least 1900.[1]
Royal Commission appointed to inquire into certain charges against Henry Chinn; Chinn was supervising engineer for the transcontinental railway in Western Australia.
The first
totalisator, an entirely mechanical system invented by the Australian
George Julius of Julius Poole & Gibson Pty Ltd, was installed at
Ellerslie Racecourse in New Zealand.
Arts and literature
'Inamorata melodie nuptiale for piano' 1913 by George De Cairos Rego (1858-1946)
^Chris Cunneen (1986). Geoff Serle (ed.).
Lyne, Sir William John (1844–1913). Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Melbourne University Press. Retrieved 3 January 2022.