Sydney timeline since SMH was first published in 1831

By Damien Murphy
Updated April 18 2016 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Frank McAlary, dubbed The Dancing Man, twirls through the Sydney streets on Victory in the Pacific day, 15 August 1945.
Frank McAlary, dubbed The Dancing Man, twirls through the Sydney streets on Victory in the Pacific day, 15 August 1945.

1831: 18 April, the Sydney Herald was first published. It later became the Sydney Morning Herald. Coincidentally, Australia's first novel, Quintus Servinton: A Tale founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence written by the forger Henry Savery​, was also published.

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