Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/October/October 7

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• 1798 - George Bass and Matthew Flinders leave Sydney to explore Van Diemen's Land.
• 1816 - Reverend Samuel Leigh opens that first Methodist church in Australia, at Castlereagh, New South Wales.
• 1830 - The ‘Black Line’ campaign of the Black War begins in an attempt to capture all Tasmanian Aborigines. The campaign lasts 7 weeks and only succeeds in bringing two Aborigines to the authorities.
• 1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC, 19th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Melbourne.
• 1919 - Death of Alfred Deakin, leader of the movement for Australian federation and second Prime Minister of Australia, aged 63.
• 1935 - Thomas Keneally, novelist and author of Schindler's List, was born in Homebush, New South Wales.
• 1941 - John Curtin becomes the fourteenth Prime Minister of Australia.