1880 in Australia

Events

20 January - Bushranger Captain Moonlite (real name Andrew George Scott) hanged in Sydney.
31 January - The Bulletin magazine is first published
16 April - School is made compulsory for children aged 6 to 14 in New South Wales.
28 June Ned Kelly captured at Glenrowan, Victoria.
1 October - The Melbourne International Exhibition is opened at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton.
10 October - Geologist Lamont Young and four others disappear on a boat trip north from Bermagui, New South Wales.
11 November - Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
23 November - Redmond Barry, the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly to be hanged, dies just twelve days after Kelly was hanged.
Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.

2 February - The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrived in London aboard the SS Strathleven.