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I feel like nobody understands how wild australian history is so i'm gonna make a thread about the best things (in my opinion) that have happened here.
Please open the thread
Please open the thread
btw this are not in chronological order
Australia was an open air prison for the british 
we had a war against emus and lost
In 2004 the micronation 'Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands!was founded in protest to for gay rights in Australia. When Australia still didnât give in they declared war which Australia ignored meaning they won on default. +
+ Now if you enter the country and are LGBTQ you get automatic citizenship.
The first Australian to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics only won bc he was coming dead last and everyone else fell over
During the 1956 Summer Olympics, a veterinary student from Melbourne ran with a homemade torch and fooled spectators, a police escort and the Lord Mayor of Sydney, into thinking he was the torchbearer of the Olympic flame.
in 1917 an egg was thrown at the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes at a railway station in Queensland.
I canât even describe this one so here;
Bob Hawke was immortalised by the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds in 1954. Bob later became the Prime Minister of Australia.
Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, near Portsea on 17th December 1967, and was never seen again. The event has been referred to as 'the swim that needed no towel' +
+ Australia commemorated said prime ministers death by naming a /swimming pool/ after him.
A football match was once stopped after fans smuggled a pig into the stadium, wrote the name of a big-boned player on the pig's side and then released it onto the ground.
The Australian Capital Territory exists because New South Wales and Victoria kept bickering over which state should be the capital of Australia, it was decided that neither of them would be capital and instead, a new capital would be built in the middle of them both.
In 1832, 300 female convicts mooned the governor of Tasmania. It was said that in a ârare moment of collusion with the Convict women, the ladies in the Governorâs party could not control their laughter.â
When the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened, just as the Premier was about to cut the ribbon, De Groot charged forward on his horse and cut it himself, with his sword.
a cult may or may not have tested the first non-governmental nuclear weapon in Western Australia. Australia is so big though no one is completely sure.
Australia's Capital city, Canberra, meant "woman's cleavage" in Aborigine and was named that because the city is cradled between two mountains.
An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay, with a starting price of A$0.01
An Australian election TV debate was rescheduled so it didnât conflict with the finale of reality cooking show Masterchef
Moomba, Australiaâs largest free festival held in Melbourne, means âup your bumâ in many Aboriginal languages
In 2005, security guards at Canberra's Parliament House were banned from calling people 'mate'. It lasted one day.
A bearded Australian was removed from a darts match in the UK, after the audience started chanting 'Jesus!' at him, distracting the players.
In 1979, debris from NASA's space station 'Skylab' crashed in Esperance, WA. The town then fined NASA $400 for littering.
In 2013, a feral pig stole 18 beers from campers, got drunk, and started a fight with a cow.
Rum was the main currency in colonial Australia. When Gov. William Bligh tried to end the army officers' monopoly in 1808, his government was overthrown in the only coup in Australian history.
Bushranger Moondyne Joe escaped jail so many times the government built a special cell to hold him. The governor said: "If you get out again, I'll forgive you." He escaped and was released when captured.
In 1979 police battled 4,000 rioters in Newcastle angry at the closure of the city's Star Hotel pub.
and this one isn't a moment in history but there are officially 65,486 Jedi in Australia making Jedi the 18th biggest religion.
end of thread
if you know any others feel free to tell me them 
