Federation & Growth · event 4 of 9

1898

The Queen Victoria Building. Built as a market hall in the depression of the 1890s, deliberately over-finished to give work to unemployed craftsmen.

The Federation & Growth era

  1. 1851
  2. 1879
  3. 1888
  4. 1898
  5. 1900
  6. 1 January 1901
  7. 1907
  8. 1932
  9. May 1942

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