Federation & Growth · event 8 of 9

1932

The Harbour Bridge opens. Eight years of construction, six million rivets, sixteen deaths — and a man on a horse who slashes the ribbon with a sword before the Premier can cut it.

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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