Modern Sydney · event 7 of 14

1978

The first Mardi Gras. A march on Oxford Street is broken up by police and 53 people are arrested. The state parliament formally apologises in 2016.

The Modern Sydney era

  1. 1947 onwards
  2. 1957
  3. 1966
  4. 1967
  5. 1973
  6. 1971–1974
  7. 1978
  8. 1992
  9. 2000
  10. 2007
  11. 2014–2021
  12. 2015
  13. 2023
  14. August 2024

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