Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/June/June 14

Turon River close to Sofala on the road to Hill End

• 1825 – Van Diemen's Land is separated administratively from New South Wales, it becomes fully independent in December.
• 1851 – Gold discovered at the Turon River, New South Wales, the diggings became the richest in New South Wales.
• 1883 – Trains link Sydney and Melbourne.
• 1893 – Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia by Paddy Hannan and two others.
• 1943 – Forty American service personnel are killed in Australia's deadliest aviation disaster at Bakers Creek, Queensland.
• 1968 – Pacifist Simon Townsend (later TV entertainer) was granted exemption from National Service after being detained at Ingleburn Army Camp on bread and water rations.
• 1982 – Arthur Coles, businessman and philanthropist, dies.