These are the selected anniversaries for February that appear on the Australia portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.
February 1
1811 – John Oxley is appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales.
2003 – Stephen John Sutton is arrested by the Argentine Police and held without charge for two and a half years before being sentenced in 2005 to eleven years jail for drug trafficking.
1986 – Lindy Chamberlain is released from prison after serving three years upon the find of new evidence which eventually leads a judge to overturn her conviction.
2005 – Maria Korp is found comatose in the boot of her car in Melbourne, her life support is later switched off leading to some debate over euthanasia.
1823 – Surveyor James McBrien at the Fish River near Bathurst discovers gold. It is the first known report of gold, though it is not made public, the Australian gold rushes do not begin until 1851.
1804 – David Collins becomes the first Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land and decides on Sullivan Cove, now Hobart, as a settlement site.
1914 – Charles Heydon of the New South Wales Industrial Court finds that a "living wage" for a family of four would be 48 shillings a week but more than a living wage should be paid.
1942 – Twenty two Australians captured by the Japanese following the sinking of SS Vyner Brooke are killed at the Bangka Island massacre.
2002 – Allegations are aired that Governor-General of Australia Peter Hollingworth, as Archbishop of Brisbane, had in the early 1990s attempted to cover up several instances of sexual abuse.
2003 – Hundreds of thousands of protestors join millions more in other cities around the world in protesting the Iraq War. These are the biggest street protests seen since the Vietnam War.
1962 – Perth becomes known as the City of Light when astronaut John Glenn passes over the city and thousands of external lights are switched on to greet him.
2006 – Andrew Mallard, convicted of murder in 1995, has his conviction quashed and is released after a High Court appeal.
1925 – Ronald Ryan, the last man to be legally executed in Australia, is born.
1980 – A Beech 200 light aircraft crashes at Sydney Airport, killing 13.
1906 – The Bondi Beach surf lifesaving club is established, becoming the first club of its type in the world.
1997 – Former Premier of Western Australia Carmen Lawrence is charged with perjury resulting from the Marks Royal Commission. She was found not guilty.
1994 – Australian Federal Sports and Environment Minister Ros Kelly resigns over "The Sports Rorts Affair", where it was alleged that she apportioned money for community sporting projects in a pork barreling fashion.