Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/August/August 12


 * 1829 – Helen Dance, wife of the captain of the ship Sulphur, cut down a tree to mark the day of the founding of the town of Perth, Western Australia.
 * 1900 – Frederick Lane wins the Men's 200 metre freestyle at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
 * 1916 – Over the preceding four days Martin O'Meara repeatedly went out and brought in wounded officers and men from "No Man's Land" under intense artillery and machine-gun fire during the Battle of Pozières; for his gallantry he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
 * 1918 – King George V knights John Monash on the battlefield, the first British commander to be knighted in that way for 200 years.