Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/September/September 15


 * 1793 – Captain William Paterson leads a party of Scotsmen in the first attempt to cross the Blue Mountains. He is unsuccessful.
 * 1870 – Work begins on the Australian Overland Telegraph Line linking Port Augusta to Darwin.
 * 1879 – Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia, born in Stanley, Tasmania.
 * 2000 – The Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympics.