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Appearance
![Robert Hoddle with his omnipresent surveying telescope](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Robert_Hoddle_telescope.jpg/100px-Robert_Hoddle_telescope.jpg)
- 1837 – The Hoddle Grid of streets for Melbourne's central business district is surveyed by Robert Hoddle.
- 1885 – HMQS Gayundah arrives in Brisbane. The Captain refuses to relinquish his command and is removed by a boarding party of Queensland Police.
- 1942 – The first shipload of 8398 American servicemen arrive in Sydney for action in the Pacific theater.