Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/July/July 31

A game of Australian football at the Richmond Paddock in the 1860s. (A wood engraving made by Robert Bruce on July 27, 1866.)

• 1858 – The first game of Australian rules football is played between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College.
• 1902 – Ninety-six men and boys were killed in a coal mine at Mount Kembla in New South Wales.
• 1911 – Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman is appointed the fifth Governor General of Australia.
• 1956 – Actor Ernie Dingo is born in the Murchison region of Western Australia.