Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/May/May 14

1798 – HMS Nautilus arrives in Sydney, carrying missionaries from the London Missionary Society.
1829 – Aboriginal mission on Bruny Island opened by George Augustus Robinson.
1859 – The Melbourne Football Club, Australia's oldest football club is founded.
1943 – Hospital ship AHS Centaur is sunk by Japanese torpedoes off the coast of Stradbroke Island during World War II, 64 of the 332 armed services personnel on board survived.
1969 – Actress Cate Blanchett is born.
1984 – The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
2004 – Hobart woman Mary Donaldson marries Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark in Copenhagen to become Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark.