Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/May/May 2
- 1829 – Captain Charles Fremantle claims the entire west coast of Australia in the name of George IV of the United Kingdom, establishing the Swan River Colony.
- 1964 – At the 1964 Tasmanian state election, the incumbent Australian Labor Party under Premier Eric Reece maintains its position, winning 19 out of the 35 seats available.
- 1980 – New Zealand-born cricketer Clarrie Grimmett, an inaugural inductee of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, dies in Adelaide, South Australia.
- 1997 – Neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles (pictured), the winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize for Medicine, dies at his home in Tenero-Contra, Switzerland.
- 2005 – Construction engineer Douglas Wood is kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq.