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A mountain ash seed... 
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A severe fire burns the moutain ash...
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Black Thursday - 6 February
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Gold Rush
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Blacks' Spur
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Aboriginals begin campaign to defend their farm
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Aboriginals forced to leave Coranderrk Station
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The Victorian government excises...
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Red Tuesday - 1 February
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Forest Act passed...
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Forests Commission of Victoria formed
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Coranderrk Aboriginal Station closed
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Black Sunday - 14 February
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Nine Die in mountain forest fires - Early February
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Furmston’s Tree discovered on Mount Monda
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Ben & Dorothy Saxton marry - 15 August
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New Acting Judge, Leonard Stretton appointed - April
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One of the driest years on record...
Germany invades Austria - March
Fears of war grow - September
Severe water restrictions - 25 November
Fire warnings - December
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Record Temperatures hit Melbourne
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The summer continues dry and hot... - 01 Jan
Melbourne's hottest day for 33 years - Sun 08 Jan
Forest Officers die while fighting fires at Toolangi - Sun 08 Jan
Don Bradman and Weather creates new Records - Tue 10 Jan
Twelve Forest workers die in Rubicon - Tue 10 Jan
Seven people die along Archeron Way - Tue 10 Jan
Three Pressure systems combine to drive Hot Northerly winds inland over Victoria - Thu 12 Jan
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Death and destruction across Victoria
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All Time Record Temperatures as Black Friday begins - Fri 13 Jan
Ben & Dorothy Saxton & Michael Gorey die at Tanjil Bren - Fri 13 Jan
Fire engulfs Woods Point - Fri 13 Jan
Four children die near Colac - Fri 13 Jan
15 die in Matlock - George Sellars only survivor - Fri 13 Jan
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Victoria rebuilds, Hitler enters Prague
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Ben & Dorothy Saxton Funeral - Mon 16
Royal Commission into 1939 Fires opens - 31 Jan
Nazi Germany invades Prague - Mar
Robert Menzies becomes new Prime Minister - 26 Apr
Judge Stretton presents Royal Commission to Victorian Parliament - 17 May
Germany invades Poland - 1 Sep
Britain, France declare war on Germany. Australia too is at war - 3 Sep
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The Forests Act (1939) is proclaimed - January
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Grass fires sweep NE Victoria
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CFA is established - April
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Stretton completes another Royal Commission
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David Ashton begins his long experiment
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Salvage of fire-killed trees
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Sawmilling industry moves east
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Sixty Nine fires reported across Victoria - 12 February
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Ash Wednesday, 71 Dead as Fires rage across Victoria & South Australia - 16 February
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Furmston’s Tree collapses after 400 years
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Long drought continues across Australia
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Fire and War haunt the Australian Summer - Jan
Steve Waugh equals Bradman's record - 4 Jan
Firestorm invades Canberra - 18 Jan
HMAS Kanimbla leaves for Persian Gulf - 23 Jan
259 Vic Towns suffer mandatory water restrictions - 31 Jan
Fires burn across Australian Alps - Jan-Feb
War on Iraq begins - 20 Mar
Official inquiries into Summer bush fires - Winter
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