April – Averaged over Australia, the driest month on record with only 3.74 millimetres (0.15 in).[1] Over half the continent was absolutely rainless and less than 3 percent outside Tasmania had more than 10 millimetres (0.39 in).[2]
31 May – The Second Boer War, in which Australia is involved, ends.
26 December – Ada Evans becomes the first female law graduate in Australia.
As a culmination of the Federation Drought, this was by raw totals the driest calendar year averaged over Australia since 1890[3] with only 314.46 millimetres (12.38 in)[4] (though by area-averaged mean decile it was only eleventh driest).[5]
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The world's first successful pyritic smelting takes place at Mount Lyell, Tasmania