Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/December/December 25

• 1826 – Major Edmund Lockyer arrive at King George Sound to take possession of the western part of the continent, establishing a settlement near Albany.
• 1872 – Cosmetics industrialist Helena Rubinstein is born in Krakau, Austria-Hungary (now Poland).
• 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer, and one of the finest early spin bowlers, was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
• 1975 – Fifteen people are killed in an arson attack at the Savoy Hotel in Kings Cross, New South Wales.