Namatjira granted Australian citizenship
1957 · Event
Australia's most famous painter becomes, with his wife, the first Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory granted citizenship; when he later shares alcohol with kin still denied it, he is jailed.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1957
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)