Record Data Place Unit Type City or Town Containing Unit Australia Events Date Type 01/11/1866 British ship bound for Australia with 250 souls aboard sinks in the Bay of Biscay and all but 19 are lost Crime/Disasters 04/01/1859 Clipper ship bound for Liverpool from Australia hits an iceberg Crime/Disasters 06/10/1859 Crippled clipper ship limps into Valparaiso harbor in Chile after hitting an iceberg Crime/Disasters 10/25/1859 - 10/26/1859 Massive storms batter the western coast of the British Isles and cause hundreds of deaths Crime/Disasters 11/23/1852 Six tons of bullion from the new Australian goldfields arrives in London Business/Industry 01/21/1863 With great ceremony, Australian explorers Burke and Wills are buried in Melbourne, Australia Education/Culture People Documents Images Australia, 1857, zoomable map Melbourne, Australia, 1863, artist's impression
