Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/February/February 4

A pen and wash drawing of Sydney in 1796

• 1796 – Soldiers from the New South Wales Corps wreck a house belonging to settler John Baughan.
• 1813 – Major Thomas Davey succeeds David Collins as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land.
• 1942 – In the Battle of Rabaul, 158 Australian POWs are massacred in the Tol Plantation massacre.
• 1964 – Cyclone Dora strikes north west Queensland.
• 2003 – Stephen John Sutton is arrested by the Argentine Police and held without charge for two and a half years before being sentenced in 2005 to eleven years jail for drug trafficking.