Port Arthur massacre
After 35 are shot dead, Australia tightens its gun laws
On 28 April 1996 a gunman killed 35 people at the former convict settlement of Port Arthur in Tasmania, the deadliest mass shooting in Australian history. Within 12 days the governments of Australia agreed to ban automatic and semi-automatic rifles, and some 650,000 firearms were bought back.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — 16 years earlier
- 1981 AIDS first described — 15 years earlier
- 1997 Kyoto Protocol — 1 year later
- 2008 Global financial crisis — 12 years later
Europe
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — 7 years earlier
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — 7 years earlier
- 1990 German reunification — 6 years earlier
- 1991–2001 Yugoslav Wars — 5 years earlier
- 1992 Maastricht Treaty — 4 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980 Solidarity — 16 years earlier
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — 11 years earlier
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — 10 years earlier
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — 7 years earlier
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — 5 years earlier
Middle East
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — 17 years earlier
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — 16 years earlier
- 1990–1991 Gulf War — 6 years earlier
- 1993 Oslo Accords — 3 years earlier
- 2011–2024 Syrian civil war — 15 years later
Africa
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — 22 years earlier
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — 13 years earlier
- 1994 End of apartheid in South Africa — 2 years earlier
- 1998–2003 Second Congo War — 2 years later
- 2011 Independence of South Sudan — 15 years later
Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — 21 years earlier
- 1997 Handover of Hong Kong — 1 year later
- 1998 Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests — 2 years later
- 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami — 8 years later
- 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami — 15 years later
Americas
- 1983 Birth of the Internet: ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — 13 years earlier
- 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope — 6 years earlier
- 2001 September 11 attacks — 5 years later
- 2003 Human genome sequenced — 7 years later
- 2007 Apple unveils the iPhone — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Nelson Mandela (aged 78)
- Neil Armstrong (aged 66)
- Mother Teresa (aged 86)
- Ronald Reagan (aged 85)
- Edmund Hillary (aged 77)
- Jimmy Carter (aged 72)
- Fidel Castro (aged 70)
- Elizabeth II (aged 70)
- Gabriel García Márquez (aged 69)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (aged 65)