In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

The club won successive premierships in 1911 and 1912 over Collingwood and South Melbourne respectively.

After a 17 point second semi final loss to South Melbourne defeated Fitzroy ( who had beaten South Melbourne ) in the challenge final: Essendon 8. 15 ( 63 ) to Fitzroy 6. 10 ( 46 ).

Essendon, having previously defeated both Fitzroy ( by 40 points ) and South Melbourne ( by 33 points ), clinched the premiership by means of a 20-point loss to Richmond.

Terry Daniher and his brother Neale would come via a trade with South Melbourne, and Roger Merrett joined soon afterwards to form the nucleus of what would become the formidable Essendon sides of the 1980s.

Middle Park, the home of South Melbourne FC was demolished in 1994 due to expansion at Albert Park.

This first grand final in the VFA between two previously undefeated teams, Geelong and South Melbourne, stimulated unprecedented public interest.

It was alleged that saboteurs attempted to destroy one of the special trains carrying Geelong supporters to the match in South Melbourne.

The victorious Geelong team were treated to an impromptu public parade in the enemy territory of South Melbourne.

Geelong helped form the new VFL with other foundation clubs, Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Melbourne, South Melbourne and St Kilda.

All Australian-built Holden vehicles are manufactured at Elizabeth in South Australia, and engines are produced at the Fishermans Bend plant in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

In 1926 General Motors ( Australia ) was established with assembly plants at Newstead, Queensland ; Marrickville, New South Wales ; City Road, Melbourne, Victoria ; Birkenhead, South Australia ; and Cottesloe, Western Australia utilizing bodies produced by Holden Motor Body Builders and imported complete knock down ( CKD ) chassis.

Holden's second full-scale car factory, located in Fishermans Bend ( Port Melbourne ), was completed in 1936, with construction beginning in 1939 on a new plant in Pagewood, New South Wales.

For the most part, car bodies were now manufactured at Elizabeth, South Australia, with engines as before, confined to the Fishermans Bend plant in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

He scored 71 in a rain-affected first test at Melbourne before a tense second test that South Africa won by 5 runs.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Deakin University, Murdoch University and the University of South Carolina, and is a Professorial Fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at the University of Melbourne.

An Autobiography, Macmillan, South Melbourne, Victoria.

* Lopez, Mark ( 2000 ), The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945 – 1975, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Victoria.

* 1977 – Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock under the Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 in King William's Town, South Africa.

* Cape Town, South Africa ; since 1999.

* Ajax Cape Town FC, a South African football club

* Alfred Town, a village in New South Wales, Australia

Ajax has also expanded its talent searching program to South Africa with Ajax Cape Town.

There are some youth players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as South African international Steven Pienaar ( on loan to Everton ) and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh.

He eclipsed the long-standing record of 51. 88 per cent by the South African J. H. Sinclair ( 106 out of 177 and 4 out of 35 ) against England at Cape Town in an 1898 – 1899 series.

Towards the end of 1918, Frances sent a letter to Johanna Parvin, a friend in Cape Town, South Africa, where Frances had lived for most of her life, enclosing the photograph of her with the fairies.

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

* 1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human ( 53-year-old Louis Washkansky ).

Remains of Palmerston Town Hall, destroyed by Cyclone TracyIn 1863, the Northern Territory was annexed from New South Wales by the young colony of South Australia.

* 1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.

School children in Cape Town, South Africa.

Christ in Triumph over Darkness and Evil by Gabriel Loire ( 1982 ) at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, in memory of Lord Mountbatten.

* 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.

* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

This changed the momentum as South Africa secured wins in Durban and Cape Town, where Cronje scored his fourth test century, he was the first captain since W. G. Grace to win a three-match rubber after being one down.

South Africa won the series with England in the fourth Test at Cape Town, Cronje's fiftieth as captain.

19th-century South Africa did not attract mass Irish migration, but Irish communities are to be found in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Kimberley, and Johannesburg, with smaller communities in Pretoria, Barberton, Durban and East London.

* IOI 1997 was held in Cape Town, South Africa, November 30 – December 7, 1997

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

* 1993 – The Saint James Church massacre occurs in Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa.

Cape Town: A. A. Balkema for the Friends of the South African Library, 1976 ISBN 0-86961-068-6

* 1829 – South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa ; it will later separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.