Many states have Arbor Day although only Victoria has Arbor Week, which was suggested by Premier Dick Hamer in the 1980s.

In both Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March ( though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day ).

Before 1961, May 24 was celebrated in Jamaica as Empire Day in honour of the birthday of Queen Victoria and her emancipation of slaves in Jamaica.

* In Canada, Victoria Day is celebrated on the last Monday on or before May 24.

* In Canada, Victoria Day is observed on the Monday on or before May 24.

* Victoria Day ; celebrated on Monday on or before May 24.

In February and March 1985 the Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket was played at the MCG, a One Day International tournament involving all of the then Test match playing countries to celebrate 150 years of the Australian state of Victoria.

Celebrations often take place not on May 1 but during the Victoria Day long weekend, later in the month and when the weather is likely to be better.

Outside major cities and ski resorts, tourist season typically begins Victoria Day continuing to Labour Day or Thanksgiving ; motels would be largely vacant ( operating at slightly reduced prices or occasionally closed ) for the winter, while campgrounds would be effectively unusable outside the high season.

* Victoria Day

Free tours of the gardens are conducted by trained volunteers and leave from Victoria Gate at and every day ( except Christmas Day ).

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

Picnic at Hanging Rock centers around a trip by a party of girls from Appleyard College, a fictitious upper class private boarding school, who travel to Hanging Rock in the Mount Macedon area, Victoria, for a picnic on Valentine's Day 1900.

* Victoria Day — the official birthday of the monarch ( the Monday on or preceding 24 May )

It is one of the largest such festivals in the world, and includes a variety of events such as the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade and Party, Bondi Beach Drag Races, Harbour Party, the academic discussion panel Queer Thinking, Mardi Gras Film Festival, as well as Fair Day, which attracts 70, 000 people to Victoria Park, Sydney.

Fair Day is the kick off event for the official Mardi Gras season in Victoria Park, Sydney for Sydney's wider LGBTQI community and their friends, family and pets.

The Dalgety District and Community Association now holds an annual ' Snowy River Day ' on 31 August to commemorate when the three governments, Victoria, NSW and the Commonwealth with high profile former Australian Conservation Foundation President, and now Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett oversaw the temporary release of water from the Moonbah or Mowamba River, a tributary of the Snowy River.

Mentioned in the song " Lakeside Park ", May 24 is Victoria Day, a Canadian holiday.

In Quebec, the rebellion ( as well as the parliamentary and popular struggle ) is now commemorated as the Journée nationale des Patriotes ( National Patriotes Day ) by the use of the Canadian Statutory Holiday, Victoria Day.

Image: Kronprinsessan Victoria i Sundsvall 20060606. jpg | Crown Princess Victoria at a National Day celebration in 2006.

Balmoral Castle, painted by Queen Victoria in 1854 during its construction

* 1854 – Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.

* 1854 – The first Victoria Cross is awarded during the bombardment of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.

Dr Login received a knighthood in 1854 from Queen Victoria and was known as Sir John Spencer Login ( he had added the ' r ' to his middle name to change it from Spence to Spencer ).

According to one account, Byron was born with an intellectual disability in 1854, a condition Victoria believed was caused by her husband's alcoholism.

The first Australian performance was presented in Sydney on 12 October 1854 at the Royal Victoria Theatre.

The brothers opened an office in London and in 1854 they received the Royal Warrant as manufacturers of chocolate and cocoa to Queen Victoria.

* Eureka Stockade, an 1854 goldminers ' rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

In 1854 there was an armed rebellion against the government of Victoria by miners protesting against mining taxes ( the " Eureka Stockade ").

Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders of Rorke's Drift, seven of them to soldiers of the 2nd / 24th Foot – the most ever received in a single action by one regiment ( although not, as commonly thought, the most won in a single action or the most won in a day: 16 were won at the Battle of Inkerman, on 5 November 1854 ; 28 were won during the Second Relief of Lucknow, 14 – 22 November 1857 ).

Some leaders had been transported to Australia, where they spread their gospel, In 1854 Chartist demands were put forward by the miners at the Eureka Stockade on the gold fields at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Victoria became the last Sovereign to personally grant Assent in 1854.

He was instrumental in the foundation of the Royal Melbourne Hospital ( 1848 ), the University of Melbourne ( 1853 ), and the State Library of Victoria ( 1854 ).

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Alderney on 9 August 1854.

" The original 1854 masthead included the Colony of Victoria crest.

In 1854 he was created a baronet by Queen Victoria and a knight commander in the pontifical Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Pius IX in 1855.

In the reign of Queen Victoria, coins were minted for circulation in 1839, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1847, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, and 1856.

It was noted that on that date in 1854, the 35th birthday of Queen Victoria, some 5, 000 residents of Canada West gathered in front of Government House ( near present day King and Simcoe Streets in Toronto ) to " give cheers to their queen.

In 1854, John Bowring, the Governor of Hong Kong in the name of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, came to Siam to negotiate a treaty.

In 1854, the Waterhouses returned to England and moved to a newly built house in South Kensington, London, which was near to the newly founded Victoria and Albert Museum.

* The last link in the east was opened between the NLR near Victoria Park and Stratford in 1854.

In May 1854 he gave his performance before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at Osborne House.

Although the conflict was defused in time by the military, a general support for the Crown's representative, triumphed in Bytown ( renamed Ottawa by Queen Victoria in 1854 ).

The Philosophical Institute of Victoria was founded in 1854 and became the Royal Society of Victoria after receiving a Royal Charter in 1859.