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The Melbourne, also known as the settlement skyline, and Yarra River The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Pre-European settlement Aboriginal Australians settled the area for at least 30,000 years. 19th century’s timeline Main article: Foundation of Melbourne A map dating to the 1880s shows the well-established suburbs of Melbourne. 1800 ...
The Stock Exchange of Melbourne and the Victorian Economy 1852-1900 (Australian National University Press, 1968) Lewis, Miles Bannatyne. Melbourne: the city's history and development (City of Melbourne, 1995). Lockwood, Rupert. Ship to Shore: A History of Melbourne's Waterfront and its Union Struggles (Hale & Iremonger, 1990) Logan, William S.
Living with Indigenous people was William Buckley, an escaped convict, who was with the Wautharong people near Melbourne for thirty-two years, before being found in 1835. James Morrill was an English sailor aboard the vessel Peruvian which became shipwrecked off the coast of north-eastern Australia in 1846, was taken in by a local clan of ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2016) Old Government House, Parramatta, circa 1799 Old Military Barracks, now Legislative Assembly Chambers, Kingston, Norfolk Island Historic Ross Bridge with the Uniting Church in the background This is primarily a list of towns and cities in Australia by year of settlement. The article also contains information on ...
Before British colonisation of Australia, ... Coming from New Zealand in 1770, ... Melbourne had already become a centre of Australia's wool export trade.
Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. New South Wales men achieved the right to vote. 1859: 6 August: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives. Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded 6 June: Queensland separated from New South Wales with its western border at ...
On 19 April 1770, the Endeavour reached the east coast of New Holland and ten days later anchored at Botany Bay. Cook charted the coast to its northern extent and formally took possession of the east coast of New Holland on 21/22 August 1770 when on Possession Island off the west coast of Cape York Peninsula .
The Foundation of Perth 1829 by George Pitt Morison Melbourne Landing, 1840; watercolour by W. Liardet (1840) Brisbane (Moreton Bay Settlement), 1835; watercolour by H. Bowerman Adelaide in 1839. South Australia was founded as a free colony, without convicts.