12 May: Farmer and businessman, John Batman and his party sail from Launceston on the Rebecca, entering Port Phillip on the 29th and anchoring at Indented Head.
Hobsons Bay was once a kangaroo hunting ground. Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist' is published. The first steam railway to operate in Australia opened between Flinders Street and Port Melbourne. This was formally the founding moment of the Colony of Victoria, with separation from New South Wales established by section 1 of the 1851 Act. Victoria is Western Canada's second oldest city, incorporated as a City on August 2, 1862. Charles Sturt leads an expedition along the Murray River, arousing interest in settlement of land to the south. Melbourne had already become a centre of Australia's wool export trade. When the apprenticeship period ended in 1838, over 700,000 slaves were freed in the British Caribbean. Early 1835: The Port Phillip Association (originally the "Geelong and Dutigalla Association") is formed by fifteen of the leading colonists of Van Diemen's Land with a view to purchasing large tracts of land from the Aborigines on the unsettled South coast of Australia. 1 Centennial Square Victoria, BC V8W 1P6 Telephone: 250.385.5711Contact the webmaster. Between Cape Otway and Wilson's Promontory the Lady Nelson crosses the bight that leads to Port Phillip but Grant does not detect the entrance to the harbour. It was The Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton is completed and hosts the Melbourne International Exhibition. The Argus begins publication in Melbourne on 2 June (published by William Kerr and named Melbourne Argus until 1852). 1844:Melbourne's first crossing of the Yarra River opens as a wooden trestle bridge at the site of what is now the Princes Bridge. The reaction came quickly.
The first petition for the separation of the Port Phillip District (or 'Australia Felix') from New South Wales was drafted in 1840 by Henry Fyshe Gisborne and presented by him to Governor Gipps. This was crushed by British troops, but some of the leaders of the rebellion subsequently became members of the Victoria Parliament, and the rebellion is regarded as a pivotal moment in the development of Australian democracy. [9], Oral history and creation stories from the Wada wurrung, Woiwurrung and Bun wurrung languages describe the flooding of the bay. Constitutional history began in 1849 with the creation by the Imperial Government of the Crown Colony of Vancouver Island and on March 11, 1850, Richard Blanshard formally assumed office as Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island. 2 September: The party that Batman had left at Indented Head is lead by Wedge to the Melbourne site, arriving to find the Fawkner party already in place (Batman does not join his party until 9 November).
January - Britain takes complete control of Egypt. In January 1803 Acting-Lieutenant Charles Robbins in the schooner HMS Cumberland sailed right around Port Phillip. The City of Victoria was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company on March 14, 1843, as a trading post and fort at the location the Lekwungen People called "Camosack" meaning "Rush of Water.". Homer, read the proclamation. Matthew Flinders arrived in Port Phillip and climbed the bay's two major nearby peaks - Arthurs Seat and the You Yangs. Victoria's first permanent European settlement is established at Portland Bay by pioneer Edward Henty on 19 November. Grey received nearly 75% of the vote[30] despite Grey having never visited the Colony and being ineligible as a current member of the British Parliament. Conditions on the gold fields were cramped and unsanitary – an outbreak of typhoid at Buckland Valley in 1854 killed over 1,000 miners.
1928:Australia's first traffic lights were installed in Melbourne at the junction of Flinders Street and Swanston Street. Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, was hanged in Melbourne.
In November 1834 John Hart, another sailor, reported favourably in Launceston on Western Port. They also clashed with the Wathaurung people near Corio Bay, killing their leader – the first Aborigines known to have been killed by settlers in Victoria.
The British Act of Parliament separating Port Phillip District from New South Wales, and naming the new colony "Victoria" (after Queen Victoria) and providing it with a Constitution, was signed by Queen Victoria on 5 August 1850. 17 September: London-Birmingham line opens. In 1901 it became a state of the new Commonwealth of Australia. Pastoralist John Batman and surveyor John Wedge planned an expedition from Launceston in 1825 but permission was not granted. Collins has been criticised for not investigating the bay thoroughly, in particular, the northern head with its fresh-water river, and for being too hasty in his condemnation of the bay. In February 1803, Lord Hobart the Secretary of State changed the destination to Port Phillip.
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