Melbourne Awakening History

Pre-European settlement

• At least 30,000 years of settlement by various Aboriginal nations that were existing then

18th century

• 1797 – George Bass explores the south-east coast of Australia

19th century

• 1800 – James Grant explores the south-east of Australia
• 1801 – John Murray sails into Port Phillip in the Lady Nelson
• 1803 – Charles Robbins and Charles Grimes explore the entirety of Port Phillip and discover the Yarra River in the Buffalo
• 1803 – David Collins sent from Sydney to establish a settlement for the British Government. Unaware of previous discoveries, Collins settles near present-day Sullivan Bay on the Mornington Peninsula. This settlement is abandoned five months later.
• 1834 – The Henty family establish first long-term European settlement in Victoria at Portland
• 1835 – John Batman sails to the mouth of the Yarra from Tasmania in the Rebecca
• 1835 – John Batman 'buys' the 2,430km² that Melbourne would be founded on from the local Aboriginal nation, the Wurundjeri. The Batman Deed is now widely recognised to be more of a treaty than a sale.
• 1835 – Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner
• 1836 – William Lonsdale built the first government block, declaring Melbourne the capital of the Port Phillip district
• 1837 – 28 March -The Hoddle Grid of streets for the central business district is surveyed by Robert Hoddle.
• 1837 – 1 June – First inner-city land sale. Amongst the purchases was the site of the Griffon Academy, by Griffon.
• 1838 – Melbourne is declared a legal port and administrative centre, opening the way for vastly increased immigration
• 1838 – Melbourne Cricket Club is founded
• 1838 – Second inner-city land sale
• 1839 – Third inner-city land sale. Quarrying of bluestone began out of the Melbourne Corporation Quarry at Clifton Hill.
• 1840 – First petition for the separation of Port Phillip District from New South Wales drafted by Henry Fyshe Gisborne and presented to Governor George Gipps.
• 1841 – First seaport and market are opened
• 1842 – Melbourne Municipal Corporation Act was passed in Sydney. Melbourne City Council is formed.
• 1842 - The First Concillium of Melbourne is formed, Known as the Concillium of Batman. Notably, this included an Apostate member from the Wurundjeri.
• 1845 – First Princes Bridge constructed connecting both sides of the Yarra
• 1846 - The Melbourne Botanic Gardens is founded
• 1847 – Melbourne declared a city by Queen Victoria on 25 June.
• 1847 – Melbourne Building Act was passed in 1847 based on Sydney act of 1833.
• 1848 – Melbourne Hospital founded (from 1935 the hospital is called The Royal Melbourne Hospital)
• 1851 – Beginning of the Victorian gold rush with discovery of gold at Buninyong
• 1851 – Victoria becomes a colony, separate from New South Wales
• 1851 – First Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe inaugurated
• 1852 – City's first gas works is opened
• 1842 - The First Concillium of Melbourne falls. Records are unclear as to what caused this.
• 1853 – The University of Melbourne is founded
• 1854 – The Melbourne Terminus (first Flinders Street Station building) is completed
• 1854 – First steam railway journey in Australia from Melbourne Terminus (on the current site of Flinders Street Station) to Sandridge (later Port Melbourne)
• 1854 – Melbourne Exhibition held in conjunction with Exposition Universelle (1855)
• 1854 – The State Library of Victoria is founded
• 1854 – First telegraph service, to Williamstown
• 1854 – The first Town Hall is completed
• 1855 – First state Governor Charles Hotham inaugurated
• 1855 – The Melbourne Museum is founded
• 1856 – Stonemasons win the Eight hour day
• 1857 – First reservoir water supply (at Yan Yean Reservoir) tapped outside city limits
• 1857 – Queen Victoria Market is founded
• 1857 – Australia's first country railway from Geelong to Melbourne is built
• 1857 – City streets first lit by gas lighting
• 1858 – 7 August – a game of football played between Melbourne Grammar School and Scotch College
• 1858 – First inter-city telegraph services, to Adelaide and Sydney
• 1859 – 14 May – Melbourne Football Club, Australia's oldest football club, is founded
• 1859 – Spencer Street Station (then Batman's Hill Station) and Princes Gate Station completed
• 1859 – Construction of the General Post Office begins
• 1859 – First Melbourne Trades Hall building opened.
• 1860 – The Burke and Wills expedition departed from Royal Park.
• 1861 – National Gallery of Victoria is founded
• 1861 – First Melbourne Cup
• 1861 – [[Victorian Exhibition (1861)|Victorian Exhibition held
• 1861 – Melbourne's population reaches 125,000
• 1862 – Melbourne Zoo founded
• 1863 – Batman's Hill levelled
• 1865 – Melbourne overtakes Sydney to become Australia's most populous city
• 1866 – Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia held
• 1867 – The current Melbourne Town Hall begins construction
• 1869 – The Royal Mint is completed
• 1874 – The Supreme Court building is completed
• 1875 – Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition held
• 1877 – First Test cricket match, between Australia and the MCC, at the MCG. First season of the Victorian Football Association.
• 1878 – Xavier College, in Kew, is founded after the increased need of boarding space for the oldest Jesuit School in Melbourne, St. Pat's.
• 1879 – Ruyton Girls' School, also in Kew is founded by Charlotte Anderson. Its land includes the heritage listed Henty House, built by the seminal Hentys of Sussex.
• 1880 - Ned Kelly hanged in Melbourne Gaol
• 1880 – Royal Exhibition Building opened
• 1880 – Melbourne International Exhibition held
• 1883 – The historic Yarra-Yarra Falls (near Queens Bridge) removed using explosives
• 1884 – Victorian International Exhibition held
• 1885 – First cable tram line opens in the Melbourne cable tramway system
• 1885 – Victorians' Jubilee Exhibition
• 1887 – The current Town Hall is completed
• 1888 – Victorian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition and Centennial International Exhibition held
• 1890 – The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works is formed
• 1894 – City streets first lit by electric lighting
• 1897 – First season of the Victorian Football League
• 1897 – First part of the mains sewage system becomes operational

20th century

• 1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook narrow-gauge railway (now Puffing Billy Railway) opens
• 1900 – Construction of the current Flinders Street Station building begins
• 1901 – The Commonwealth of Australia is formed. Melbourne becomes national capital
• 1901 – Famine is Born
• 1902 – Sydney recovers title from Melbourne as Australia's most populous city
• 1903 – The City Baths are opened
• 1905 – First Australian Open championship
• 1905 – Melbourne Continuation School, Victoria's first state secondary school, is founded in Spring Street
• 1906 – First electric tram service commences
• 1907 – The General Post Office is completed
• 1908 - From the very start of 1908 and for the next 40 years awakenings started happening more frequently.
• 1909 - The Current Concillium of Melbourne, The La Trobe Concillium, is formed.
• 1910 – Current Flinders Street Station building is completed
• 1913 – The Domed Reading Room of the State Library is opened
• 1916 – Strict height limit of 32 feet (40 metres) imposed on all buildings
• 1916 – Introduction of 6:00pm closing for all hotels (abolished in 1966)
• 1919 – Electric suburban train services commence on the Broadmeadows line

*1920 - Famine Awakens

• 1923 – W-class Melbourne trams introduced.
• 1923 – 1923 Victorian Police strike
• 1924 – First radio station 3AR (now known as Radio National.)
• 1927 – Federal Parliament is moved to Canberra, the new national capital
• 1928 – Melbourne City Council installs the city's first set of traffic lights at Collins and Swanston streets
• 1940 – Last cable tram service ends operation
• 1943 – Russell Street Police Headquarters building is completed. Bobby, a member of the Guardians of the Arrow establishes his public base of operations here.
• 1954 – April—Victorian Railways closes the Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook narrow-gauge railway (now Puffing Billy Railway)
• 1954 – First Moomba parade
• 1954 – Proposal to destroy much of East Melbourne and Jolimont to make way for an inner city ringroad.
• 1955 – City's first parking meters are installed
• 1955 – ICI building given special exception from CBD height limits
• 1956 – First television station HSV-7
• 1956 – The Olympic Games held in Melbourne
• 1957 – Plot ratio height limits introduced to CBD (dependent upon floor space and light angles), plazas and open space. By laws introduced for compulsory carspace for all new city buildings. 1.45 m setbacks for 'Little' streets introduced to widen footpaths.
• 1959 – Sidney Myer Music Bowl opened
• 1961 – Proposal to demolish Flinders Street station and replace it with office blocks.
• 1962 – The Puffing Billy Railway is re-opened as a tourist attraction
• 1966 – Abolition of 6:00pm closingof hotels (introduced in 1916)
• 1967 – first woman city councillor Clare Cascarret
• 1969 – Proposal to demolish the Regent Theatre for multi-storey development.
• 1970 – (15 October) 35 construction workers die when a span of the West Gate Bridge collapses
• 1974 – Underground Rail Loop begins construction
• 1975 – Z-class tram introduced
• 1975 – 1 March, Colour television introduced.
• 1982 – The City Loop subway is opened
• 1983 – (8 February) The Melbourne dust storm and (16 February) Ash Wednesday fires occur
• 1985 – Port Melbourne and St Kilda train lines are converted to light rail
• 1985 – B-class trams introduced
• 1986 – Car-bombing outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters kills one police officer
• 1986 – Rialto Towers completed and becomes the city's tallest building as well as the tallest in the southern hemisphere
• 1986 – Pablo Picasso's Weeping Woman is stolen from National Gallery of Victoria by activists. Returned a week later
• 1987 – Hoddle Street Massacre, killing 7 and injuring 19.
• 1987 – Queen Street Massacre, killing 8 and injuring 5.
• 1990 – Southbank promenade opens, paving the way for urban renewal in Southbank
• 1991 – Melbourne experiences a severe economic slump; City property markets crash and CBD vacancy rates reach all time high.
• 1992 – Pedestrianisation of Swanston Street creates Swanston Street Walk
• 1992 – Postcode 3000 policy attracts residents to the city centre, warehouses and offices are converted into apartments and CBD vacancy rates drop.
• 1994 – Opening of the Melbourne Observation Deck in Rialto Towers
• 1994 – Tasty nightclub raid
• 1995 – Host City to the World Police and Fire Games
• 1996 – Development of the Docklands area begins
• 1996 – Construction of the CityLink freeways begins
• 1996 – Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre opens
• 1996 – Melbourne wins right to host Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park Lake
• 1997 – The new site for Crown Casino and Entertainment Complex, Melbourne's first gambling centre opens.
• 1999 – Bolte Bridge open for traffic.

21st century

• 2000 – New Melbourne Museum officially opened.
• 2000 – The CityLink freeways open, including two new tunnels, a new cross-harbour bridge, and electronic tolling.
• 2000 – Docklands Stadium (later renamed Colonial Stadium, then Telstra dome, currently Etihad Stadium) completed.
• 2000 – 6 March—Bourke Street redevelopment.
• 2002 – Controversial Melbourne 2030 planning policy introduced. Aimed to increase population in designated 'activity centres' and curb urban sprawl. Promises to increase public transport usage to 20% of motorised trips by 2020.
• 2003 – 2003 Melbourne thunderstorm. Many Mages disappear
• 2004 – Melbourne Victory FC is formed.
• 2005 – 2005 Melbourne Thunderstorm. Many Mages disappear
• 2006 – Commonwealth Games held.
• 2007 – 2007 FINA Swimming World Championships are held.
• 2008 – New Eastlink freeway completed.
• 2008 – M1 upgrade begins
• 2009 – Victorian bushfires around Melbourne—worst fires in the history of the city
• 2009 – Melbourne Heart FC is formed.
• 2010 – Severe Thunderstorm 6 March, once in a century storm with 10cm hail stones. Many Mages disappear
• 2010 – Melbourne Celebrates 175th Birthday
• 2011 – Queen Elizabeth II visits Melbourne

Recent History

• June 2012 to June 2013 - Well placed Awakened members of the Concillium begin attacking other members of the Concillium, turning against Cabal mate, and destroying key rescources. Many soul stones, records and Cabal houses are destoyed.
• June 2013 - A combined strike force made up of Guardians and Arrow, authorized by the Hierarch, declare martial law, and advise Cabals to return to their territories and not associate with each other.
• June 2014 - Hierarch Keter sends out a letter advising that the ban will be lifted shortly, as the strike force believes it has completed their operations.