Melbourne Timeline 2013

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Mysterium Magnum 2013 core Timeline

Recent History, 1900 to 1999

1920 to 1929

• 1920 - Famine Awakens

1900 to 1909

• 1902 – Sydney recovers title from Melbourne as Australia's most populous city.
• 1901 - Famine is Born
• 1901 – The Commonwealth of Australia is formed. Melbourne becomes national capital.

Early History, 1800 to 1899

1850 to 1899

• 1891- economic crash: Melbourne had 490,000 people in 1890, and this figure scarcely changed for the next 15 years as a result of the crash and subsequent long slump. Immigration dried up, emigration to the goldfields of Western Australia and South Africa increased, and the high birthrate of the mid 19th century fell sharply and the city's growth continued, but very slowly.
• 1865 – Melbourne overtakes Sydney to become Australia's most populous city.
• 1861 – Melbourne's population reaches 125,000.
• 1854 - kindred of the other covenants come en mass. The Council try to placate the other clans and keep the council however a new prince is declared in on the night of September 16th: Prince William Hellsing....Nemites attempt to take control of the Unaligned council. (eureka stockade is believed to be part of that conflict)
• 1851 – Victoria becomes a colony, separate from New South Wales.
• 1850 - Belial's Brood are sighted.

1800 to 1849

• 1849 - a cave is found by the Nosferatu Charlotte Cartwell that holds a number of ancient bones. from this point on the aboriginal werewolf tribes start fighting back against the vampires.
• 1848 – Melbourne Hospital founded by a Nosferatu and the undercity was made by said nos whose name is Anton Stadder and his minions from this point onwards. (hospital was Renamed in 1935: The Royal Melbourne Hospital)
• 1847 – Melbourne declared a city by Queen Victoria on 25 June.
• 1840 - january: First vampires arrived 3 unaligned gangrel sent by The Council brothers Albert, Clyde & Vernnon White arrived seeking their own land. from this time other unaligned started coming and they soon formed a council.
• 1837 - First inner-city land sale to one "Griffon" who turned the land into a school.
• 1835 – Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner.
• 1835 – John Batman 'buys' the 2,430 km² 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 – John Batman sails to the mouth of the Yarra from Tasmania in the Rebecca.
• 1834 – The Henty family establish first long-term European settlement in Victoria at Portland.
• 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.
• 1803 – Charles Robbins and Charles Grimes explore the entirety of Port Phillip and discover the Yarra River in the Buffalo.
• 1801 – John Murray sails into Port Phillip in the Lady Nelson.
• 1800 – James Grant explores the south-east of Australia.

Pre-History, 1799 and earlier

• Victoria belonged to the Aboriginal clans here that were had a large shape-shifter presence a few aboriginals awoke but not in significant number.