Melbourne Timeline 2013
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Mysterium Magnum 2013 core Timeline
The Modern day, 2000 and beyond
2010 onwards
2000 to 2009
Recent History, 1900 to 1999
1990 to 1999
1980 to 1989
1970 to 1979
1960 to 1969
1950 to 1959
1940 to 1949
1930 to 1939
1920 to 1929
- 1920 - Famine Awakens
1910 to 1919
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
- 1865 – Melbourne overtakes Sydney to become Australia's most populous city.
- 1861 – Melbourne's population reaches 125,000.
1800 to 1849
- 1851 – Victoria becomes a colony, separate from New South Wales.
- 1847 – Melbourne declared a city by Queen Victoria on 25 June.
- 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.