Among The Terraces - TimelineAmong The Terraces - TimelineTHE FOUNDING OF MELBOURNE.
First land sales in Melbourne.
Land for the new cemetery set aside in Carlton 40 acres. Cemetery plans drawn up.
SEPARATION YEAR: VICTORIA BECOMES A SEPARATE COLONY
Carlton Gardens proclaimed.
Melbourne's population reaches 29,000.
Robert Hoddle surveys and plans Carlton.
Cemetery trustees appointed.
Wesleyan Immigrant's Home built.
Collingwood Convict Stockade opens.
Cemetery officially opened and first burials are made.
The founding of Melbourne University.
Acute housing & accommodation shortage in Melbourne.
Cr. Smith for Bourke Ward proposes the Carlton Gardens be made into a new site for waste depot.
Building is commenced on St. Andrew's church.
Drummond Street.: still tents and shanties.
Melbourne University officially opened.
St. Andrew's Gaelic Church officially opened.
Bluestone Church built is later taken over by St. George's as a school.
Quadrangle and old Commerce School built at Melbourne University.
Lying in Hospital built.
Trades Hall grant of half an acre of land.
Redmond Barry builds home in Carlton.
Stockade accommodates up to 300 prisoners.
Law School established at Melbourne University.
All subdivided allotments sold area bounded by Rathdowne, Grattan, Victoria and Swanston streets.
Edward Bateman designs Carlton Gardens.
'Barkly Inn.'
Trades Hall built as a wooden building.
Bluestone Wall built at the Stockade. 50 Chinese prisoners.
Carlton named as such.
Apostolic Church built.
Lectureship in Civil Engineering established at Melbourne University.
Medical School established at Melbourne University.
Princes Hill named after Prince Alfred's visit to Melbourne.
Curtin's Hotel.
'Stockade Hotel' built.
Public meetings held to have the Stockade closed.
Princes Park fenced off for grazing cattle.
Stockade closes down.
St. Judes designed by Joseph Reed.
Nth. Palmerston St. still semi rural.
'The Dove' & 'The Royal Dane' hotels built.
Carolina Terrace built for Count de Castelan.
Lee Terrace built for Benjamin Lee.
Stockade reopens as the Collingwood Lunatic Asylum.
Redmond Barry first president of the Carlton Bowling Club.
Rev. Mc Eachran new minister for St. Andrews Church.
Faraday Street Common School built.
'The Hiberninan' hotel built.
Asylum stops being a receiving house.
Inspector General's report on the Asylum.
Suburbia begins to close in. Carlton extends as far as Park street.
Lygon street's commercial prosperity increases significandy.
New ward of Victoria created by the M.C.C.
ANZ bank built, Lygon Street.
Trinity College built.
Kew Asylum opens and the Carlton Asylum becomes one of its wards.
Establishment of T.Atyeo's Monumental Masons and Decorators.
Carlton Lunatic Asylum closed and all patients transferred to Kew.
Lee Street Primary School opens as the Stockade School.
New Trades Hall building. Designed by Joseph Reed.
Transepts added to St. Andrews.
Redmond Barry's house bought for demolition. Later replaced by the Hospital for Sick Children. (Royal
Children's; later became St. Nicholas.
Faraday Street School designed by Reed & Barnes.
95 pubs in Carlton.
Land between the cemetery and Pigdon street subdivided.
Faraday Street State School built on site of the Common School.
Lee Street State School new buildings.
Joseph Reed designs Wilson Hall.
Act of Parliament to set aside 20 acres of land for the Exhibition Buildings.
Exhibition Buildings. (1879-80)
North Carlton fully developed.
St. Anne's Hostel for Girls established.
Wesleyan Immigrants' Home demolished.
Gas lighting appears on the streets of Carlton.
Queensberry Street State School.
International Exhibition Exhibition Buildings.
Ormond College.
State School 177 opens in the Trades Hall.
Queensberry Street State School opens.
State School 177 closes: students transferred to Rathdowne Street State School.
St. Michaels built.
Cemetery 125,000 burials since 1853.
Hospital for Sick Children enlarged.
Land bought for Princes Hill Primary School.
Johnson St. Bridge cable tram opens.
Railway line is opened. Opening of the Nth Carlton station.
Rathdowne St. Cable tram opened.
Paterson family establishes 2 homes in Carlton.
Princes Hill Primary School.
Grand National Baby Show at Exhibition Buildings.
End of the "Boom Years" and start of the depression.
Carlton's population reaches c 32,000; Nth Carlton, 16,000.
Beginning of slum development in the Carlton area.1892 Carlton Relief Society set up.
Amalgamation of Queensberry and Rathdowne Street State Schools despite local opposition.
Teaching retrenchments at Rathdowne Street school.
'Benevenuta' built.
Carlton Cricket and Football clubs gain permission to occupy Carlton Gardens.
Sacred Heart Church. (St. Georges.)
Princes Hill Primary School, Arnold st.
St. John's Greek Orthodox Church.
Exhibition Buildings houses the first Federal Parliament.
First Carlton kindergarten, Bouverie st, founded by Miss Maud Williams.
Teacher training resumes at Rathdowne Street State School.
P.H.P.S. extensions to cope with overcrowding problems.
Miniature rifle range approved by M.C.C.
Land purchased for St. Mark's church, Lygon street.
Kadimah the Jewish institute established.
World War One.
Mother's Story Telling Club formed at the P.H.P.S: First Mother's club in Victoria.
End of World War One.
Exhibition Buildings converted into a temporary hospital during the 'flu epidemic.
Electric lighting appears on the streets.
Steam trains replaced by electric trains.
Infant school, Pigdon street. (Later became P.H.P.S.)
Picket fences are removed from the Carlton Gardens.
Sqizzy Taylor shot in the back streets of Carlton.
Exhibition Buildings scene of a Christmas party for the unemployed.
Centenary of Victoria.
St. Mark's school opens.
St. Andrew's closed down and transferred to Gardiner.
World War Two.