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John Murray sails into Port phillip bay On the boat Lady nelson
This is important as it it was one of the first to sail in -
David Collins Sent from sydney to make a new settlement
Not sure on the Exat date. This is important as if he did settle here we would have had a diffrent outcome then what we have now -
John batman sails into the yarra in the rebecca
this started the chain of events to start melbourne -
Melbourne is settled by John batman and his enemy John pascoe fawkner
This did start our future and maybe even the death of john batman -
John bat man makes treaty with tribesman for 500,000 acres of land
This was disputed nad eventually he got nothing this is important because if Batman had of got all the land it may have been a very diffrent place. -
William lonsdale declared melboune capital of poert phillip
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The hoddle Grid is surveyed for the CBD
This makes us buch better than sydney as we have better flow of traffic. it also allows us to have alot easyer city to walk around in as there arent bends and dadends any where its all just a block system. -
Melbounre is Declared a legal sea port
We can now trade and open up to a new world of bussiness throwing melbourne on to the world economic stage -
Bridge constructed across yarra
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Melbourne is declared a city By queen Victoria
As we are now a city we can do alot more things as we have more freedom -
Melbourne becomes colony seperate from new south wales
we have yet again gained moe inderpendance and we are now a seperate colony from new south wales this is a key point in melbounre history -
LT Gov Charles La Trobe is inaugrated
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Flinders street station is finished
The beautiful building was finished and is now a main focus of melbourne city it was going to be teared down in the early 60's -
The eight hour work day is introduced
Without this people would still be working redicoulous hours we also wouldnt have had labour day -
Population reaches 125,000
This was a mile stone for melbounre and it only grew from there onwards to about 4 million now -
The commonwealth of Australia is formed melbounre is national capital
This is where melbourne really helped the forming of Australia as a Country we became the national city untill a purpose built city was made. -
