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Melbourne is founded by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner
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1841 – First seaport and market are opened
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Melbourne declared a city by Queen Victoria on 25 June
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1848- Melbourne Hospital is founded
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1852 - City's first gas works is opened
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• 1857 – Queen Victoria market is founded
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1857 – First reservoir water supply (at Yan Yean Reservoir) tapped outside city limits
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1857 – City streets first lit by gas lighting
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1861 – First Melbourne Cup
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1885 – First cable tram line opens in the Melbourne cable tramway system
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• 1894 – City streets first lit by electric lighting
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1897 – First part of the mains sewage system becomes operational
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1905 – First Australian Open championship
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1907 – The General Post Office is completed
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1910 – Current Flinders Street Station building is completed
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1956 – The Olympic Games held in Melbourne
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• 1956 – First television station HSV-7
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1970 – 35 construction workers die when a span of the West Gate Bridge collapsed.
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1975 – Colour television introduced.
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1983 – The Melbourne dust storm
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1983 - Ash Wednesday fires occur
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• 1987 – Hoddle Street Massacre, killing 7 and injuring 19.
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1987 – Queen Street Massacre, killing 8 and injuring 5.
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1996 – Development of the Docklands area begins
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1999 – Bolte Bridge open for traffic.
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• 2009 – Victorian bushfires around Melbourne – worst fires in the history of the city
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1853 - Melbourne University is founded
