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Toowoomba History
20 October- Toowoomba declared a city -
Toowoomba History
8 January- John Sterry Baker fled into the bush -
Toowoomba History
30 April Allan Cunningham left Segenhoe in the Hunter Valley, NSW when setting out north and discovering the Darling Downs. -
Toowoomba History
6 June- Allan Cunningham discovered the Darling Downs. -
Toowoomba History
11 June- Allan Cunningham located Spicer’s Gap from3.2 km to the west but he did not penetrate it. -
Toowoomba History
24 August- Allan Cunningham located Cunningham’s gap by climbing Mt Mitchell as he approached from the Moreton Bay District -
Toowoomba History
Sept- Arthur Hodgson and Gilbert Elliot made contact with the NSW government at Moreton Bay via a track through Cunningham’s Gap. They had ridden from their station, Etonvale (at Mt Rubieslaw) -
Toowoomba History
7 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman, Commandant of the Moreton Bay Settlement, left the settlement to visit the Darling Downs, led by John Sterry Baker -
Toowoomba History
24 Nov- The proclamation making Toowoomba municipality and empowering its citizens to elect a mayor and aldermen was published. It was gazetted on 1 December, 1860. The municipality occupied all the land that had been surveyed at “The Swamp”, although much of it was surveyed as suburban to Drayton. -
Toowoomba History
6 October- Lieutenant Owen Gorman, last commandant of the Moreton Bay Settlement, died of pneumonia at Armidale, New South Wales at the age of 63 years. -
Toowoomba History
The Margaret Street post office was opened. The building cost 5000 pounds ($10 000); the clock cost 250 pounds ($500) -
Toowoomba History
The Margaret Street post office was opened. The building cost 5000 pounds ($10 000); the clock cost 250 pounds ($500) The Royal Bull’s Head Inn became a private residence. -
Toowoomba History
iJackie Howe, at Isis Downs Station, Blackall, shore 321 sheep in 8 hours 40 mnutes. He established a record never to be equalled by blade shearers. At Barcaldine Downs, using machines for the first time, Jackie Howe shore 370 sheep in eight hours. Even with the introduction of mechanical shears, Jackie’s record stood for 58 years. In 1950 Ted Rieck shore 326 sheep on a Julia Creek property. Jackie Howe who was born in Warwick became immortalised through the low-necked sleeveless, flannel single