Toowoombas history

By shunt131
  • Jul 23, 1580

    second application

    23 July- A second application was made for a school at Drayton.
    4 Nov- The first school was opened on Canning Downs.

  • Darling Downs

    6 June- Allan Cunningham discovered the Darling Downs.

  • Patric Leslie

    20 March- Patrick Leslie arrived at the junction of Sandy Creek (later named) and the Condamine River.

  • Patrick and George

    21 June Patrick and George or Walter Leslie with Peter Murphy rode to Gowrie though Cunningham’s Gap, halting at the Bremer River and eventually

  • The first head station

    2 July- The first head station was established by the Leslie brothers at Toolburra This was the first permanent pastoral settlement in present day QLD

  • John Sterry Baker

    4 Aug- John Sterry Baker returned to the Moreton Bay settlement after living with aborigines for 14 years.

  • Gorman's Gap

    17 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman’s party passed through Gorman’s Gap.

  • Etonvale Station

    19 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman reached Etonvale Station

  • (Tinker) Campbell

    19 Nov- First shearing at Etonvale Station
    - Westbrook Station was settled by John (Tinker) Campbell

  • Walter Leslie

    20 Nov- Walter Leslie took drays from Toolburra Station to Brisbane via Gorman’s Gap

  • Ludwig Leichhardt's

    4 April- Ludwig Leichhardt’s last letter from Mt Abundance Station

  • - Ludwig Leichhardt’s

    4 April- Ludwig Leichhardt’s last letter from Mt Abundance Station

  • William Horton

    1 May- William Horton became the licensee of the Bull Head’s Inn.

  • First horse races at Drayton

    21 June- First horse races at Drayton.
    Patrick Leslie bought back Goomburra Station
    First meeting re the school at Drayton held in the Bull’s Head In

  • In the Bull’s Head Inn

    20 August- In the Bull’s Head Inn, the Reverend B Glennie conducted the first Church of England service on the Downs.

  • Toll Bar Road

    1 January- a 2 pence ( 2 cent) toll was introduced on the Toll Bar Road

  • Toowoomba municipality

    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.

  • Lieutenant Owen Gorman

    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.

  • Lieutenant Owen Gorman

    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.

  • the first Train

    12 April- The first train reached Toowoomba from Ipswich, taking 6 hours to complete the journey.

  • The birth of Arthur

    14 November- The birth of Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) of “Dad and Dave” fame.

  • 16 September- The railway to Roma was opened.

    16 September- The railway to Roma was opened.

  • Toowoomba

    20 October- Toowoomba declared a city.

  • Cunningham's Gap

    11 June- Cunningham’s Gap road was opened