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The 1830's

1831 - Friday, January 21

Victorian Premier George Kerferd was born.

1832 - Saturday, January 7

Victorian Premier James Munro was born.

1833 - Tuesday, October 15

Victorian Premier John MacPherson was born.

1833 - Monday, November 18

Victorian Premier James Brown Patterson was born.

1834 - Friday, May 30

Sir Frederick Thomas Sargood, Victorian merchant and politician was born at Walworth in London.

1834 - Wednesday, November 19

Edward Henty established a settlement at Portland, having sailed from Launceston in the 'Thistle' with five servants and a small quantity of stock.

1835 - Sunday, May 31

John Batman had his first encounter and meeting with indigenous inhabitants of Port Phillip.

1835 - Saturday, June 13

Batmania is suggested as named for proposed settlement which later becomes Melbourne.

1835 - Tuesday, June 16

John Batman signs a treaty on the banks of a creek with eight Aboriginal elders to transfer the land of Port Phillip area to Batman, in what would later be known as the town of Melbourne. Both the transfer to a person rather than the Crown, and its implicit recognition of Indigenous ownership and occupation of the land, prompted Governor Bourke to disallow the Treaty the same year.

1835 - Sunday, July 12

Escaped convict William Buckley appeared at John Batman's camp at Indented Head, and reassimilated wth European culture, after having lived with the local Aborigines for 32 years.

1835 - Friday, August 7

Henry Batman (brother of John Batman) with his wife and four children, and John Helder Wedge landed at Indented Head from the 'Rebecca'.

1835 - Sunday, August 30

A ship, the 'Enterprize', charted by John Pascoe Fawkner and captained by George Evans lands along the Yarra.

1835 - Wednesday, September 2

J.H.Wedge warned that the new settlers are trespassing on land bought by Batman from the Aborigines.

1835 - Monday, November 9

The barque 'Norval' arrived in Hobson's Bay with John Batman among the passengers and sheep and cattle.

1836 - Wednesday, June 1

The first settlers of Melbourne established their own defacto government.

1836 - Wednesday, August 31

Sir Thomas A'Beckett, Victorian judge, was born in London, the son of Thomas Turner A'Beckett.

1836 - Friday, September 9

The Governor Sir Richard Bourke proclaimed the official settlement of Port Phillip and appointed Captain William Lonsdale as Police Magistrate for the district.

1836 - Saturday, October 1

Captain William Lonsdale arrived to act as police magistrate and commander of the settlement.

1836 - Wednesday, October 5

J.W.Hooson, first Police Officer of Victoria, arrived in Melbourne from Sydney.

1837 - Saturday, March 4

Governor Sir Richard Bourke arrived in Melbourne in Port Phillip District for several days visiting the settlement.

1837 - Monday, April 10

The official naming of the towns of Melbourne and Williamstown were gazetted in the New South Wales Government Gazette (printed 12 April 1837) after Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, visited Melbourne in March 1837. On 10 April, back in Sydney, the Governor issued an order naming Melbourne and Williams Town after King William IV. Melbourne was named after William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, who was at the time the Prime Minister of England.

1837 - Saturday, May 27

Robert Hoddle, first Government Surveyor arrived in Melbourne.

1837 - Thursday, June 1

First allotments of land in the settlement were put up for sale.

1838 - Monday, January 1

The first Melbourne newspaper, a miniature sheet of four pages handwritten in manuscript, called the Port Phillip Advertiser, was issued as a weekly.

1838 - Tuesday, January 2

John Conway Bourke left Melbourne to take the first mail overland to Sydney, meeting a Sydney mailman at Yass.

1838 - Sunday, April 15

The first punt was launched on the Yarra by William Watts.

1838 - Thursday, June 28

The coronation of Queen Victoria takes place in Westminster Abbey, a year after she had ascended the throne.

1838 - Saturday, October 27

Port Phillip Gazette, second Victorian newspaper was first published.

1838 - Tuesday, October 30

First Temperance meeting was held in Melbourne.

1838 - Saturday, November 17

The birth of the Melbourne Cricket Ground is heralded in a match between civilian and military teams on Batman's Hill.

1838 - Friday, December 7

Victorian Premier Sir Thomas Bent was born.

1839 - Thursday, April 4

The Parishes of North Melbourne and South Melbourne were created.

1839 - Monday, May 6

John Batman died.

1839 - Wednesday, May 8

John Batman's remains were buried at the Old Cemetery, Melbourne.

1839 - Sunday, July 28

The first Mass was said in the newly completed Roman Catholic chapel in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, named St Francis Church.

1839 - Thursday, October 3

Charles Joseph LaTrobe arrived to take up the position of Superintendent of Port Phillip District

1839 - Saturday, November 9

The foundation stone of St James' Anglican Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, was laid by the Superintendent, Charles Joseph La Trobe.