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The 1880's

1880 - Monday, February 9

Dissolution of 9th Victorian Parliament.

1880 - Saturday, February 28

A general election was held in Victoria.

1880 - Friday, March 5

James Service assumed office as Premier of Victoria.

Premier of Victoria, Graham Berry, retired from office, having served 1020 days.

1880 - Friday, April 2

Royal Commission on the Constitution of the Supreme Court established.

1880 - Tuesday, May 11

The Opening of the 10th Victorian Parliament was celebrated.

The Hon. Sir Charles MacMahon became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

1880 - Sunday, June 27

Ned Kelly and his gang of bushrangers occupy Glenrowan Hotel in Victoria.

1880 - Tuesday, June 29

Dissolution of 10th Victorian Parliament.

Australia's most famous bushranger, Ned Kelly, is wounded and captured at Glenrowan, Victoria.

1880 - Wednesday, July 14

A general election was held in Victoria.

1880 - Thursday, July 22

Opening of 11th Victorian Parliament.

The Hon. Peter Lalor became Victoria's 4th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

1880 - Tuesday, August 3

Graham Berry assumed office for his third term as Premier of Victoria.

Premier of Victoria, James Service, retired from office, having served 152 days.

1880 - Tuesday, September 21

Royal Commission on Parliament Buildings presented its third and final report to Parliament. The Royal Commission was appointed to superintend the carrying out of recommendations made by a Joint Select Committee for the building of Parliament.

1880 - Tuesday, September 28

Royal Commission on the Constitution of the Supreme Court presented its final report to Parliament.

1880 - Thursday, November 11

Bushranger Ned Kelly was hanged at 10 am at the Melbourne Gaol while a large crowd outside mourned his passing. He was just 25 years of age.

1881 - Monday, March 7

Royal Commission of enquiry into the circumstances of the Kelly outbreak, the present state and organization of the police force, etc. was established.

1881 - Saturday, July 9

Sir Bryan O'Loghlen assumed office as Premier of Victoria.

Premier of Victoria, Graham Berry, retired from office, having served 341 days.

1881 - Tuesday, September 20

Royal Commission on tariff established.

1881 - Tuesday, November 15

Royal Commission on education established.

1881 - Monday, November 21

Victorian Premier Ian MacFarlan was born.

1881 - Monday, November 28

Royal Assent granted to act reforming Legislative Council: voter eligibility criteria reformed.

1882 - Thursday, January 19

Victorian Premier John Cain (Snr) was born.

1882 - Sunday, January 22

Royal Commission on employees in shops established.

1882 - Tuesday, January 24

Royal Commission upon certain alleged violations of the conditions and provisions of the Land Act 1869 was established.

1882 - Wednesday, February 1

Royal Commission upon certain alleged violations of the conditions and provisions of the Land Act 1869 presented its final report to Parliament. (Exact date uncertain.)

(February-March) Library interior decorated by Charles Paterson; previously the plasterwork had been left white

1882 - Wednesday, July 26

Victorian Premier Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan was born.

1883 - Saturday, February 3

Dissolution of 11th Victorian Parliament.

1883 - Thursday, February 22

A general election was held in Victoria.

1883 - Tuesday, February 27

The Opening of the 12th Victorian Parliament was celebrated.

1883 - Thursday, March 8

James Service assumed office for his second term as Premier of Victoria.

Premier of Victoria, Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, retired from office, having served 608 days.

1883 - Friday, April 6

Royal Commission of enquiry into the circumstances of the Kelly outbreak, the present state and organization of the police force, etc. presented its final report to Parliament.

1883 - Saturday, May 5

Sir John O'Shanassy, Victorian politician and businessman, the second Premier of Victoria in 1857, and Premier again from 1858 to 1859 and 1861 to 1863, died in Melbourne.

1883 - Thursday, June 14

Train service between Sydney and Melbourne began.

1883 - Thursday, July 5

The Victorian Parliament in a narrow vote forced the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne to close on Sundays.

1883 - Wednesday, October 3

Sir George Victor Lansell, newspaper proprietor, businessman and politician was born in London.

1883 - Wednesday, October 31

Royal Commission on tariff presented its final report to Parliament.

1883 - Saturday, November 3

Prorogation of Second Session of Twelfth Parliament of Victoria.

Water Conservation Act passed.

1883 - Wednesday, December 12

Edmund John Hogan, Victorian farmer, politician and Premier was born at Wallace, Victoria.

1884 - Friday, January 25

Former Victorian Premier James Francis died.

1884 - Friday, February 22

Former Victorian Premier Charles Sladen died.

1884 - Friday, April 18

The Most Hon. George Augustus Constantine Phipps, Marquess of Normanby, P.C., G.C.M.G. retired as Governor of Victoria.

1884 - Wednesday, May 7

Royal Commission on asylums for the insane and inebriate was established.

1884 - Thursday, June 5

Royal Commission on employees in shops presented its final report to Parliament.

1884 - Thursday, June 26

Royal Commission on education presented its final report to Parliament.

1884 - Tuesday, July 15

Sir Henry Brougham Loch, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. was sworn in as Governor of Victoria.

1884 - Monday, September 1

Royal Commission on land titles and surveys established.

1884 - Monday, November 24

Sir William Mitchell retired as President.

1884 - Thursday, November 27

The Hon. Sir James McBain became Victoria's third President of the Legislative Council.

1884 - Friday, December 12

The Railway Construction Act, called the 'Octopus Act', authorizing 66 new railway lines in Victoria was assented to.

1884 - Tuesday, December 23

Royal Commission on water supply established.

1885 - Saturday, February 14

The Victorian Government offers to send troops to the Sudan.

1885 - Friday, March 13

The first Employers' Union was established in Melbourne.

1885 - Wednesday, June 10

Royal Commission on land titles and surveys presented its final report to Parliament.

1885 - Monday, September 7

Royal Commission on vegetable products established.

1886 - Thursday, February 18

Duncan Gillies assumed office as Premier of Victoria.

Premier of Victoria, James Service, retired from office, having served 1079 days.

1886 - Friday, February 19

Dissolution of 12th Victorian Parliament.

1886 - Friday, March 5

A general election was held in Victoria.

1886 - Tuesday, March 16

The Opening of the 13th Victorian Parliament was celebrated.

1886 - Thursday, April 29

Royal Commission on asylums for the insane and inebriate presented its final report to Parliament.

1886 - Saturday, June 12

The Shearers Union was formed at a meeting at Fern's Hotel in Ballarat with W.G. Spence as Chairman.

1886 - Wednesday, August 11

Coode Canal opened

1886 - Friday, October 1

Memorial Stone of Parliament House laid; Payment of MLAs made permanent

The Alexandra Theatre on Exhibition Street, Melbourne opens. It later becomes Her Majesty's.

1886 - Tuesday, November 30

Report from the Joint Select Committee on the Parliament Buildings recommends completion of the north and north-eastern wings of Parliament House.

1887 - Tuesday, January 18

Royal Commission on the extension of Melbourne westwards was established.

1887 - Wednesday, February 23

Royal Commission on banking laws established.

1887 - Friday, May 6

A meeting at the Melbourne Town Hall launched the Working Men's College in Melbourne, the dream of Francis Ormond to enable working men to receive a good technical education. The 'Argus' noted the large number of working men present encouraged to support the new institution.

1887 - Tuesday, June 21

Queen Victoria celebrates her golden jubilee marking 50 years on the British throne.

1887 - Wednesday, July 20

Royal Commission on banking laws presented its final report to Parliament.

1887 - Thursday, August 18

Royal Commission on the extension of Melbourne westwards presented its final report to Parliament.

1887 - Tuesday, October 4

The Hon. Sir Matthew Henry Davies became Victoria's 5th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

1887 - Friday, November 18

Royal Commission on water supply presented its final report to Parliament.

1888 - Thursday, January 5

Royal Commission on ventilation and lighting of the Legislative Assembly chamber established.

1888 - Tuesday, March 20

Royal Commission to enquire into the sanitary conditions of Melbourne was established.

1888 - Wednesday, April 25

Royal Commission on ventilation and lighting of the Legislative Assembly chamber presented its second and final report to Parliament.

1888 - Thursday, October 4

Princes Bridge, which was commenced in 1886 to replace Lennox's Bridge, was opened.

1888 - Saturday, December 22

The 1000th Act of the Victorian Parliament, the Discipline Acts Amendment Act 1888 operative 22 December 1888

1889 - Monday, March 11

Dissolutions of 13th Parliament.

1889 - Thursday, March 28

A general election was held in Victoria.

1889 - Tuesday, April 9

Opening of 14th Victorian Parliament.

1889 - Wednesday, May 1

The first official anti-Chinese meeting was held at Melbourne Town Hall.

1889 - Monday, July 15

Royal Commission on gold mining established.

Royal Commission on coal established.

1889 - Friday, November 15

Sir Henry Brougham Loch, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. retired as Governor of Victoria.

1889 - Monday, November 25

Prorogation of Second Session of Fifteenth Parliament of Victoria.

Parliament passes Public Health Act, establishing a Department of Public Health.

1889 - Thursday, November 28

The Right Hon. John Adrian Louis Hope, the Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.M.G. was sworn in as Governor of Victoria

1889 - Tuesday, December 31

Former Victorian Premier George Kerferd died.