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The 1890's

1890 - Monday, January 6: Royal Commission to enquire into the sanitary conditions of Melbourne presented its final report to Parliament.
1890 - Friday, February 7: Dr Emma Constance Stone of Melbourne became the first registered woman doctor in Australia.
1890 - Tuesday, March 18: Royal Commission on charitable institutions was established.
1890 - Friday, April 18: Queen Street Bridge was opened.
1890 - Monday, June 9: A meeting in the Melbourne Town Hall was held in protest against the use of 'sweating' in labour in the workshop.
1890 - Wednesday, November 5: James Munro assumed office as Premier of Victoria.; Premier of Victoria, Duncan Gillies, retired from office, having served 1722 days.
1890 - Sunday, December 14: New Trades Hall opened in Geelong.
1890 - Saturday, December 20: The Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act was assented to in Victoria, to come into force on 1 July 1891.
1891 - Thursday, January 22: St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne was officially consecrated.
1891 - Friday, April 17: John Hancock was elected to the lower house seat of Collingwood, becoming the first Member of Parliament in Victoria to represent the Labor cause. His success as a Labor candidate encouraged the formation of the Progressive Political League.
1891 - Wednesday, September 30: Royal Commission on gold mining presented its final report to Parliament.
1891 - Friday, October 9: The Mace of the Legislative Assembly was stolen from Speaker Matthew Davies chambers in Parliament House. The suspect was the Parliamentary electrician, Thomas Jeffey, though this was never proved. Charges were never laid, nor the mace recovered and it continued to be a source of embarrassment for the parliament and the subject of a select committee enquiry. The old wooden mace (the first) was put back into service until a new mace of silver and gold plate replaced it on June 18 1901.
1891 - Monday, October 12: Victorian Government announced a reward of Ł100 for information on the theft of the mace.
1891 - Friday, December 18: Royal Commission on coal presented its third and final report to Parliament.
1892 - Tuesday, February 16: William Shiels assumed office as Premier of Victoria.; Premier of Victoria, James Munro, retired from office, having served 469 days.
1892 - Tuesday, April 5: Dissolution of 14th Victorian Parliament.
1892 - Wednesday, April 20: A general election was held in Victoria.
1892 - Wednesday, May 11: Opening of 15th Victorian Parliament.; The Hon. Sir Thomas Bent became Victoria's 6th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1892 - Monday, May 23: Frederick Deeming (Bailey) was hanged in Melbourne for the murder of his wife, ending the life of one of the most notorious murderers of the 1890s.
1892 - Tuesday, November 8: Sir James MacBain retired as President.
1892 - Thursday, November 10: The Hon. Sir William Austin Zeal became Victoria's 4th President of the Legislative Council.
1893 - Monday, January 23: Sir James Brown Patterson assumed office as Premier of Victoria.; Premier of Victoria, William Shiels, retired from office, having served 343 days.
1893 - Tuesday, January 31: Former Victorian Premier James McCulloch died.
1893 - Sunday, February 5: The central city of Melbourne was connected to a sewerage system.
1893 - Monday, February 6: A Board of inquiry was appointed by the Patterson government, on the recommendation of Speaker Thomas Bent, to investigate the theft of the Parliamentary Mace.
1893 - Tuesday, September 26: Report of the board inquiring into the theft of the mace was tabled in the Legislative Assembly. The findings were never published.
1893 - Monday, October 9: John Montgomery Templeton elected MLA for Benalla and Yarrawonga. Election was declared void on 1 November, making Templeton the shortest Serving MP.
1893 - Monday, November 6: Prorogation of Fourth Session of Fifth Parliament of Victoria.
1894 - Saturday, February 17: Former Victorian Premier John MacPherson died.
1894 - Wednesday, March 7: Royal Commission on water supply established.
1894 - Friday, March 9: Royal Commission on constitutional reform was established.
1894 - Friday, April 20: A meeting of women in Melbourne founded the Women's Suffrage Society.
1894 - Monday, June 4: Vincent Pyke, politician, public servant and author in Victoria and New Zealand, died in Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand aged 67.
1894 - Friday, June 15: Royal Commission on vegetable products presented its final report to Parliament.
1894 - Tuesday, July 10: Royal Commission on constitutional reform presented its final report to Parliament.
1894 - Wednesday, August 22: Reverend Alexander Robert Edgar of Melbourne's Wesleyan Church was called to the bar of the Legislative Assembly chamber over his sermons criticising the behaviour of Victoria's Parliamentarians and their connection with the loss of the mace.
1894 - Tuesday, September 4: Dissolution of 15th Victorian Parliament.
1894 - Thursday, September 20: A general election was held in Victoria.
1894 - Thursday, September 27: Sir George Turner assumed office as Premier of Victoria.; Premier of Victoria, Sir James Brown Patterson, retired from office, having served 613 days.
1894 - Thursday, October 4: Opening of 16th Victorian Parliament.; The Hon. Sir Graham Berry became Victoria's 7th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1894 - Tuesday, November 20: Royal Commission on State banking established.
1895 - Friday, July 12: The Right Hon. John Adrian Louis Hope, the Earl of Hopetoun, G.C.M.G. retired as Governor of Victoria
1895 - Monday, August 12: Royal Commission on charitable institutions presented its final report to Parliament.
1895 - Friday, October 25: The Right Hon. The Lord Brassey, K.C.B. was sworn in as Governor of Victoria
1895 - Wednesday, October 30: Former Victorian Premier James Brown Patterson died.
1895 - Wednesday, November 6: Royal Commission on State banking presented its final report to Parliament.
1896 - Tuesday, May 12: Royal Commission on the Mildura settlement established.
1896 - Thursday, August 27: Royal Commission on water supply presented its final report to Parliament.
1896 - Saturday, September 5: Ten women doctors met at the home of Dr Constance Stone in East Melbourne and planned what was to become the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women, Melbourne.
1896 - Thursday, September 17: Royal Commission on the Mildura presented its final report to Parliament.
1897 - Saturday, March 20: Royal Commission on old-age pensions was established.
1897 - Wednesday, April 7: Royal Commission on law reform established.
1897 - Tuesday, June 8: Royal Commission on State Forests and Timber Reserves: fire-protection in country districts was established. This examined the measures necessary to prevent the careless use of fire, or the spread of bush or grass fires on public and private lands.
1897 - Tuesday, September 28: Dissolution of 16th Victorian Parliament.
1897 - Thursday, October 14: A general election was held in Victoria.
1897 - Monday, October 25: Opening of 17th Victorian Parliament.; The Hon. Francis Conway Mason became Victoria's 8th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
1897 - Wednesday, October 27: St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne was officially consecrated by Archbishop Thomas Joseph Carr.
1898 - Tuesday, February 1: Royal Commission on tramway employees' grievances was established.
1898 - Thursday, May 12: Royal Commission on old-age pensions presented its final report to Parliament.
1898 - Tuesday, August 16: Royal Commission on tramway employees' grievances presented its final report to Parliament.
1898 - Tuesday, December 6: Victorian Premier Sir John Gladstone Black McDonald was born.
1899 - Sunday, January 22: Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss a federation bill.
1899 - Wednesday, April 12: Former Victorian Premier James Service died.
1899 - Monday, April 24: Royal Commission on refrigerating stores and central wine depot established.
1899 - Monday, May 8: Royal Commission on land selection at Mount Macedon established.
1899 - Tuesday, June 20: Royal Commission on technical education was established.
1899 - Monday, July 31: Sir Arthur George Warner, Victorian industrialist and politician was born in London.
1899 - Friday, September 8: Royal Commission on land selection at Mount Macedon presented its final report to Parliament.
1899 - Friday, December 1: Royal Commission on law reform presented its final report to Parliament. (Exact day and month uncertain.)
1899 - Tuesday, December 5: Allan McLean assumed office as Premier of Victoria.; Premier of Victoria, Sir George Turner, retired from office, having served 1896 days.