Timeline of Geelong history
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- 1802 – Lady Nelson enters Corio Bay
- 1803 – Escaped convict William Buckley living in area.
- 1835 – John Batman establishes base camp at Indented Head
- 1838 – Geelong township surveyed, Geelong population is 545.
- 1839 – First sale of Geelong town allotments
- 1839 – First postal mail between Geelong and Melbourne
- 1840 – First issue of the Geelong Advertiser newspaper is published
- 1842 – First St Mary's Catholic Church opens
- 1845 – Geelong Keys discovered at Corio Bay
- 1849 – The Geelong town council is incorporated.
- 1850 – Geelong is the fifth largest town in Victoria.
- 1851 – Gold is found in the Mount Bunninyong district
- 1851 – Geelong population is 8,000
- 1853 – Geelong population is 22,000
- 1855 – Geelong Grammar School founded
- 1855 – St Augustine's Boys Orphanage established
- 1857 – Victoria's first country railway from Geelong to Melbourne is built
- 1859 – Thomas Austin releases 24 rabbits into the wild on his property 'Barwon Park' at Winchelsea just outside Geelong on Christmas Day, introducing the rabbit to Australia.
- 1862 – Geelong to Ballarat railway opens
- 1888 – First telephone exchange in Geelong opens
- 1890 – Geelong Cementworks Opens
20th century
- 1910 – Geelong officially becomes a city
- 1912 – Electric trams begin operation in Geelong
- 1912 – First automatic telephone exchange in the Southern Hemisphere opens in Geelong
- 1920 – Royal Australian Navy's submarine fleet based at Osborne House
- 1925 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership
- 1925 – Ford Australia plant opens at Norlane
- 1925 – Retail chain Target opens first store in Geelong
- 1926 – Geelong suburb Highton gets struck by tornado
- 1930 – 3GL radio station opens
- 1931 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership
- 1937 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership
- 1940 – Manning Clark begins teaching at Geelong Grammar School
- 1951 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership
- 1952 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership
- 1954 – Shell refinery opens at Corio
- 1956 – Electric trams cease operation in Geelong
- 1963 – Geelong Football Club wins premiership
- 1963 – Alcoa aluminum smelter opens at Point Henry
- 1965 – Holy Cross Hospital (later St John of God Geelong Hospital) opens
- 1977 – First students enrolled at Deakin University at Waurn Ponds
- 1980 – Christian College opens
- 1983 – Ash Wednesday fires cause major damage at nearby coastal areas
- 1987 – National Wool Museum opens
- 1990 – First commercial FM Radio station K-Rock begins FM broadcasting
- 1990 – Pyramid Building Society collapse
- 1991 – HM Prison Geelong officially closes