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1 May 1802 - Matthew Flinders climbs Station Peak.
Explorer Matthew Flinders climbs the highest point of the You Yangs with three of his men and surveyed the Werribee Plain. He named this point Station Peak, but is was renamed Flinders Peak in his honour in 1912. -
1 Rainsford Street,
(former Police Paddocks area),
WerribeeEdwardian timber house with gabled-hip roof. -
11 February 1803 - Grimes takes in the Werribee plain
Charles Grimes, Surveyor-General of the Colony of New South Wales stands atop a small hill and takes in the Werribee Plain.
He crosses the Kororoit and Skeleton creeks, three days later he came upon the Werribee River. -
11 March 1864 — Wyndham declared a shire
The Governor of Victoria, Sir Charles Henry Darling, announced in the Victoria Government Gazette [dated Friday 11 March 1864 p. 978] that the Wyndham Road District, having an area of one hundred square miles and collecting annual rates amounting to the sum of £1,000, could be proclaimed a Shire—thereafter named The Shire of Wyndham.Tags has:placeholder -
1824 - Hume and Hovell pass through Werribee district on their way to Corio Bay
1824 - Explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell camped on Werribee on the 19 December 1824.Tags has:placeholder -
1839 - Traveller’s Rest Inn established at Little River
Traveller’s Rest Inn established at Little River -
1849 —The Plan of Township of Wyndham is signed off by Robert Hoddle, the surveyor of Melbourne.
1849 —The Plan of Township of Wyndham is signed off by Robert Hoddle, the surveyor of Melbourne.Tags has:placeholder -
1850 - Thomas Chirnside purchases Werribee Lower property.
Thomas Chirnside occupies land on the west bank of the Werribee River
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