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Indigenous people

Main article: Tasmanian Aborigines

Tasmania was once inhabited by an indigenous population, the Tasmanian Aborigines, and evidence indicates their presence in the territory, later to become an island, at least 35 000 years ago. The indigenous population at the time of British settlement in 1803 has been estimated at 5 000, but through persecution (see Black War and Black Line) and disease the population was eradicated (some mixed-blood descendants still survive). The impact of introduced diseases, prior to the first European estimates of the size of Tasmania's population, means that the original indigenous population could have been somewhat larger than 5 000. The last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine was Truganini - she died in Hobart in 1876. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Indigenous peoples are: Peoples living in an area prior to colonization by a state Peoples living in an area within a nation-state, prior to the formation of a nation-state, but who do not identify with the dominant nation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Poster issued in Van Diemens Land during the Black War depicting Lieutenant-Governor Daveys policy of friendship and equal justice for settlers and aborigines. ... The Black Line is a notorious incident that occurred in 1830 on Tasmania, or Van Diemens Land as it was then known. ... A disease or medical condition is an abnormality that causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, or death to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person. ... Genocide is the mass killing of a group of people as defined by Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or... Truganini; this photograph was probably taken around 1870. ...

European arrival

Main article: Van Diemens Land

The first reported sighting of Tasmania by a European was on November 24th 1642 by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt, after his sponsor, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. The name was later shortened to Van Diemens Land by the British. Captain James Cook also sighted the island in 1777, and numerous other European seafarers made landfalls, adding a colourful array to the names of topographical features. Van Diemens Land is the name originally used by the British for Tasmania, an island state of Australia. ... This article is about the continent. ... November 24 is the 328th day (329th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 4 - Charles I attempts to arrest five leading members of the Long Parliament, but they escape. ... Portrait of Tasman (detail from the family portrait) The only evidence to support this claim is a library catalogue entry Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - October 10, 1659), was a Dutch seafarer, explorer and then merchant, born in Lutjegast, a village in the province of Groningen, best known for his voyages... Van Diemens Land is the name originally used by the British for Tasmania, an island state of Australia. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Year 1777 (MDCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ...

The first settlement was by the British at Risdon Cove on the eastern bank of the Derwent estuary in 1803, by a small party sent from Sydney, under Lt. John Bowen. An alternative settlement was established by Capt. David Collins 5 km to the south in 1804 in Sullivan's Cove on the western side of the Derwent, where fresh water was more plentiful. The latter settlement became known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, later shortened to Hobart, after the British Colonial Secretary of the time, Lord Hobart. The settlement at Risdon was later abandoned. The Derwent is a river in Tasmania, Australia. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Sullivans Cove, is on the Derwent River, adjacent to the CBD of Hobart, Tasmania. ...

The early settlers were mostly convicts and their military guards, with the task of developing agriculture and other industries. Numerous other convict settlements were made in Van Diemens Land, including secondary prisons, such as the particularly harsh penal colonies at Port Arthur in the south-east and Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast. A penal colony is a colony used to house prisoners. ... Inside the separate prison, Port Arthur, Tasmania Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia. ...

Following the incident known as the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 in August 1848, the Irish Nationalist leaders Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence MacManus, William Smith O'Brien, Patrick O'Donoghue, Kevin Izod O'Doherty and John Martin were deported to Tasmania. They accepted the "ticket-of-leave" giving their word not to attempt to escape in return for comparative liberty on the island (some of them eventually escaped nevertheless) and were sent to different parts of Tasmania where their cottages still stand: The Young Irelander Rebellion or Famine Rebellion of 1848 was a failed uprising of the Young Ireland political movement, which took place on July 29, 1848 in the village of Ballingarry in the Republic of Ireland. ... An Irish nationalist is generally one who seeks (greater) independence of Ireland from Great Britain, including since 1921 the goal of a United Ireland. ... Thomas Francis Meagher aka: OMeagher, or Meagher of the Sword (August 3, 1823 – July 1, 1867) was an Irish revolutionary, who also served in the United States Army as a Brigadier General during the U.S. Civil War. ... Terence Bellew MacManus (Born probably County Fermanagh, 1811; died San Francisco, January 15 1861). ... William Smith OBrien (born Dromoland, Ireland, October 17, 1803; died Bangor, Wales, June 18, 1864) was an Irish Nationalist and MP and leader of the Young Ireland movement. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Kevin Izod ODoherty (September 7, 1823 - July 15, 1905) was an Irish Australian politician. ... John Martin (September 8, 1812–March 29, 1875) was an Irish nationalist activist who progressed from early militant support for Young Ireland and Repeal, to non-violent alternatives such as support for tenants rights and eventually as the first Home Rule MP, for Meath 1871-1875. ...

Meagher was sent to Campbell Town and shortly after to Ross, MacManus to Launceston and later near New Norfolk (his still existent lodging was "The Grange"), Kevin O'Doherty to Oatlands (stone cottage), John Mitchel and John Martin to Bothwell ("Nant Cottage"), Smith O'Brien (who initially refused a ticket-of-leave) to the "Penal Station" on Maria Island and later to New Norfolk. Campbell Town is a town in Tasmania, Australia, located on the Midland Highway. ... Ross is an historic town in the Midlands of the state of Tasmania in Australia. ... Launceston is a small city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, population approximately 103,000, located at the juncture of the North Esk, South Esk, and Tamar rivers. ... New Norfolk is a town on the Derwent River, in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia. ... Oatlands is an important historical village in the centre of Tasmania, Australia, halfway between Hobart and Launceston on the Heritage Highway Oatlands is considered to have the largest number of colonial sandstone buildings in any town in Australia, and many of them were built by convict labour. ... Bothwell, Tasmania is a small town with a population of about 500. ... Maria Island is a relatively small island about 10 km off the east coast of Tasmania. ... New Norfolk is a town on the Derwent River, in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia. ...

Van Diemens Land was proclaimed a separate colony from New South Wales, with its own judicial establishment and Legislative Council, on December 3, 1825. Van Diemens Land is the name originally used by the British for Tasmania, an island state of Australia. ... Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 50  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $305,437 (1st)  - Product per capita  $45,153/person (4th) Population (End of March 2006)  - Population  6,817,100 (1st)  - Density  8. ... The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Tasmania in Australia. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

World attention

Although the state is seldom in the world news, global attention turned to Tasmania on April 29, 1996 when lone gunman Martin Bryant opened fire, killing 35 tourists and residents and injuring 37 others in an incident now known as the Port Arthur Massacre. April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

Recently it has also received attention with the 2004 wedding of former Hobart woman Mary Donaldson to Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, on May 14, 2004. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The monogram of Mary and Frederik Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, formerly Mary Elizabeth Donaldson (b. ... Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (born Frederik André Henrik Christian on 26 May 1968 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the eldest son of Queen Margrethe II and her husband, Prince Consort Henrik. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (135th in leap years). ...

Global attention turned to Tasmania again in 2006, after a mine collapsed in Beaconsfield trapping two miners and tragically killing one. Location of Beaconsfield The Beaconsfield mine collapse occurred on April 25, 2006 in Beaconsfield, Tasmania, Australia. ...

Further information

• Alexander, Alison. Editor. The Companion to Tasmanian History. Hobart, 2005. ISBN 1-86295-223-X
• Robson, Lloyd. History of Tasmania, 2 Volumes.

Timeline

pre 1800

• Date unknown (BC) - Mouheneenner band of South-East Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples settle in what is now the Hobart area
• 1642 - Abel Tasman, of the Dutch East India Company, becomes first European to sight Tasmanian mainland; he names it Van Diemen's Land after Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) governor-general Antony van Diemen
• 1792 - Captain William Bligh anchors to Adventure Bay for a second time and names Table Mountain (now Mt. Wellington)
• 1793 - French explorer Bruny d'Entrecasteaux surveys Derwent, naming it Riviere du Nord
• 1793 - John Hayes, of British East India Company, unaware of the French visit, sails up the river, which he names Derwent
• 1798 - Explorers George Bass and Matthew Flinders visit Derwent as part of circumnavigation of Van Diemen's Land; Bass climbs at least part of Mount Wellington (then known as Table Mountain) on Christmas Day

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1800-1819

• 1802 - French explorer Nicolas Baudin surveys Derwent during month-long visit to South-East Tasmania, on which his party makes extensive notes on Aborigines, plants and animals.
• 1803 - Lieutenant John Bowen's 49-member party, with the ships Lady Nelson and Albion, starts first European settlement of Tasmania at Risdon Cove, naming it Hobart.
• 1804 - Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins' 262-member party lands at Sullivan's Cove in February; the settlement, which becomes known as Hobart Town, grows to 433 with arrival in June of rest of his Port Phillip party.
• 1804 - Soldiers temporarily refuse guard duties at Risdon amid fears of convict rebellion.
• 1804 - Aborigines killed in Risdon affray and settlement there abandoned.
• 1804 - Church of England clergyman Robert Knopwood conducts first divine service at Sullivans Cove.
• 1804 - Hobart's first cemetery opens, later St David's Park.
• 1804 - Colonel William Paterson establishes Port Dalrymple (Tamar River) settlement, first at George Town, then at York Town on river's western side.
• 1805 - After supply ships fail to arrive on time, famine forces David Collins to cut rations by one-third
• 1805 - Collins leaves tent home to take up residence in first Government House, a wooden cottage.
• 1805 - Harbourmaster William Collins establishes Australia's first whaling station at Ralphs Bay.
• 1805 - First land grants include 10 acres (40,000 m²) to Robert Knopwood
• 1806 - Colonel William Paterson begins transfer of York Town settlement to site of modem Launceston
• 1807 - First Norfolk Island settlers arrive in Hobart in the Lady Nelson and settle at New Norfolk
• 1807 - Lieutenant Thomas Laycock leads five-man party on first overland journey from Launceston to Hobart, taking nine days, mainly to seek supplies for the northern settlement.
• 1809 - Deposed New South Wales Governor William Bligh arrives in Hobart and temporarily disrupts David Collins' authority as lieutenant-governor.
• 1809 - Floods in Derwent
• 1810 - David Collins dies suddenly, Lieutenant Edward Lord takes over and first of three administrators pending appointment of second lieutenant-governor.
• 1810 - First church, St David's, built
• 1810 - Colony's first flour mill built beside Rivulet between Murray St and Elizabeth St, operated by Edward Lord and William Collins
• 1810 - Administration launches colony's first newspaper, the Derwent Star and Van Diemen's Land Intelligencer
• 1810 - Sealing expedition discovers Macquarie Island
• 1811 - After arriving from Sydney, Governor Lachlan Macquarie draws up plan for Hobart streets and orders construction of public buildings and Mt Nelson signal station.
• 1812 - Michael Howe (later bushranging gang leader) among first convicts to arrive directly from England in HMS Indefatigable
• 1812 - Northern Tasmania's lieutenant-governorship ceases, Government House in Hobart takes control of whole island
• 1813 - Schooner Unity not heard of again after convicts seize it in Derwent
• 1813 - Hobart and Port Dalrymple open to trading ships
• 1813 - First Post Office opens in postmaster's house on corner of Argyle St and Macquarie St
• 1814 - Work starts on Anglesea Barracks, Australia's longest continuously occupied military building
• 1814 - Colony's first horse races believed to have taken place at New Town
• 1814 - Lieutenant-governor's court created to deal with small personal financial disputes.
• 1814 - Governor Lachlan Macquarie offers amnesty to bushrangers
• 1814 - Ship Argo disappears after seizure by convicts in Derwent
• 1815 - Michael Howe's bushranging gang kills two settlers in New Norfolk raid
• 1815 - Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Davey declares martial law against all bushrangers, mainly escaped convicts, with some military deserters; Governor Machlan Macquarie later revokes order.
• 1815 - Captain James Kelly circumnavigates island in whaleboat
• 1815 - First Van Diemen's Land wheat shipment to Sydney.

Proclamation issued in 1816 to promote friendship between Aborigines and whites, though it had little effect

• 1816 - First emigrant ship arrives with free settlers from England
• 1817 - Weekly mail service begins between Hobart and Launceston
• 1817 - Work starts on new St David's Church, replacing earlier structure blown down in storm
• 1817 - First convict ships arrive directly from England
• 1817 - New Government House occupied in Macquarie St, on site of present Town Hall, lower Elizabeth St and Franklin Square.
• 1818 - Government opens flour mill in Hobart
• 1818 - Soldiers and convict kill bushranger Michael Howe on banks of Shannon River
• 1818 - Government establishes nucleus of Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
• 1819 - First proper hospital opens
• 1819 - Hobart-New Norfolk road built
• 1819 - St David's Church opens

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The Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens were established in 1818 and hold historic plant collections and a large number of significant trees, many dating back to the nineteenth century. ... A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...

1820-1839

• 1820 - Roads macadamised, carthorses replaces bullocks
• 1820 - First substantial jail completed on corner of Macquarie St and Murray St.
• 1820 - Merino sheep arrive from John Macarthur's stud in NSW.
• 1820 - First Wesleyan (Methodist) meeting in colony
• 1821 - Arrival of first Catholic clergyman, Father Phillip Conolly
• 1821 - On second visit, Governor Lachlan Macquarie chooses sites for Perth, Campbell Town, Ross, Oatlands and Brighton.
• 1821 - Officials and convicts leave Port Dalrymple to establish Macquarie Harbour penal settlement
• 1822 - Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Society holds first meeting in Hobart
• 1823 - Presbyterian Church's first official ministry in Australia begins in Hobart
• 1823 - Formation of first Tasmanian bank, Bank of Van Diemen's Land
• 1824 - Inauguration of Supreme Court
• 1824 - Cannibal convict Alexander Pearce hanged after escaping twice from Macquarie Harbour and surviving by eating companions.
• 1824 - Convict Matthew Brady begins bushranging career after Escape from Macquarie Harbour
• 1825 - Van Diemen's Land becomes colony independent of NSW with appointed Executive Council and Legislative Council.
• 1825 - Opening of Richmond Bridge, Australia's oldest existing bridge.
• 1825 - Party of soldiers and convicts establishes Maria Island penal settlement
• 1826 - Van Diemen's Land Company launches North-West pastoral and agricultural development at Circular Head.
• 1826 - Tasmanian Turf Club established
• 1826 - Settler John Batman, later one of Melbourne's founders, helps to capture bushranger Matthew Brady near Launceston.
• 1826 - Disease epidemic in Hobart, blamed on rivulet pollution
• 1826 - Courthouse built on corner of Macquarie St and Murray St
• 1826 - Street lighting with oil lamps introduced
• 1826 - Legislative Council meets formally for the first time
• 1827 - First regatta-style events on Derwent
• 1827 - Van Diemen's Land Company begins settlement at Emu Bay (now Burnie)
• 1828 - Proclamation by Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur excludes Aborigines from settled areas
• 1828 - Martial law later declared against Aborigines in settled areas after Van Diemen's Land Company shepherds kills 30 Aborigines at Cape Grim
• 1828 - Start of regular mail service with Sydney
• 1828 - Widespread floods
• 1829 - Jail for women convicts ("female factory") opens at Cascades
• 1829 - "Protector" George Augustus Robinson starts Aboriginal mission at Bruny Island
• 1829 - Convicts seize brig Cyprus at Recherche Bay and sail to China
• 1829 - Van Diemen's Land Scientific Society formed under patronage of Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur
• 1829 - Hobart-New Norfolk coach service begins
• 1830 - George Augustus Robinson starts reconciliation efforts with Aborigines by visiting west coast
• 1830 - Administration launches notorious "Black Line" military campaign across most of colony to round up Aborigines; in seven weeks two are shot and two are captured
• 1830 - Port Arthur penal settlement established
• 1830 - Convict chain gang starts work on causeway across Derwent at Bridgewater
• 1831 - Australia's first novel, Quintus Servinton, by Henry Savery, published in Hobart
• 1831 - New land regulations discontinue free land grants, replacing them with sales
• 1832 - George Augustus Robinson arrives in Hobart with Aborigines from Oyster Bay and Big River tribes, the last Aborigines removed from European-settled areas; Wybalenna, Flinders Island, chosen for Aboriginal resettlement site.
• 1832 - Ends of martial law against Aborigines
• 1832 - Work starts on Cascade Brewery
• 1832 - Regular Hobart-Launceston coach service begins
• 1832 - Maria Island penal settlement closes
• 1832 - Derwent Light ("Iron Pot") lit for first time
• 1833 - First professional theatrical performance in Hobart
• 1833 - Macquarie Harbour penal settlement closes, convicts transferred to Port Arthur
• 1834 - Convicts evacuating Macquarie Harbour capture brig Frederick and sail to Chile
• 1834 - Stagecoaches begin daily Hobart-New Norfolk, weekly Hobart-Launceston services
• 1834 - Daily Hobart-New Norfolk steamship trips begin
• 1834 - Launceston "female factory" completed
• 1834 - Point Puer boys' convict establishment opens at Port Arthur
• 1834 - First coal shipment leaves convict mines on Tasman Peninsula
• 1834 - Jury trial system for all civil cases begins
• 1834 - Horse-drawn coaches begin taxi-style service
• 1834 - Henty brothers leave Launceston for Portland Bay to make first European settlement in Victoria
• 1835 - Nearly all remaining Tasmanian Aborigines surrender to George Augustus Robinson and are moved to Flinders Island
• 1835 - Transport George III sinks in D'Entrecasteaux Channel with loss of 139 male convicts of 220 aboard
• 1835 - In separate expeditions, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner leave Launceston to launch first European settlements at Port Phillip, which developed into Melbourne.
• 1835 - Colonial artist John Glover sends 35 paintings of Van Diemen's Land to London exhibition.
• 1835 - First meeting to establish Launceston Bank for Savings
• 1836 - Famed British naturalist Charles Darwin visits Hobart during round-the-world voyage in HMS Beagle
• 1836 - Post office moves to premises on corner of Elizabeth St and Collins St
• 1837 - Theatre Royal opens
• 1837 - Lieutenant Governor Sir John Franklin founds Tasmanian Society for the Study of Natural Science
• 1837 - Police office built on corner of Macquarie St and Murray St
• 1838 - First annual Hobart Regatta on Derwent
• 1838 - Work begins on old Customs House, which becomes Parliament House at start of responsible self-government in 1856
• 1838 - Sir John Franklin establishes board of education to introduce non-denominational schools
• 1838 - Bruny Island lighthouse completed

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1840-1859

• 1840 - Economic depression starts, continues until 1845
• 1840 - Captain James Ross arrives with Antarctic expedition in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror
• 1840 - Sir John Franklin establishes Ross Bank meteorological observatory site, named after explorer, near present Government House site
• 1840 - Dr William Bedford founds first Hobart private hospital (in house near Theatre Royal) after dispute at government hospital
• 1840 - Transportation from Britain to NSW ends, causing heavier influx of convicts to Tasmania
• 1842 - Colony's first official census, population 57,471
• 1842 - Hobart Proclaimed a city
• 1842 - Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science, first Australian scientific journal, begins publication
• 1842 - Peak year for convict arrivals (5329)
• 1842 - Maria Island's Darlington penitentiary reopened
• 1843 - Arrival of Tasmania's first Anglican bishop, Francis Russell
• 1843 - Bushranger Martin Cash captured in Hobart, his death sentence was commuted and he later gets pardon
• 1844 - First Catholic bishop, Robert Willson, arrives
• 1844 - Formation of Royal Society of Tasmania, first branch outside Britain, as development of society founded in 1837 by Sir John Franklin; society branch takes over botanical gardens
• 1844 - Norfolk Island, formerly administered by NSW, comes under Tasmanian control
• 1845 - Emigrant ship Cataraqui wrecked near King Island, 406 lives lost
• 1845 - Hobart Savings Bank opens
• 1845 - Jewish community consecrates Hobart Synagogue, Australia's oldest
• 1845 - Artist John Skinner Prout organises first known Australian exhibition of pictures in Hobart
• 1846 - Foundation of the Hutchins School and Launceston Grammar School
• 1846 - Lieutenant-governor Sir John Eardley-Wilmot dismissed, allegedly for failure to suppress convict homosexuality
• 1846 - Convict transportation to Tasmania suspended until 1848
• 1846 - Tasmania becomes first Australian colony to enact legislation to protect native animals
• 1847 - Britain orders closure of NSW convict establishment and transfer of remaining prisoners to Tasmania
• 1847 - Big Hobart meeting petitions Queen Victoria for end to transportation
• 1847 - Wybalenna Aboriginal settlement at Flinders Island closes and surviving 47 Aborigines move to Oyster Cove
• 1847 - News of Sir John Franklin's death during Arctic exploration reaches Hobart
• 1847 - Charles Davis founds hardware business
• 1847 - Launceston doctor W. R. Pugh uses ether as general anaesthetic for first time in Tasmania
• 1848 - Hobart peaks as whaling port, with 1046 men aboard 37 ships
• 1848 - Colony now only place of transportation in British Empire
• 1849 - 'Young Irelanders' (Irish political prisoners), including William Smith O'Brien, arrive at Port Arthur
• 1849 - Anti-transportation league formed after Launceston public meeting
• 1849 - Tasmania gets first public library
• 1849 - Tasmanian apple growers export to the United States of America and New Zealand
• 1850 - Prisoner Patrick O'Donoghue starts publishing 'The Irish Exile', first Irish Nationalist paper in Australia.
• 1850 - First secular high school built at Domain
• 1850 - Constitution Dock officially opened
• 1851 - O'Donoghue sent to a chain-gang, released, restarts his paper and sent again to a chain-gang.

• 1851 - Black Thursday bushfires in February
• 1851 - Influenza epidemic
• 1851 - First election for 16 non-appointed members of Legislative Council
• 1851 - Hobart Chamber of Commerce established
• 1851 - Launceston host for first intercolonial cricket match (Van Diemen's Land v Port Phillip district)
• 1851 - Maria Island's Darlington penitentiary abandoned
• 1852 - Elections for first Hobart and Launceston municipal councils
• 1852 - Payable gold discovered near Fingal
• 1853 - Jubilee festival in Hobart celebrates end of convict transportation after arrival of last ship, the St Vincent
• 1853 - First Tasmanian adhesive postage stamp issued
• 1854 - Severe floods, fires hit city
• 1854 - The Mercury founded as bi-weekly publication
• 1855 - Horse-drawn 'buses' (large carts) begin services, mainly on city-New Town route; they later become enclosed vehicles
• 1855 - Henry Young becomes first vice-regal representative to have title of Governor
• 1856 - Name of Van Diemen's Land officially changed to Tasmania after grant of responsible self-government
• 1856 - New two-house Parliament opens after elections, William Champ becomes colony's first Premier
• 1856 - Norfolk Island transferred from Tasmanian to NSW control
• 1857 - Hobart's municipal Incorporation
• 1857 - Hobart-Launceston telegraph line opens
• 1857 - Hobart customers start using coal gas, streets get gas lighting
• 1858 - First meeting of Hobarts Marine Board, Australia's oldest port authority
• 1858 - Hobart and Launceston councils form municipal polices forces
• 1858 - Council of Education established
• 1858 - Hobart Savings Bank founded
• 1858 - Parliament passes Rural Municipalities Act
• 1859 - Worries about public health prompt Hobart Town Council to appoint health officer
• 1859 - New Government House at Domain occupied for first time, by Governor Henry Young and Lady Young

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1860-1879

• 1860 - British troops sail from Hobart for Māori war in New Zealand
• 1860 - Volunteer corps of infantry, cavalry and artillery formed
• 1860 - Economic depression
• 1860 - The Mercury begins daily publication
• 1862 - Tasmania adopts Torrens title land-conveyancing and registration system
• 1862 - Serious Derwent flooding
• 1862 - Hobart's post office moves to rebuilt courthouse on corner of Macquarie St and Murray St
• 1863 - Opening of Tasmanian Museum on present site
• 1864 - First shipment of trout and salmon ova arrives from England
• 1866 - Hobart Town Hall opened
• 1866 - Hobart Philharmonic Society formed
• 1867 - George Peacock launches one of Australia's first jam factories in Hobart (later operated by Henry Jones and Co under the name IXL)
• 1868 - First royal visit, during which Prince Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) lays foundation stone for St David's Cathedral and turns first sod for Tasmania's first railway, Launceston-Deloraine line, built by a private company.
• 1868 - With Education Act, Tasmania becomes first Australian colony to have compulsory state education system, administered by local school boards
• 1869 - Death of William Lanney ("King Billy"), reputedly the last full blood Tasmanian Aboriginal man; his body is raided and mutilated for scientific study
• 1869 - Submarine communications cable successfully establishes link between Tasmania and Melbourne.
• 1870 - British troops leave
• 1870 - Tasmanian Public Library formally constituted
• 1871 - Opening of Launceston-Deloraine railway, Tasmania's first
• 1871 - James "Philosopher" Smith discovers tin at Mt Bischoff
• 1872 - Direct telegraphic communication begins between Tasmania and England
• 1873 - Work begins on private operated Hobart-Launceston rail link
• 1873 - Government takes over Launceston-Deloraine line
• 1874 - St David's Cathedral consecrated
• 1874 - Tasmanian Racing Club established
• 1874 - Launceston rioters protest against rates levy for Deloraine railway
• 1874 - First book publication of Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, set mainly in Tasmania
• 1875 - Hobart Hospital begins professional training of nurses
• 1875 - Widespread flooding
• 1876 - Truganini, described as last Tasmanian full blooded Aborigine, dies in Hobart
• 1876 - Hobart-Launceston railway opens
• 1877 - Port Arthur penal settlement closed
• 1877 - Gold discovered at Beaconsfield
• 1878 - Mt Heemskirk tin mining begins

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1880-1899

• 1880 - Earthquake hits Hobart
• 1880 - Tasmania gets first telephone with line from city centre to Mt Nelson signal station
• 1880 - Start of Derwent Sailing Boat Club (later Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania)
• 1880 - Gold discovered at Pieman River on West Coast, Tasmania
• 1881 - William Shoobridge organises first trial shipment of apples from Hobart to Britain
• 1881 - Hobart officially replaces 'Hobart Town' as capital's name
• 1882 - Married Women's Property Act allows wives to own property in their own right
• 1882 - Silver-lead discovered at Zeehan
• 1882 - Hobart Stock Exchange opens
• 1883 - Typhoid and diphtheria epidemic prompt public health legislation
• 1883 - Government opens first Hobart and Launceston telephone exchanges
• 1883 - Trades and Labor Council formed
• 1883 - Discovery of gold at "Iron Blow" at Mount Lyell amidst increased West Coast, Tasmania mineral prospecting
• 1885 - Education Department created, centralising control of schools
• 1885 - Mersey and Deloraine Railway opened
• 1885 - Oatlands to Parattah Railway opened
• 1885 - Formation of the Mt Lyell Prospecting Association
• 1886 - Copper found at Mount Lyell
• 1886 - Government takes over Tasmanian Museum and Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
• 1886 - Federal Council of Australasia discusses Federation at its first assembly held in Hobart
• 1886 - Public Health Act creates local boards of health
• 1887 - Derwent Valley railway line to New Norfolk opens, extended to Glenora within a year
• 1887 - Establishment of The Friends School in Hobart by the Society of Friends (Quakers).
• 1887 - Italian entrepreneur Diego Bernacchi floats company to develop Maria Island
• 1888 - Hobart gets first technical school
• 1888 - Reservoir water supply opened
• 1888 - Launceston proclaimed city
• 1890 - University of Tasmania opens at the Domain
• 1890 - Government takes over Hobart-Launceston railway
• 1890 - Legislation provides for payment of Tasmanian parliamentarians
• 1891 - Bank of Van Diemen's Land collapses, economic depression follows
• 1891 - Queen Victoria Museum opens in Launceston
• 1891 - Apsley Railway opened
• 1892 - George FitzGerald founds FitzGeralds department store chain, now owned by Harris Scarfe
• 1893 - Private company begins electric tramway in Hobart, first in an Australian capital city
• 1893 - Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company. formed
• 1893 - Government establishes Tasmanian Tourist Association
• 1894 - Hobart international exhibition opens
• 1894 - Government introduces flat-rate income tax system
• 1895 - Premiers conference in Hobart discusses proposals for federal constitution and plebiscite.
• 1895 - Launceston becomes first southern hemisphere city to get electric light after first Tasmanian hydro-electric station opens at Duck Reach on South Esk River
• 1895 - All Tasmanian districts move to