1824

Hume & Hovell’s party arrives at Murray River and marks trees

1836

First white settler, Robert Brown, an Irishman, opens a store

1838

Albury mapped by Thomas Townsend

1840

Brown’s Hume Inn opened in Wodonga Place

1850

Albury Public School starts at Dean and Kiewa Street

1855

Paddlesteamer Albury arrives from South Australia

1856

First bank (Bank of NSW) and newspaper (Border Post) established

1859

Albury municipality proclaimed, first town council

1861

Union Bridge replaces punt ferry over the Murray River

1873

North Eastern Railway reaches Wodonga

1880

Albury linked to Sydney by rail (extended to Wodonga 1883)

1886

Waterworks provides first piped water

1916

Municipal electricity undertaking established

1924

Amalgamated Textiles (Later Macquarie Textiles) starts operations

1927

Regent Theatre opened

1930

Radio 2AY begins broadcasts (followed by 2CO in 1931)                                   

1934

KLM’s DC 2 ‘Uiver’ makes emergency landing at Albury Racecourse

1938

Aerodrome built east of Newmarket

1946

Albury achieves City status

1963

Albury tennis star Margaret Smith wins first Wimbledon title

1970

Borg Warner gearbox factory opened

1973

Albury-Wodonga declared a National Growth Centre

1979

Flying Fruit Fly Circus starts

1981

Regional Art Gallery opened

1989

Charles Sturt University established

1994

New Base Hospital and new Police station opened

2004

Hume Shire dissolved, Albury city extended to include parts of Hume Shire

2007

Hume Freeway and Harold Mair Bridge opened. LibraryMuseum opened

2008

Former Albury resident Lee Kernaghan named Australian of the Year