Timeline Albury
25,000 to 40,000 years ago: Aboriginal settlement begins
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-
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
Further Information is available at AlburyCity LibraryMuseum in Kiewa Street.
There is also a downloadable timeline for students and researchers on the downloads page>
