| 1836 | The explorer Major Thomas Mitchell passes through the region. |
| 1851 | Mrs John Kennedy and Mrs Patrick Farrell find gold at ‘The Rocks’, now) Golden Square. |
| 1853 | Red Ribbon agitation of the miners against the amount of the License fee. |
| 1854 | Township survey and first Sandhurst land sales. First crushing battery set up. |
| 1857 | Connection by telegraph to Melbourne. |
| 1858 | Joseph Brady designs eight reservoirs along the Bendigo Valley for the Bendigo Waterworks Co. |
| 1859 | George Avery Fletcher designs Town Hall. |
| 1860 | Bendigonians travel to Barnadown to farewell Burke and Wills Expedition. |
| 1862 | Melbourne to Sandhurst Railway opened. |
| 1871 | Sandhurst proclaimed a City. First Bendigo Easter Fair. |
| 1877 | Coliban River water finally comes to Bendigo. |
| 1881 | Alexandra Fountain opened by the Princes Albert and George. |
| 1887 | Bendigo Art Gallery established. A destructive fire in the Chinese Camp. |
| 1890 | First trams commence operation. |
| 1891 | Name changed from Sandhurst back to Bendigo after a poll by ratepayers. |
| 1896 | Law Courts in Pall Mall opened. Sacred Heart Cathedral construction begins. |
| 1904 | Mechanics’ Institute and School of Mines amalgamated. |
| 1910 | Scheme for the sewering of the central portion of city proposed. |
| 1917 | Gold yield and dividend the lowest in Bendigo’s history. |
| 1926 | Teachers’ Training College opened. |
| 1931 | Lookout Tower in Rosalind Park opened. |
| 1936 | Mining at Golden Gully, scene of the first gold rush in Bendigo, ceases. |
| 1941 | Announcement of Ordnance Factory to be built in Bendigo. |
| 1949 | Bendigo’s first municipal library established. |
| 1950 | The Northern District School of Nursing, the first of its kind, opens in Bendigo. |
| 1954 | Announcement: “not one mine working”. |
| 1964 | Eppalock Dam opened. |
| 1969 | New dragon bought by the Loong 100 committee. |
| 1970 | Flora Hill campus of the Bendigo Institute of Technology opens. |
| 1971 | Central Deborah Gold Mine opened to the general public. |
| 1972 | Public tramway system closes. Talking Tram tours commence in December. |
| 1977 | Sacred Heart Cathedral completed. |
| 1981 | Shamrock Hotel re-opened. |
| 1984 | Bendigo Library complex opened. |
| 1987 | Killian’s Walk arcade destroyed by fire. |
| 1991 | Capital Theatre re-opened after restoration.
Golden Dragon Museum opens. |
| 1994 | City of Greater Bendigo formed by amalgamation with surrounding councils. |
| 1997 | Bendigo Mining NL announces 12 million ounce gold resource potential beneath central Bendigo. |
| 2001 | Sesquicentenary celebration of discovery of gold and establishment of Bendigo. |
| 2003 | Bendigo Hospital and Bendigo Advertiser celebrate 150 years in the community. |
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