Melbourne was settled by Europeans in the 1830s, when groups of colonists from Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, arrived on the Yarra River in the territory of the Wurundjeri and other peoples of the Kulin nation. John Batman claimed to have made a treaty with Aboriginal elders to buy the land, but the colonial authorities did not recognise it, and the settlement was formally founded under the government of New South Wales and named after the British prime minister, Lord Melbourne. The Victorian gold rush of the 1850s brought rapid growth and wealth. Melbourne served as the capital of Australia from federation in 1901 until the move to Canberra in 1927 and remains a major centre of finance, sport and culture.
Before and after
- 1835Publication of Kalevala
- 1835Coriolis force
- 2 June 1835Birth of Pius X
- 27 July 1835Birth of Giosuè Carducci
- 30 August 1835Founding of Melbourne
- from 20 September 1835 to 1 March 1845Farroupilha Revolution
- 2 October 1835Battle of Gonzales
- from 2 October 1835 to 21 April 1836Texas Revolution
- 22 October 1835Launch of Agence France-Presse
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The era
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