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55 relations: Aboriginal Australians, Australia, Bass Strait, Batman's Hill, Batman's Treaty, Charles Grimes (surveyor), Charles Robbins (Royal Navy officer), Collingwood, Victoria, Corio Bay, Dights Falls, Division of Batman, Division of Fawkner, East India Company, Edward Henty, Enterprize (1829), Fawkner, Victoria, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Geelong, George Bass, Governor of New South Wales, HMS Cumberland (1803), HMS Lady Nelson (1798), Hume and Hovell expedition, Indented Head, Victoria, James Grant (navigator), John Batman, John Murray (Australian explorer), John Pascoe Fawkner, Keilor, Victoria, Maribyrnong River, Matthew Flinders, Melbourne, Melbourne Advertiser, Pascoe Vale, Victoria, Port Phillip, Port Phillip Association, Port Phillip District, Portland Bay, Richard Bourke, Schooner Rebecca, Sorrento, Victoria, Sullivan Bay, Victoria, Sydney, Tanderrum, Tasmania, The Illustrated Australian News, Themeda triandra, Van Diemen's Land, Victorian Legislative Council, Western Port, ..., William Buckley (convict), William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, William Street, Melbourne, Wurundjeri, Yarra River. Expand index (5 more) »
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are legally defined as people who are members "of the Aboriginal race of Australia" (indigenous to mainland Australia or to the island of Tasmania).
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Bass Strait
Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria.
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Batman's Hill
Batman's Hill in Melbourne, Australia was named for the Vandemonian adventurer and grazier John Batman.
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Batman's Treaty
Batman's Treaty was an agreement between John Batman, an Australian grazier, businessman and explorer, and a group of Wurundjeri elders, for the purchase of land around Port Phillip, near the present site of Melbourne.
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Charles Grimes (surveyor)
Charles Grimes (24 February 1772 – 19 February 1858) was an English surveyor who did some valuable work in colonial Australia.
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Charles Robbins (Royal Navy officer)
Charles Robbins (1782-1805) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century.
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Collingwood, Victoria
Collingwood is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, 3 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Corio Bay
Corio Bay is one of numerous bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong.
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Dights Falls
Dights Falls is a rapids and weir on the Yarra River Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek.
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Division of Batman
The Division of Batman is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.
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Division of Fawkner
The Division of Fawkner was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.
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Edward Henty
Edward Henty (28 March 1810 – 14 August 1878), Bassett, Marnie, '', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 531-534, Retrieved 2009-09-27 was a pioneer and first permanent settler in the Port Phillip district (later Victoria), Australia.
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Enterprize (1829)
The topsail schooner, Enterprize, was built in Hobart, Tasmania in 1830 by William Pender.
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Fawkner, Victoria
Fawkner is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12 km north of Melbourne's central business district.
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Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Flinders Lane is a minor street and thoroughfare in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia.
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Geelong
Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia.Geelong is south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.
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George Bass
George Bass (30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia.
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Governor of New South Wales
The Governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, in the state of New South Wales.
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HMS Cumberland (1803)
HMS Cumberland was a schooner built in Port Jackson, Australia, in 1801.
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HMS Lady Nelson (1798)
His Majestys Armed Survey Vessel Lady Nelson was commissioned in 1799 to survey the coast of Australia.
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Hume and Hovell expedition
The Hume and Hovell expedition was one of the most important journeys of explorations undertaken in eastern Australia.
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Indented Head, Victoria
Indented Head is a small coastal township located on the Bellarine Peninsula, east of Geelong, in the Australian state of Victoria.
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James Grant (navigator)
James Grant (1772 – 11 November 1833) was a British Royal Navy officer and navigator in the early nineteenth century.
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John Batman
John Batman (21 January 18016 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer.
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John Murray (Australian explorer)
John Murray (c.1775–c.1807) was a seaman and explorer of Australia.
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John Pascoe Fawkner
John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia.
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Keilor, Victoria
Keilor is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18 km north-west of Melbourne's central business district.
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Maribyrnong River
The Maribyrnong River is a perennial river of the Port Phillip catchment, located in the northwestern suburbs of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria.
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Matthew Flinders
Captain Matthew Flinders (16 March 1774 – 19 July 1814) was an English navigator and cartographer, who was the leader of the first circumnavigation of Australia and identified it as a continent.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Melbourne Advertiser
The Melbourne Advertiser was the first newspaper published in Melbourne, in what was then known as Port Phillip District, and now is Victoria, Australia.
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Pascoe Vale, Victoria
Pascoe Vale is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km north of Melbourne's Central Business District.
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Port Phillip
Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay), is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne.
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Port Phillip Association
The Port Phillip Association (originally the "Geelong and Dutigalla Association") was formally formed in June 1835 to settle land in what would become Melbourne, which the association believed had been acquired by John Batman for the association from Wurundjeri elders after he had obtained their marks to a document, which came to be known as Batman's Treaty.
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Port Phillip District
The Port Phillip District was a historical administrative division of the Colony of New South Wales, which existed from September 1836 until 1 July 1851, when it was separated from New South Wales and became the Colony of Victoria.
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Portland Bay
Portland Bay is a small bay off the coast of Victoria, Australia.
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Richard Bourke
General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB (4 May 1777 – 12 August 1855) was an Irish-born British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1831 to 1837.
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Schooner Rebecca
The 30-ton sloop Rebecca was launched in 1834,Memorial to the Rebecca, Rosevears, Tasmania, 1954.
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Sorrento, Victoria
Sorrento is a coastal township in Victoria, Australia, located on the shores of Port Phillip on the Mornington Peninsula, about one and a half hours by car south of Melbourne.
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Sullivan Bay, Victoria
Sullivan Bay lies 60 km due south of Melbourne on Port Phillip, one kilometre east of Sorrento, Victoria.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Tanderrum
A tanderrum is a ceremony enacted by the nations of the Kulin people and other Victorian aboriginal nations allowing safe passage and temporary access and use of land and resources by foreign people.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.
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The Illustrated Australian News
The Illustrated Australian News is a former monthly news magazine of record in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Themeda triandra
Themeda triandra is a perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
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Van Diemen's Land
Van Diemen's Land was the original name used by most Europeans for the island of Tasmania, now part of Australia.
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Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly.
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Western Port
Western Port, commonly but unofficially known as Western Port Bay, is a large tidal bay in southern Victoria, Australia, opening into Bass Strait.
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William Buckley (convict)
William Buckley (178030 January 1856) was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead and lived in an Aboriginal community for many years.
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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841).
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William Street, Melbourne
William Street is a major street in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Wurundjeri
The Wurundjeri are a people of the Indigenous Australian nation of the Wurundjeri language group, in the Kulin alliance.
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Yarra River
The Yarra River or historically, the Yarra Yarra River, (Aboriginal: Berrern, Birr-arrung, Bay-ray-rung, Birarang, Birrarung, and Wongete) is a perennial river in east-central Victoria, Australia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_of_Melbourne
