19th Century
30,000 years of human habitation on the Cumberland Plain.
1788 – European settlement.
1808 – Maria Lock born near Richmond. She died in 1878.
1810 – Coallee (Werrington South campus) granted to Mary Putland Bligh O’Connell.
1810 – Foundation of first school in Western Sydney – Ebenezer, in the Hawkesbury.
1813 – Foundation stone of the Female Orphan School, Parramatta laid, which opened in 1818.
1814 – Foundation of the Native Institution at Parramatta.
1817 – John Oxley’s ‘Out line map of the settlement in New South Wales’ published.
1833 – Sydney Mechanics School of the Arts established.
1840 – Earliest estimated date for construction of Frogmore House. The actual date is contested and may be in the 1860s.
1850 – Male and Female Orphanages merged. The first male students arrive.
1852 – University of Sydney commences classes.
1873 – Windeyer Royal Commission promotes de-institutionalisation e.g. ‘boarding out’ as ways of raising orphaned children.
1878 – Sydney Technical College established by the Sydney Mechanics School of the Arts.
1891 – Hawkesbury Agricultural College (HAC) founded in ‘Toxana’, Richmond.
1893 – Vernon group of buildings begin to be built on Parramatta South campus.
1894 – Principal’s residence (‘Yarramundi House’) opened at HAC.
1895 – Stable Square, HAC, opened. ‘Quadrangle’ buildings commenced.
1896 – First student residences opened at HAC.
1898 – HAC Old Boys Union formed.
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