| 1838 The Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, a forerunner of the National Australia Bank, opens an agency in Melbourne. |
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| 1841 Charles Joseph La Trobe makes a thirteen-day inspecting trip on horseback to Portland. |
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| 1845 Charles Joseph La Trobe makes a fifteen-day inspecting trip on horseback to Port Fairy, Portland and Warrnambool. |
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| 1849 The bluestone lighthouse at Williamstown’s Point Gellibrand, built with convict labour, is lit with four lights. It replaces an earlier timber tower built nine years earlier. |
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| 1850 Charles Joseph La Trobe lays the foundation stone of the Geelong Infirmary and Benevolent Asylum, later known as the Geelong Hospital. |
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| 1853 A rare crystalline gold nugget of 23 ounces (717 grams) is discovered at Mt Ivor, near present-day Heathcote, and is purchased by La Trobe – it’s now in the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| 1854 Charles Joseph La Trobe approves the creation of Royal and Princes Parks from a large tract of land previously reserved for recreation purposes (4 square miles, 1,000 hectares, had been set aside in 1845). |
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| 1854 Charles Joseph La Trobe retires as Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria; the population is 237,000 (compared with 6,000 when he arrived in 1839). |
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