Timelines...

DATE	WESTERN AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	THE WORLD
1850	Captain Edmund. Y. W. Henderson (Royal Engineers),appointed first Comptroller-General of Convicts in WA arrived off Fremantle with first shipment of 75 transportees aboard the chartered Indiaman Scindian on 1 June		First crude oil well drilled in U.S.A. to produce commercial quantities
1851	Western Australian colonial Police Force established Lt. Henry Wray (Royal Engineers) arrived commanding 20th Company of Royal Engineers to work closely with Edmund Henderson	Gold discovered in NSW and Victoria
1852	95 sappers and miners, 20 Field Company, Royal Engineers arrived to help with construction of Convict Establishment & other building projects in colony		Growing involvement of European powers in the African continent
1853	Royal Engineers recalled to England on standby for the Crimean War		Crimean War (1853-56);
1854		Eureka Stockade
1855	Capt A. E. Kennedy appointed Governor of Western Australia (1855-1862) Perth Gaol built & opened (1855-56)
1856	Right Reverend Mathew Blagden Hale appointed first Church of England Bishop of Western Australia Perth given title of City	Responsible government granted in NSW, Victoria and Van Diemen's land (Tasmania)
1857		Responsible government granted in South Australia	Irish Republican Brotherhood, otherwise known as Fenians, founded
1858	first secondary education college founded in Western Australia by Bishop Hale	Population of Australia reaches 1 million. (excluding Aborigines) First Australian Rules football club established in Melbourne.
1859	Convict Establishment project at Fremantle officially completed on 31 December WA population 11, 743 (excluding Aboriginal people)	Queensland proclaimed a separate colony 12 rabbits introduced near Geelong, Victoria.
1860		Burke and Wills perished in expedition to Gulf of Carpentaria. Responsible government granted in Queensland
1861	Asylum at Fremantle (now the Fremantle Arts Centre) built by convict labour (completed 1864)		American Civil War (1861-1865)
1862	Dr John Stephen Hampton appointed Governor of Western Australia (1862-1868)	First Melbourne Cup race
1866	name Convict Establishment was replaced by that of Colonial Convict Establishment
1867	Government Gazette of 22nd January announced that Imperial Convict Establishment was renamed Fremantle Prison
1868	transportation of convicts from UK to Western Australia (& to Australia) officially ended last ship carrying 280 convicts was Hougoumont, which arrived on 9 January estimated that around 9500 transported convicts stepped onto Western Australian soil alive	Aboriginal cricket team tour to England
1869	Sir Frederick Weld appointed Governor of Western Australia (1869-1875) colony’s population reaches 23,000 representative government introduced with Legislative Council containing 18 members with a Speaker (3 members were colony’s chief executive, 3 were nominated by Governor & 12 were elected by property owners)		Suez Canal completed
1871	first railway lines built in colony, near Busselton municipal councils & road boards elected in most districts attendance at school made compulsory for all between ages of 6 & 14 Central Board of Education established
1872		A telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin connects with a submarine cable to Java and the rest of the world.
1875	Sir William Robinson appointed Governor of Western Australia (1875-1877)
1876	Colonial Convict Department disbanded 6 Irish political prisoners (known as the Fenians) sent to Western Australia as convicts escaped from custody in Rockingham, & with well organised outside assistance managed to evade recapture, sailing in an American whaling boat to Boston, USA		Alexander Bell invents telephone
1877	Sir Harry Ord appointed Governor of Western Australia (1877-1880) Perth connected to Adelaide & London by electric telegraph	First Test Match between England and Australia. Population of Australia reaches 2 million (excluding Aborigines)	T. A. Edison invents phonograph in U.S.A. Refrigeration used to freeze meat for export
1879	expedition into Kimberley region led by Alexander Forrest leads to its opening up as pastoral district first government railway line opened connecting port of Geraldton with mining district of Northampton colony celebrates its Jubilee (50 years since its founding)