Timelines...

DATE	WESTERN AUSTRALIA	AUSTRALIA	THE WORLD
1880	Sir William Robinson appointed Governor of Western Australia (1880-1883) Cobb & Co’s coach services carrying mail introduced Perth made mayoralty with George Shenton elected its first mayor	First edition of the Bulletin printed. Ned Kelly captured and hanged.
1881	railway line from Fremantle to Perth to Guildford opened (reaching York in 1885)
1883	F. N. Broome appointed Governor of Western Australia (1883-1889)
1884	Population reached 33,000
1885	Kimberley goldfields discovered by Charles Hall & Jack Slattery in August The West Australian morning daily newspaper succeeds Perth Gazette (produced only 3 times per week)	Heidelberg School of painting founded. BHP founded
1886	With less than 50 men imprisoned in Western Australia under convict system, British government negotiated to hand Fremantle Prison and the Asylum over to colonial authorities on 31 March.
1887	last man hanged at Perth Gaol – W. Conroy first Perth Cup horse race Perth & Fremantle connected by telephone	Henry Lawson published first poems. Nellie Melba sang overseas for the first time.
1888	gallows (execution chamber) built at Fremantle Prison – from this time on it became colony’s (& later State’s) only legal place of execution Goldfields discovered at Yilgarn, east of Perth & in north west Pilbara region marking the beginning of the Western Australian Gold Rush.
1889
1890	Representative government granted in Western Australia State Constitution given Royal ascent on 15 August first elected Government of Western Australia (no universal suffrage, electors drawn mainly from business & land owners) John Forrest first Premier of State (1890-1901
1891	WA population - 49 782 (excluding aboriginal people)
1892		First Sheffield Shield competition
1894	Rabbits had spread into WA	South Australian women given the vote.	In France Louis Lumiere invents cinematograph (combined camera, printer & projector) for producing & showing moving film
1896		First modern Olympics Games
1897	A number of major notable civic openings in Fremantle: Fremantle Hospital Fremantle Harbour Fremantle Markets
1898	Royal Commission into the penal system of the colony .
1899			Boer War between Britain and the Boers of southern Africa First electro magnetic recording of sound made