| 1838 | Jun 28 | Coronation of Queen Victoria |
| 1838 | Mar | WC Yuille's camp at the Black Swamp |
| 1838 | Aug | White settlement of the Ballarat district |
| 1839 | WC Yuille homestead site chosen on Yarrowee | |
| 1851 | Feb 6 | Black Thursday bush fires in Victoria |
| 1851 | Aug | About the beginning of August a Mr Hiscock found gold in a gully near Buninyong. |
| 1851 | Aug 21 | Gold discovery at Poverty Point |
| 1851 | Aug 25 | Golden Point named when gold was discovered in that area. This was the beginning of the great gold discovery that became The Ballarat Diggings. |
| 1851 | Aug | From the end of August till September a number of parties arrived at Golden Point |
| 1851 | Sep 4 | Geelong Advertiser report of gold discovery |
| 1851 | Sep 10 | Messr Esmond and Cavanagh washed out 50 lbs of gold and this was the first gold sent down by escort to Geelong. |
| 1851 | Sep 19 | Police Camp established near Magpie St hill |
| 1851 | Sep 20 | First gold licence issued |
| 1852 | First house built by David Meek, cnr Mair & Lydiard | |
| 1852 | Post Office moved to cnr of Mair & Lydiard Sts | |
| 1852 | Proclamation of Township of Ballaarat | |
| 1852 | Jan 17 | W.S. Urquhart's survey map of Ballarat |
| 1852 | Jul | Police Camp moved to Camp Hill |
| 1852 | Aug 25 | First Township land sale |
| 1853 | Jul 1 | Thomas Bath opened the Ballaarat Hotel (Craig's) |
| 1854 | Christ Church building commenced | |
| 1854 | Apr 5 | Gold claim extent 12ft x 12ft for one man |
| 1854 | May 19 | Post Office opened cnr Mair & Lydiard Sts |
| 1854 | Jul 12 | Bentley's "Eureka Hotel" opened |
| 1854 | Oct 7 | Death of James Scobie |
| 1854 | Oct 17 | Burning of Bentley's Hotel |
| 1854 | Nov 11 | Ballarat Reform League formed |
| 1854 | Nov 29 | Eureka Flag first raised on Bakery Hill |
| 1854 | Nov 18 | Bentley's Trial |
| 1854 | Dec 3 | Eureka Stockade |
| 1855 | Mar 4 | First Wesleyan Church in Lydiard St opened |
| 1855 | Mar 4 | St Paul's first church opened |
| 1855 | Sep 22 | The Star first published |
| 1855 | Nov 10 | P Lalor & JB Humffray elected to parliament |
| 1855 | Dec 8 | Ballarat proclaimed a Municipality |
| 1856 | First Ballarat Council election | |
| 1856 | Gaol building commenced at southern end of Lydiard Street | |
| 1856 | Apr | Temporary Council building completed in Sturt St |
| 1856 | Aug 11 | Hospital opened in Drummond St |
| 1856 | Oct 24 | Streets being metalled in Township |
| 1856 | Dec 3 | First electric telegraph from Melbourne to Ballarat |
| 1857 | Walter Craig bought Bath's Hotel | |
| 1857 | May 5 | Ballaarat East Municipality proclaimed |
| 1857 | Jul 1 | Union Bank opening in Lydiard St |
| 1857 | Sep 13 | Christ Church, Lydiard St opened |
| 1858 | Ballarat Botanical Gardens begun | |
| 1858 | Jan 20 | Wesleyan Chapel in Lydiard St opened |
| 1858 | Jun 9 | Welcome Nugget unearthed |
| 1858 | Jul 17 | Opening of the Gas Company Works |
| 1858 | Aug St | Paul's Church built in Humffray St on Bakery Hill |
| 1858 | Nov 21 | Ballarat's first water pipeline from Yuille's Swamp |
| 1858 | Dec 19 | Post Office building in Sturt St opened |
| 1859 | Apr 12 | Botanical Gardens planting commenced |
| 1859 | Sep 24 | Town Hall burnt down |
| 1860 | Barkly Street Church built | |
| 1860 | Western Fire Brigade Foundation Stone laid | |
| 1860 | Feb 20 | Ballarat Benevolent Asylum opened |
| 1860 | May 20 | First recorded football match at Green's paddock |
| 1860 | Aug 16 | City Hall 1st Foundation Stone laid |
| 1860 | Aug 28 | Brick Police Barracks completed |
| 1860 | Sep 28 | Mechanics Institute Foundation Stone laid |
| 1861 | Nov 20 | Ballarat Rowing Club established |
| 1861 | Burke and Wills perished | |
| 1861 | Feb 1 | First part of City Hall opened |
| 1861 | Oct 1 | Last issue of Ballarat Times |
| 1861 | Dec 26 | Ballarat East Town Hall Foundation Stone laid |
| 1862 | Kirks Reservoir obtained by both Councils | |
| 1862 | Lester's Hotel in Sturt St | |
| 1862 | St Paul's Anglican Church red brick tower built | |
| 1862 | Feb 18 | Ballarat Gaol walls completed |
| 1862 | Apr 11 | First train from Geelong |
| 1862 | Dec 10 | Ebenezer Church Foundation Stone laid |
| 1863 | Christ Church in Lydiard St completed | |
| 1863 | Gate Lodges built at the Gardens | |
| 1863 | Union Hotel in Sturt St built | |
| 1863 | Jul 27 | Report of cutting down of Camp St Logs tree |
| 1863 | Oct 21 | Eastern and Western Municipalities declared Boroughs |
| 1863 | Nov 8 | St Patrick's Cathedral opened |
| 1864 | Ballarat East Fire Station tower erected | |
| 1864 | Apr 4 | St Paul's Church subsided |
| 1864 | May 6 | First Rowing Regatta on Lake Wendouree |
| 1864 | Jul 1 | Ballarat College founded |
| 1864 | Aug 14 | St Andrew's Church opened |
| 1864 | Dec 29 | Post Office building (present)opened |
| 1865 | First steamer placed on Lake Wendouree | |
| 1865 | Jan 11 | Main Road fire destroyed 60 premises |
| 1865 | Feb 11 | Shenandoah Grand Ball at Craig's |
| 1865 | Apr 23 | St Paul's Anglican Church rebuilding in front of the tower opening |
| 1865 | Jun 11 | Opening of St Peter's C of E |
| 1866 | Jul 8 | Ballarat & District Orphan Asylum opened |
| 1867 | Jan 8 | Mining Corner buildings removed |
| 1867 | Jun 10 | First issue of the Courier |
| 1867 | Aug 26 | Burke & Wills monument second Foundation Stone laid |
| 1867 | Nov 4 | Burke & Wills monument completed |
| 1867 | Nov 20 | Alfred Hall completed across Yarrowee |
| 1867 | Dec 9 | First Royal visit, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh |
| 1868 | Clarendon Ladies College founded | |
| 1868 | Court-house south of the gaol opened | |
| 1868 | Rowing course at Lake Wendouree created | |
| 1869 | BBH Prince Alfred Wing Foundation Stone laid | |
| 1870 | Mitchell's Building built in Sturt St | |
| 1870 | Aug 1 | Ballarat Acclimatisation Society formed |
| 1870 | Aug 9 | Withers first edition published |
| 1870 | Sep 9 | Ballaarat proclaimed a City |
| 1870 | Oct 26 | School of Mines opened |
| 1871 | Town Hall tower built | |
| 1871 | Ballarat Town Hall completed | |
| 1872 | State Savings Bank built | |
| 1872 | Jan 8 | Lydiard St Wesleyan Sunday School opened |
| 1872 | Aug 23 | Borough of Ballaarat East proclaimed a Town |
| 1873 | Jun 30 | Sunnyside Woollen Mill commenced production |
| 1875 | Gill's Lake View Hotel built | |
| 1875 | Jun 7 | Academy of Music (Her Majesty's) opened |
| 1875 | Dec 18 | Launch of first commercial PS Wendouree |
| 1876 | Queen's College founded | |
| 1876 | Jul 31 | First football match played on Saxon Paddock |
| 1877 | Gong Gong Reservoir built | |
| 1877 | May 29 | Ballarat Yacht Club formed |
| 1879 | Crown-shaped Rockery built at the Lake | |
| 1880 | Apr 1 | Galloway Monument presented |
| 1881 | Congregational Church built | |
| 1881 | Tunbridge Building in Lydiard St built | |
| 1881 | View Point jetty completed | |
| 1881 | Jun 29 | Royal visit Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence & Prince George, Duke of York (George V) |
| 1883 | Oct 15 | Wendouree Rowing Club formed |
| 1884 | Ballarat Football League formed | |
| 1884 | Gabled extensions to the Fernery built | |
| 1884 | Lydiard St Wesleyan (new) Church opened | |
| 1884 | St Andrew's Kirk spire erected | |
| 1884 | May 24 | Stoddart Statues unveiled |
| 1884 | Jul | Ballarat Fine Art Gallery established |
| 1885 | Post Office tower commenced | |
| 1885 | Jun 16 | Golden City steamer launched on Lake Wendouree |
| 1886 | Bones Building built in Lydiard St | |
| 1886 | May 26 | Death of James Russell Thomson |
| 1886 | Aug 27 | Eureka Monument presented to Town Council |
| 1887 | City Oval grandstand built | |
| 1887 | Withers Revised Edition | |
| 1887 | Apr 21 | Robbie Burn's Statue unveiled |
| 1887 | Jun 21 | Queen Victoria's Jubilee Foundation Stones laid for Mining Exchange, Art Gallery & Old Colonists Hall |
| 1887 | Dec 21 | Horse-drawn trams commenced on Gardens route |
| 1888 | Old Colonists Hall built in Lydiard St | |
| 1888 | Feb 13 | Mining Exchange in Lydiard St opened |
| 1888 | Aug 3 | Thomson Bequest Statues unveiled |
| 1888 | Nov 30 | Anglican Cathedral Foundation Stone laid |
| 1889 | Feb 9 | Death of Peter Lalor |
| 1889 | May 24 | Wallace Statue presented |
| 1889 | Dec 3 | Thomas Moore Statue unveiled |
| 1890 | Claxton Memorial Fountain erected | |
| 1890 | Lake Pavilion constructed | |
| 1890 | May 23 | Victoria Park Arbor Day planting |
| 1890 | Jun 13 | Opening of Fine Art Gallery building |
| 1891 | Mar 9 | Death of J.B. Humffray |
| 1891 | Jul 3 | St Peter's Tower Foundation Stone laid |
| 1891 | Aug 30 | Nazareth House opened |
| 1892 | Marble lions presented to Town Hall by E. Morey & W. Little | |
| 1892 | Jan 14 | Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence & Avondale |
| 1892 | Jun 22 | Disastrous cyclone, loss of life and immense damage |
| 1892 | Dec 31 | 66 Hotels closed by Local Option |
| 1893 | Marble lions in the Gardens were presented | |
| 1893 | Bank Smash | |
| 1893 | Jan 26 | Peter Lalor Statue unveiled |
| 1894 | Ballarat Electric Supply Company founded | |
| 1894 | Morey Gates presented | |
| 1895 | Jan 24 | Electric Light illuminates Ballarat streets |
| 1885 | Feb 10 | First issue of "Echo" |
| 1895 | Apr 11 | Ballarat Golf Club formed |
| 1896 | Shoppee Square in Sturt St proposed | |
| 1897 | Bluestone pillars erected at the Gardens | |
| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee | |
| 1897 | May 10 | Severe earthquake shock |
| 1898 | Apr 11 | Battle of Ballarat at Victoria Park |
| 1898 | Dec 17 | Official trial of Ballarat Melbourne telephone line |
| 1899 | Apr 3 | City Oval officially opened |
| 1899 | Apr 3 | Hebe Statue in Shoppee Square unveiled |
| 1899 | Apr 3 | Her Majesty's Theatre opened |
| 1900 | May 24 | Queen Victoria Statue unveiled |
| 1901 | Queen Alexandra Bandstand built in Sturt St | |
| 1901 | Jan 22 | Death of Queen Victoria |
| 1901 | Jan 31 | Edward VII proclaimed King |
| 1901 | Apr 4 | City Library Foundation Stone laid |
| 1901 | May 9 | Federation - First Federal Parliament, Royal Exhibition Building |
| 1901 | May 13 | Royal visit, Prince George & Princess May (King George V and Queen Mary) |
| 1901 | May 13 | Soldiers Statue Foundation Stone laid |
| 1902 | George Hotel built with 3 storeys | |
| 1902 | Yarrowee paved with basalt | |
| 1902 | May 24 | Queen Victoria drinking fountain presented |
| 1902 | Aug 9 | Coronation of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra formerly Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales who succeeded his mother Queen Victoria |
| 1904 | Aug 23 | Power House Foundation Stone laid |
| 1904 | Dec 3 | 50th Anniversary of Eureka |
| 1905 | National Mutual Building completed | |
| 1905 | Aug 18 | First electric tram |
| 1906 | Nov 1 | Soldiers Statue unveiled |
| 1907 | Jun 14 | Art School transferred to SMB |
| 1908 | Nov 10 | Moorabool Reservoir construction began |
| 1908 | Dec 16 | Water restrictions |
| 1909 | Sep 28 | Coliseum opened |
| 1910 | Aug 27 | Ballarat High School opened |
| 1911 | King Edward VII Pavilion built | |
| 1911 | Feb 17 | Ballarat Church of England Grammar School founded |
| 1911 | Mar 3 | Death of James Oddie aged 87 |
| 1912 | Apr 15 | Titanic sank on maiden voyage from England to New York |
| 1913 | Titanic Bandstand built | |
| 1913 | Apr 14 | Last horse-tram to Sebastopol |
| 1914 | Aug 4 | War declared against Germany |
| 1917 | Ballarat Railway Workshops completed | |
| 1917 | Apr 4 | Back to Ballarat celebrations |
| 1917 | Oct 23 | Exceptionally brilliant meteor |
| 1918 | Nov 11 | Armistice Day, end of WW I |
| 1919 | Jun 9 | Avenue of Honour planting completed |
| 1919 | Aug 27 | Fly Fishers Club founded |
| 1920 | Jun 2 | Royal visit, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales (Duke of Windsor) |
| 1920 | Jun 3 | Arch of Victory opened |
| 1921 | May 25 | Amalgamation 0f Ballarat East and West |
| 1922 | Feb 9 | Death of C.H. Petersen, Fountain in Sturt St |
| 1922 | Dec 6 | Sewerage construction commenced |
| 1923 | Mar 7 | Fire destroyed Sunshine Biscuit Factory |
| 1925 | Jul 1 | Sewerage scheme in operation |
| 1927 | Jan 28 - Feb 4 | Home to Ballarat celebrations |
| 1927 | Apr 29 | Duke & Duchess of York (later King George VI) visited Ballarat |
| 1934 | Jul 1 | State Electricity Commission assumed charge |
| 1934 | Aug 27 | Yuille Cairn unveiled at Lake Wendouree |
| 1934 | Oct 6 | Eureka Tile Factory fire |
| 1934 | Nov 1 | Royal visit, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester |
| 1935 | Oct 31 | BBH Eildon House opened |
| 1936 | Mar 24 | Burning of the Coliseum |
| 1937 | George V Statue erected in Sturt St | |
| 1938 | Centenary of founding of Ballarat Colony of Victoria | |
| 1938 | Mar 8 | Floral Festival began |
| 1938 | Mar 10-12 | Ballarat's first floral carpet displayed |
| 1940 | Prime Ministers Avenue opened | |
| 1945 | Dec 6 | Royal visit, Duke and Duchess of Gloucester |
| 1952 | Frank Pinkerton Bequest Statue unveiled in Sturt St | |
| 1953 | First Begonia Festival held | |
| 1954 | Mar 6 | Royal visit, Queen Elizabeth II & Duke of Edinburgh |
| 1955 | BBH Prince Alfred tower demolished | |
| 1956 | Olympic Games events on Lake Wendouree | |
| 1958 | Oct 18 | Ballarat Yacht Club House officially opened |
| 1958 | Mar 2 | Royal visit, Queen Mother |
| 1965 | Ballarat Gaol closed | |
| 1969 | Horse Statue erected in Sturt St | |
| 1970 | Nov 29 | Sovereign Hill opened |
| 1971 | Ballarat Tramways closed | |
| 1972 | Fly Fishing jetty built | |
| 1980 | Dec 18 | Ornamental lamps erected outside Town Hall |
| 1983 | Apr 15 | Royal visit, Prince Charles & Princess Diana |
| 1989 | Jul 4 | Ballarat Goldfields mine shaft sunk |
| 1989 | Nov 16 | Freak hailstorm, damaged roofs and cars |
| 1990 | New lamps in Lydiard Street | |
| 1991 | First Ballarat Region Conservation Strategy | |
| 1992 | Jan | International Scout Jamboree at Victoria Park |
| 1994 | Mar | Royal visit, HRH Prince Edward |
| 1994 | Local government amalgamation, City of Ballarat | |
| 1995 | William Dunstan VC Memorial erected in Sturt St | |
| 1995 | WW II Memorial erected in Sturt St | |
| 1996 | May | Nerrina Wetlands Project began |
| 1996 | Nov 6 | Refurbishment of Town Hall |
| 1996 | Nov 24 | Community Adventure Playground built at the Lake |
| 1998 | Jan 1 | Merger of SMB, Wimmera TAFE & University of Ballarat |
| 1998 | Mar 27 | Eureka Centre opening |
| 1998 | May 29 | Preview of Panoramas of Ballarat at Craigs Royal Hotel |
| 1998 | May 30 | Launch of Panoramas of Ballaarat at Collins Bookstore, Bridge Mall |
