19th Century
- 1802 - Lady Nelson enters Corio Bay
- 1803 - Escaped convict William Buckley living in area.
- 1835 - John Batman establishes base camp at Indented Head
- 1838 - Geelong township surveyed, Geelong population is 545.
- 1839 - First sale of Geelong town allotments
- 1839 - First postal mail between Geelong and Melbourne
- 1840 - First issue of the Geelong Advertiser newspaper is published
- 1845 - Geelong Keys discovered at Corio Bay
- 1849 - The Geelong town council is incorporated.
- 1850 - Geelong is the fifth largest town in Victoria.
- 1851 - Gold is found in the Mount Bunninyong district
- 1851 - Geelong population is 8,000
- 1853 - Geelong population is 22,000
- 1857 - Australia's first country railway from Geelong to Melbourne is built
- 1859 - Thomas Austin releases 24 rabbits into the wild on his property 'Barwon Park' at Winchelsea just outside of Geelong on Christmas Day, introducing the rabbit to Australia.
- 1862 - Geelong to Ballarat railway opens
- 1888 - First telephone exchange in Geelong opens
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