1824

Hume and Hovell discover Murray River at Albury

1835 

William Wyse drives first cattle to Murray and establishes Mungababreena Station for Charles Ebden, later Colonial Treasurer of Victoria

1836

Paul and Charles Huon establish Wodonga Station, and Robert Brown opens Albury’s first store in a hut near the Hovell tree.

1838

Thomas Townsend makes first town map of Albury. Slab hut police station built near river crossing

1840

First inn in Albury licensed to (Robert Brown)

1846

First industry, a flour mill, open in  Albury

1847

Albury Court of Petty Sessions established

1850

Thomas Mate establishes his first general store in Townsend Street.

1851

German migrants Schubach, Fraunfelder and Rau plant first vine yards in Albury

1852

Gold specs found in Nail Can Hill and several mines open, but discoveries on Ovens goldfields had bigger economic impact on Albury and Wodonga

1853

Custom officer and resident magistrate appointed to Albury

1854 

 Wodonga Township begins with police station.

1855

Capt George Johnstone brings first paddle steamer to Albury form South Australia.

1856

George Mott starts first Albury Wodonga Newspaper, The Border Post.

1857

Albury Agricultural Society established

1858

Electric telegraph connects Melbourne to Wodonga, and then to Albury, which in turn was linked to Sydney the same year

1859

Albury claimed municipality, James fallon elected first mayor.

1860

Albury first permanent courthouse built. Gaol started.

1861

First Union Bridge over the Murray river opens, replacing a punt; first hospital opens in Albury

1868

Sisters of Mercy arrive in Albury and open convent school.

1869 

John Burrows Acquires Hume Flour Mills and establishes business that his family sold to Bunge in 1846.

1873

North Eastern railway completed to Wodonga, then a town of 3000

1875

Present Albury Post Office opens on site of older PO

1876

Wodonga Shire Council establishes as breakaway from Yackandandah

1880

NSW Great Southern railway completed to Albury, then a town of 5700

1882

Albury gas works built in Kiewa Street, Albury, and town gas lit. Sister of Mercy orphanage at Newtown in Thurgoona opens.

1883 

Railway Systems of NSW and Victoria linked by Murray River Bridge.

1884

Albury Iron Foundry established

1886

Albury Steam Powered Water Work established

1888

James Higgins opens Albury Coach Factory (Now Elm Court Motel.) Albury municipal sale yards opens, mostly for sheep.

1890

Number of Albury houses first exceeds 1000. Albury and Thurgoona wine industry reaches peak. With 16 commercial vineyards in locality.

1891

Albury large-scale wool sales begin, leading to large wool and bulk stores being built in the town later. Wodonga Tallangatta Railway built.

1898

 Frew and Logan Start timber business that dominated the local building market for half a century. Albury telephone exchange opens. Second Union Bridge opens.

1899

Albury Technical School begins classes.

1903

Border Morning Mail established by Mott family

1906

Mylon Motorways starts as a two way horse bus service in Wodonga

1906

Hume Shire Council proclaimed

1907

Town hall (now Albury Regional Art Gallery) built.

1912

Betro Abicaire, a Lebanese migrant, opens big store in Dean Street

1913

 Wodonga switches to electric street lighting

1916

Albury municipal electricity undertaking established.

1918

Albury District Hospital opens in Wodonga Place.

1919

Construction of Hume dam begun. Albury sewerage scheme begins.

1920

Albury high school established ( new school building opens in 1972) Albury and Wodonga combined population exceeds 10,000

1924

 Amalgamated Textiles, now Macquarie Textiles, opens in East Albury, the first large-scale industry employing women. Wodonga water tower built.

1925

Colonial mutual office block and tower built in Dean Street, Albury.

1926 

State Electricity Commission of Victoria starts supplying power to Albury and Wodonga.

1927

Defence Department resumes land at Thurgoona for ammunition depot, Regent Theatre, now Albury cinema centres, opens.

1928

Forest Hill Garden suburb commences.

1929

Farmers and graziers build smollet street wool store, Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm recommend Albury council to build airport at present site.

1930

First radio station, 2AY, start broadcast, followed by 2CO in 1931.

1931

Jock and Annie Haberfield establish Harberfields Dairy in South Albury.

1932 

Martins bus service begins in Albury.

1935

Albury Wool Exchange opens in new Commercial Clubs buildings. Wodonga municipal saleyard open.

1936

Hume Dam completed.

1937

World famous steam train, The Sprit of Progress, begins Albury – Melbourne Run

1938

Aerodrome built on present site. Wodonga Higher Intermediate School. (Late Wodonga high School) opens.

1939

Albury’s first high rise hotel, the New Albury, completed.

1940

Wodonga- Albury selected for army depot schools and stores.

1945

Albury Council helps start the Murray Valley Development League.

1946

Albury, approaching 15,000 population, proclaimed a city. Mate’s store sold to Burns Phillip.

1947

Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre opens, receiving 320,000 migrants up to 1971. First housing commission’s homes completed in Albury.

1949

Riverina Daylight Express trains link Albury and Sydney. Rocla opens pipe plant in Wodonga to supply Kiewa Hydro Electric Scheme.

1950

Upper Murray Regional Library established as first major cross boarder local government initiative.

1953

Raeme Training Centre relocated to Bandiana from Ingleburn.

1954 

Wodonga District Hospital opens. Bradford Kendall foundry in Wodonga established.

1955

Road haulage on Hume Highway boosted after start tax on trucks abolished,

1956

Passenger train times between Sydney and Melbourne ( changing in Albury), reduced to 13 hours

1957

Cardinal Gilroy opens Mercy Hospital in Poole Street. Hume Power station added to Hume dam.

1958

Lamson (Later Moore) Paragon opens first factory in Wodonga. NSW municipalities form Murray River County Council.

1960

SS and A club moves from Dean Street to new clubrooms in Olive Street. New Wodonga Water Works opens at Huon’s Hill. Wodonga Sewerage scheme commenced. RAAOC School transferred to Bandiana form Broadmeadows.

1961

Third Union Bridge opens

1962

Completion of standard rail gauge from Wodonga to Melbourne allows first inter-capital through trains. Lavington and Thurgoona absorbed into city of Albury. Weatherall Masonry starts operations,

1963

Albury Regional Promotion Council begins work

1964

Albury Airport reconstructed and enlarged to facilitate regular flights to Melbourne and Sydney. Albury Civic Theatre opens. Milos opens its first cool storage in store in Wodonga. Televisions broadcast in Albury Wodonga commence on AMV4 and ABC.

1965

Albury Wodonga complex committee  promotes cross boarder growth

1966

Albury and Wodonga combined population reaches 36.000

1967

Uncle Ben’s of Australia begins pet food production in Wodonga. Donga meats abattoir opens in Wodonga. Victoria identifies “Wodonga- Albury” for Accelerated development.

1970

First Target store in region opens in Albury. Wodonga Civic Centre opens. Borg Warner (later BTR) establishes at Lavington.

1972

Riverina of College of advanced education opens study centre in Albury the precursor of Charles Sturt University. Albury Grammar School for boy and Woodstock girls school Amalgamate as the Scots school. Southern Boarder Bakeries open Wodonga bakery, later Sunicrust.

1973

Whitlam government and NSW and Victoria agree to establish the first national growth centre at Albury Wodonga. Wodonga proclaimed a rural city. Gadsens (Later southcorp) begins can production in Wodonga. H.D Lee (later Yakka) begins production in Wodonga.

1974

Albury Wodonga Development Corporation (AWDC) starts with Aim of 300,000 regional population by 2000. Sanyo open television factory in Wodonga. Albury Wodonga Continuing Education centre opens.

1976

 Willow Park, first AWDC housing estate, is released. AWDC moves to new head quarters in Mckoy St, now apart of the Wodonga institute of TAFE.

1977

Natural gas is delivered to Albury Wodonga. Clyde Cameron Trades Union College opens.

1978

Thurgoona first housing estate developed, new sale yards at Bandiana opens, Wodonga stadium now leisure centre opens.

1979

Albury Wodonga Private Hospital opens. Centre Point and Lavington Square Shopping centres open. Wodonga Council sells old saleyard site to Myer. Murray River Performing Group and Flying Fruit Fly Circus begins.

1980

Peter Til environmental laboratory (Murray darling freshwater research centre form 1986) opens at Thurgoona. Target Wodonga Built.

1981

Myer Albury and Myer Shopping centre open. Wilson Transformer Co starts production in Wodonga and Australian Newsprint’s Mills (Now Fletcher challenges) at Ettamogah.

1982

Army transfers its apprentice school to Latchford barracks form Balcombe. Shorko Australia establishes Wodonga factory. XPT trains start between Albury and Sydney ( 7hours and 20 Min)

1983

New airport terminal and tower opened. Westend Plaza including K- Mart opened. Albury Sport Stadium opens.

1985

Wodonga bypass opens

1986

Tourism projects for Gateway Island begin with sale of former milk depot to Wodonga council. Kimberley Clarke and Geofabrics establish in Albury. Albury selected for taxation office branch with 600 staff. Cumberoona launched as tourist vessel.

1987

A new Court House in Olive Street is completed. Wodonga TAFE institutes opens. Ettamogah Pub opens.

1988

Wodonga Institute of Tertiary Institute opens.

1989

Minister agrees to wind back AWDC activity and return planning powers to local government. Charles Sturt University is established, Bandiana logistic group raised by merging army units. New defence housing authority embarks on $50 million purchase and rebuild program in Albury Wodonga over five years.

1990

AWDC and Albury Council agree to develop Norris Park jointly.

1991

La Trobe University Wodonga incorporates Wodonga Institute of Tertiary Education. ACI Petalite Recycling Factory opens in Wodonga. Albury and Wodonga combined population surpasses 70,000

1992

Overall Forge relocate form Sydney to Ettamogah. Albury Wodonga Festival of Sport begins. Development Albury Wodonga is inaugurated

1993

Macquarie Textiles complete $60 million expansion. Inter-capital XPT trains reduce Sydney- Melbourne Travelling time form 13 hours to 10 hours.

1994

Municipal reform enlarges Wodonga city area to 430 sq KM, with number of houses in new municipality exceeding 10,000. New Albury Base Hospital and new Albury Police Headquarters open.

1995

Charles Sturt University buys land for Thurgoona campus (Riverina TAFE later buys adjoining site). Army Logistic Training Centre established by merging units. Brambles opens first recall storage depot at Baranduda