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Captain Arthur Phillip founded the first settlement at Sydney Cove.

Captain Tench and Lieut. Dawes tried unsuccessfully to cross the Blue Mountains.

Bass, using grappling irons and rope ladders, failed to cross the Mountains.

Caley reached and named Mount Banks or Mount King George.

Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson crossed the Mountains and reached Mount Blaxland.

Evans surveyed the road over the Mountains to Bathurst.

Mr J. Grant, first settler in the Hartley Valley.

James Walker settled in Wallerawang.

Andrew Brown settled at Cooerwull, adjacent to Lithgow Valley.

Mithchell's Mount Victoria Pass opened.

Andrew Brown established his flour mill.

Andrew Brown makes reference to cutting coal.

Rev. C. Stewart arrived in the District and soon afterwards took up land in the Valley and called it the Hermitage.

Thomas Brown purchased land in Lithgow Valley and named it Eskbank.

Thomas Sheedy settled on land now known as Sheedy's Gully.

Andrew Brown introduced steam power to augment water power at his flour mill.

Andrew Brown converted his flour mill into a woollen mill.

Track for the Railway was surveyed over the mountains.

Railway to Lithgow via the ZigZag completed. Lithgow's coal output was 1,270 tons.

Mort's meatworks built.