Early attempts to establish a Native Police Corps under the command of Christiaan de Villiers.

Aboriginal Protectorate established by the British Government in London.

De Villiers's Native Police force disbanded. Five Aboriginal constables recruited by the Protectorate to assist in 'controlling' the Aboriginal people they were to administer.

Port Phillip District population estimated at 100,000.

28 December
Newspaper reports that a white woman is being held captive by Aboriginal people in Gippsland. Rumours of sightings continue until 1846, at which time the Native Police are deployed to search for her, unsuccessfully.

Map of the Westernport District produced for the purposes of the Aboriginal Protectorate by Assistant Protector William Thomas.

January
20 troopers commanded by Henry EP Dana enrolled in the new Native Police Corps.
August
Native Police search for missing woman and two children. They find them wandering in bush near Nerre Nerre Warren.

Two Aboriginal men are the first people hanged in Melbourne.

Two Native Police troopers escort Chief Protector George Augustus Robinson on a seven-month journey in the east of Port Phillip District.

The first overland delivery of mail to Alberton in Gippsland, carried by Native Police. The service expands to include Cape Otway and the Goulburn Valley.

The Native Police search for a shipwreck between Point Nepean and Wilson's Promontory.

The Native Police deployed to patrol the new gold finds.

Native Police assigned to act as guards at Pentridge.

During the early 1850s, colonial artist William Strutt records the Native Police Corps in a series of drawings.

CJ Latrobe sworn in as Superintendent of Port Phillip District.

13 January
Colony of Victoria comes into existence.

6 February
Black Thursday bushfires burn from the vicinity of Melbourne to the South Australian border.

June
Gold discovered at Clunes near Ballarat.
Gold discovered at Forest Creek.

Forest Creek surveyed and renamed Castlemaine.

Princes Bridge over the Yarra opened.


November
Henry EP Dana dies.
Native Police Corps disbanded.

Chinese population of Victorian goldfields reaches 2000.

3 December
Soldiers and police attack the Eureka Stockade.

Population of Victoria reaches 347,305.

July
Introduction of responsible government in the Colony of Victoria.

Aboriginal police trackers recruited from Northern Queensland during hunt for Ned Kelly in north-east Victoria.