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| Opening of Melbourne’s first general public hospital, the Melbourne Hospital.
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| A group of ladies raises the need for a lying-in hospital with the Anglican Dean of Melbourne (Dr Hussey Burgh Macartney).
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| The ladies’ committee joins forces with two young doctors, Dr John Maund and Dr Richard Tracy, who had independently seen the need for establishment of a lying-in hospital.
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| A meeting is held to inspect premises leased by Drs Maund and Tracy at No. 41 Albert Street, East Melbourne. A Committee of Management is formed and Mrs Fanny Perry, wife of the Anglican Bishop of Melbourne, is elected as President.
| Hospital named: Melbourne Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children
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| First (two) midwifery patients admitted to Australia’s first public women’s hospital (Melbourne’s second public hospital).
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| First live child born; a boy. Born to Mrs Oldfield, an Englishwoman.
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| A public meeting approves establishment of the Melbourne Lying-in Hospital. The appointment of the Committee of Management and honoraries is confirmed.
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| The government grants two acres of land in Madeline Street, North Melbourne (later known as Swanston St, Carlton) as a permanent hospital site.
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| Dr. John Maund and Dr. Richard Tracy appointed Honorary Physicians for life “in acknowledgement of the strenuous and praiseworthy efforts made by them in promoting the formation of this Institution”.
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| Dr John Maund publishes an analysis of the first hundred confinements at the hospital in the Australian Medical Journal.
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| Death of Dr John Maund, aged 35. After his death the hospital committee sets aside a sum of money for a portrait in oils by Nicholas Chevalier and a memorial tablet.
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| The new hospital officially opened by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Barkly.
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| The first resident surgeon, Mr James Barrett, appointed at a salary of £200.
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| The first Australian hospital to commence training of nurses and midwives.
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| Pupils first admitted to the hospital for a formal training course in midwifery nursing.
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| Dr Richard Tracy appointed first lecturer in obstetric medicine and diseases of women and children at the University of Melbourne.
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| Dr Richard Tracy performs the first successful ovariotomy – surgical removal of an ovarian tumour - in Victoria (at the time, only the second successful operation in Australia).
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| Training of medical students begins at the hospital.
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| Rooms are added for the reception of outpatients.
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| Mrs Perry returns to England with her husband. Lady McCulloch is her successor as President of the Committee of Management.
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| Death of Dr Richard Tracy.
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| Scarlet fever epidemic closes hospital (re-opens February 1876).
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| New wing added includes an operating room, two small wards, a sitting room for students, a dining room and bedrooms for nurses and a convalescent ward.
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| Decision made to appoint separate residents for the Midwifery Department and the Infirmary.
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| American actress Genevieve Ward gives a performance of “Antigone” in the Melbourne Town Hall, raising more than £2,500 towards the building of a new maternity wing.
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| Name changed to The Women’s Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children.
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| Name changed again – ‘children’ removed from the title.
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| Work on the Genevieve Ward Wing (new Midwifery Department in Cardigan Street) completed and officially opened by the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch.
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| Appointment of first salaried Superintendent-Secretary.
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| 1892
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| Dr Margaret Whyte, first woman doctor to hold post on hospital staff, appointed Assistant Resident Officer, Midwifery Department.
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| New Infirmary Wing (in Swanston Street, south of the existing building, close to Grattan St) opened by Lady Sybil Brassey, wife of the Governor of Victoria.
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