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Bulli - Timeline
| 1817 | Cornelius O'Brien settled at Bulli Point |
| 1844 | Cattle stealing was said to have been carried on to some extent at Bulli. |
| 1858 | Robert Sommerville opened a sawmill in July |
| 1859 | About this time a company known as the Bellambi and Bulli Coal Company was formed. |
| 1861 | A School of Arts called Bellambi & Bulli School of Arts was opened. |
| 1861 | A Roman Catholic School was conducted by a Miss McNamara in a slab building. |
| 1861 | A Sunday school was in operation, it was taught by Messrs. Sommerville and Salter in the house of Mr & Mrs Salter. |
| 1863 | The Bulli Coal Company officially opened its mine on the mountainside west of Bulli Point. |
| 1863 | Overseas trade started when the Ironside carried the first shipment of coal to Shanghai. |
| 1863 | Wheeled vehicles began using the Bulli Pass. |
| 1865 | The Uniting Church was built for the Wesleyans of the Bulli district. |
| 1867 | The miners campaigned for extra pay as compensation for the larger coal skips which had been introduced by the Manager |
| 1867 | Bulli Pass Road was built |
| 1868 | The board of the Bulli Company donated fifty pounds and land valued at one hundred pounds for the establishment of a public school in July |
| 1869 | Alexander Ross, Richard White and Samuel Smedley were appointed to the School Board |
| 1869 | The Bulli Post Office was opened on 1 October 1869 |
| 1879 | Bulli grew to have five stores |
| 1880 | Archbishop Polding travelled to Bulli in July to bless a new school-church being erected |
| 1887 | The Bulli Mine Disaster occurred on the 23 March 1887 - 81 men died. |
| 1887 | The Wollongong to Clifton section of the South Coast railway was opened |
| 1889 | The Bulli Hotel opened its doors for business on the 6 September 1889 |
| 1891 | The abandoned Bulli "B" Pit was reopened by Messrs. Williams and Garlick on 11 February 1891 |
| 1892 | The first shipment from Bulli Pass collliery was made on 2 June 1892 |
| 1893 | Bulli District Hospital opened on land given by Mrs George Organ |
| 1895 | The "B" Pit was renamed the Bulli Steam Coal Company by a Mr Evans |
| 1906 | Bulli Shire proclaimed on 15 May 1906 |
| 1907 | In April severe gales raged off the South Coast and swept away the greater portion of the Bulli Coal-loading jetty. |
| 1910 | Bulli Shire Council secured a town water supply for the Bulli area about 1910 |
| 1913 | An electricity supply was obtained from South Bulli Colliery for lighting homes and streets |
| 1947 | Shire of Bulli amalgamated with the City of Wollongong, Central Illawarra and the Municipality of North Illawarra to form the City of Greater Wollongong |
| 1948 | Bulli hospital opened. |
| 1950 | About this time the Australian Iron & Steel Company undertook the formidable and costly task of re-organising and modernising the old Bulli Colliery and its outmoded rail transport system |
| 1952 | Bulli show society formed. The first annual show held at Slacky Flat the following year. |
| 1956 | Baby health centre opened. |
| 1959 | Bulli branch of the Wollongong City Library opened. |
| 1960 | Bulli Woonona RSL club opened. |
| 1969 | 15 bed female ward opened at Bulli hospital. This year also marks the centenary of Bulli Public School. |
| 1988 | Bulli Miner’s Cottage advertised for sale as a development site. Eventually deemed to be of heritage significance and purchased by Wollongong City Council. |
| 1990 |
Ray Hannah, a Sydney car dealer buys a tract of land stretching from South Thirroul to East Bulli, which will eventually become the site of an application for large scale housing development at Sandon Point. |
| 1993 | Conservation plan for Bulli Miner’s Cottage released, with the recommendation that it become a Miner’s memorial museum. |
| 2000 | Development application lodged for subdivision generating 14 house sites at Hill Street Bulli. This application is the first stage in a proposed housing development by Stockland’s, which it hopes will eventually encompass 9ha and 428 lots in total. The application causes immediate controversy. |
| 2000 | 100th anniversary of Weber’s Lookout, Bulli Tops. |
| 2001 | Council rejects stages 2-6 of the ongoing Sandon Point development application. Stockland challenges this decision in the Land and Environment Court. The court eventually decide in favour of the development subject to a number of conditions being met, and work commences on the site. |
| 2003 | A Commission of Inquiry recommends scaling back the development at Sandon Point. |
| 2004 | Production ceases at Bulli Tile and Brick works. Industrial Heritage assessment carried out, deeming the site top be of local industrial heritage significance. |
| 2006 | The NSW government grants conditional approval for continuing development at Sandon Point, subject to its being scaled back to 181 lots in total with 60% of the development area to be retained for open area and public space. |
| 2006 | Development consent granted for a new Southern Gateway Tourism and Information Centre at Bulli Tops. |
| 2007 | In a landmark decision, the Land and Environment Court overturns state government approval for further Sandon point development on the basis of climate change considerations. |
Last Modified: 21/07/2008
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