Before the appearance of the white man the Boonorung Aboriginal tribe occupied the area from the mountains East of Melbourne to the shores of Port Phillip Bay as they hunted throughout the year.
It would appear that the earliest white settlement of the Mulgrave area was in about 1836/37 with Joseph and John Hawdon grazing cattle along the Dandenong Creek.
The City of Waverley grew from the Oakleigh and Mulgrave Roads district which was created by an Act of Parliament in 1857 following the land sales of 1853.
Featured in the logo of the WHS is St. Stephens Church which was established in 1865 and is the oldest church in what was the City of Waverley which has subsequently been absorbed into the City of Monash.
This is not an exhaustive list! If you have any dates which you feel should be included, please email us.
| Feb 1803 | Charles Robbins sights future Parish of Mulgrave |
| 1837 | Joseph and John Hawdon graze cattle along the "Dandenong Creek" flats |
| Before 1839 | The Boonoorung people, a nomadic tribe of aborigines, included the present Waverley area in their hunting grounds |
| October 1839 | Thomas Napier leases west bank Dandenong Creek, later Bushy Park Run |
| January 1840 | John McMillan applies for licence of Scotchman's Creek Run |
| October 1840 | Survey of Dandenong Creek, Scotchman's Creek and Kooyong Koot (Gardiner's Creek) |
| July 1842 | South Yarra Pound gazetted (later site of Oakleigh) |
| Dec 1846 | John McKean takes over McMillan's lease |
| 1850 | Wesleyan Methodists held cottage meetings at Black Flat |
| April 1853 | Survey of the Parish of Mulgrave by Eugene Bellairs |
| Sept-Oct 1853 | First land sales of country block in Mulgrave |
| Dec 1853 | Dr James Silverman purchases site in what was to become Mt Waverley |
| Feb-Mar 1854 | Dr James Silverman subdivides and sells first lot of subdivision |
| 1854 | Mulgrave Arms Hotel built (Princes Highway, Oakleigh) |
| 1856 | Common school built at Mulgrave, corner of Wellington and Springvale Roads |
| January 1857 | Road District of Oakleigh - Mulgrave gazetted |
| June 1860 | First road board elected |
| 1865 | St Stephen's Church of England built, Mount Waverley |
| 1866 | Judge Sir Redmond Barry buys land at Syndal |
| 1866 | Wesleyan Church, Black Flat, establishes church school |
| 1869 | St Matthews Church of England, Mulgrave, built |
| Dec. 1871 | Road district becomes a Shire |
| 1874 | Act of Parliament phases out all toll gates on public land |
| 1875 | Warrigal Road State School opened |
| March 1879 | Melbourne-Gippsland railway link (via Oakleigh) completed |
| 1885 | First Postmaster appointed - Black Flat's school master |
| 1888 | Oakleigh Times commenced publication |
| October 1888 | First Shire offices completed in Oakleigh |
| 1890 | Waverley-Oakleigh railway opened |
| 1890 | Melbourne and Metropolitan water supply installed |
| 1891 | Mulgrave Presbyterian Church built |
| 13 March 1891 | Borough of Oakleigh severed from Shire |
| 1893 | Gold discovered at Black Flat |
| 1893 | G V Blackburne of Tally-Ho has purchased Dr Hewlett's place "Letcombe" |
| 19 Feb 1897 | Shire of Oakleigh changed to the Shire of Mulgrave |
| Sept. 1899 | Opening of the horticultural hall Mount Waverley |
| 1905 | Mount Waverley Post Office named |
| January 1905 | Glen Waverley township gazetted |
| May 1905 | Glen Waverley township officially gazetted |
| July 1905 | Mount Waverley post office officially named |
| 1906 | Mount Waverley Primary School opened |
| August 1909 | Glen Waverley Mechanics Institute opened |
| 30 May 1913 | Oakleigh Borough divided into three Wards |
| 1919 | Loan obtained for building of Mount Waverley Co-operative Cool Store |
| Dec 1920 | First Council meeting in new Shire Offices - Notting Hill |
| 1921 | St Paul's Church of England built, Glen Waverley |
| 1921 | Oakleigh connected to sewerage system |
| 1922 | Melbourne-Oakleigh-Dandenong railway electrified |
| 1925 | Hughesdale station opened |
| 1926-27 | Electricity mains connected |
| 28 Apr 1927 | Oakleigh declared a City, (proclaimed 2 Aug 1927) |
| 1927 | Mount Waverley reservoir begun |
| 1928 | Huntingdale station (now East Oakleigh) opened |
| 1929 | |
| May 1930 | Railway line to Glen Waverley opened |
| 1942 | Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) formed from local men, to assist war effort |
| 1946 | Tuhan's Boundary Store, SE corner Waverley and
Warrigal Rds, demolished for road widening Nicholas buys site of Aspro factory NE corner of Waverley and Warrigal Rds |
| 1947 | |
| 15 Dec 1949 | Severance of part of South and Centre Ridings and annexed to Oakleigh |
| 1949 | |
| 1950 | Glen Waverley RSL formed |
| 1951 | |
| 1952 | |
| 1953 | Railway line to Glen Waverley duplicated, allowing direct runs to Melbourne instead of single-carriage shuttle service |
| 1954 | Foundation stone for Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Seminary (now the Police Academy) laid |
| August 1955 | Opening of Municipal Offices, Springvale Road |
| 1956 | May Rd and Hewlett Rd became Blackburn Rd Waverley's first naturalisation ceremony |
| 1957 | |
| 1958 | |
| October 1959 | Further severance of South Riding |
| 14 April 1961 | Shire of Mulgrave proclaimed the City of Waverley, population approx 45,000 |
| 1963 | GW station moved back beyond Kingsway |
| 1966 | Melway No 1 produced in a Mt Waverley garage |
| 1967 | The Glen Shopping Centre opened. Postcodes began |
| 1968 | |
| 1969 | |
| April 1970 | VFL Park opened |
| 1970 | Brandon Park Shopping Centre opened |
| 1971 | |
| 1972 | Roman Catholic Seminary and 40 acres passed to the Victoria Police College |
| 1973 | Work commenced on Mulgrave (now Monash) Freeway |
| 1974 | Monash Freeway - Stud Rd to Jacksons Rd Jell's Park started |
| 1975 | Monash Freeway - Stephensons Rd bridge |
| 1976 | Monash Freeway - Stephensons Rd to Blackburn Rd |
| 1977 | Monash Freeway - Blackburn Rd to Forster Rd |
| 1977 | Waverley Gardens Shopping Centre opened |
| 1978 | |
| 1979 | Monash Freeway - Forster Rd to Huntingdale Rd |
| 1980 | |
| 1981 | |
| 1982 | |
| 1983 | |
| 1984 | New Waverley City offices opened |
| 1985 | |
| 1986 | |
| 1987 | |
| 1988 | First sod turned for building of Arts Centre at Jells Rd and Ferntree Gully Rd |
| 1989 | |
| 1990 | |
| 1991 | |
| 1992 | |
| 1993 | |
| 1994 | City of Waverley and City of Oakleigh amalgamate to form City of Monash. Women's Sports centre at Jell's Park opens |
| 1995 | |
| 1996 | |
| 1997 | |
| 1998 | Novotel Hotel, Springvale Rd, Glen Waverley |
| 1999 | |
| 2001 | Monash Federation Centre opens |
| 2002 | Monash Aquatic Centre |
| 2004 | |
| 2005 | |
| 2006 | Eastlink construction commences. Madeline's Restaurant in Jell's Park |
| 2007 | "Once There Was Jordanville" published. Official launch 14 November |