Melbourne Day 2025
Saturday 30th August 2025 marks 190 years since the city of Melbourne was founded - the day the first European settlers landed on the north bank of the Yarra River from the schooner Enterprize in 1835.
Celebrate 2025 Melbourne Day - 190 years of marvellous
Team up, Melbourne - be proud. Your energy, heart and soul that made us one of the world's most liveable cities - an envy of the world - is unstoppable.
Cheer Melbourne and celebrate all that's great. It's time to stand for Melbourne and keep Melbourne marvellous.
Let's get back our No 1 World's Most Liveable City trophy.
Sunday 30th August 1835
It was on Sunday 30th August 1835 that these first settlers landed and commenced with the building of a thatched storage hut and the clearing of land along the north bank of the Yarra River. This location today is known as Enterprize Park where Williams Street and Flinders Street meet near the old Customs House.
On board the Enterprize, this pioneering group was led by Captain John Lancey with Launceston builder George Evans and his servant Evan Evans, carpenters William Jackson and Robert Hay Marr, ploughman Charles Wise and blacksmith James Gilbert and his wife Mary making up the party.
The people of the Kulin nation are the traditional owners of the land that became Melbourne, including the Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung, Taungurung and Djadjawurrung people, who gathered in this place for ceremonies and cultural activities.
Melbourne Day celebrates more than just the day the city was founded. It represents the point at which the proud community of Melbourne began. And it is a day to celebrate all that makes Melbourne one of the world's most liveable cities.
Melbourne Day 2025
Team up, Melbourne - 190 years of marvellous
Join the celebrations on Melbourne Day, to cheer your city and help hoist the Melbourne and Aboriginal flags atop the 20m flagpole at Enterprize Park.
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❊ When ❊
Date: Saturday 30th August 2025
❊ Web Links ❊
→ Melbourne Day 2025❊ Also See.. ❊
→ Foundation of Melbourne
→ Home is Where the Heart is
→ Melbourne Our Town
→ Melbourne Day Celebrations 2025
→ Melburnian of the Year 2024 | Rebecca Scott
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