1827 Charles Fraser was the first white man to climb the scarp, approximately 25kms from Perth. He named the hills the General Darling Range after the Governor of NSW.
1829 The founding of the Swan River Colony. Ensign Dale of 63rd Regiment led a party along the Helena River.
1839 Benjamin Robins was the first to take land in the Kalamunda area near Bushmead.
1861 Robins bought 16 hectares at Gooseberry Hill.
1864 Ben Mason granted lease on 259 hectare at the head of Bickley Brook for timber cutting. Built 30 slab huts and 'road' to Canning Landing (Woodloes). The road is now known today as Hardinge Rd.
1868 Mason won contract to supply sleepers to the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. He failed to fulfill the contract due to transport difficulties.
1870 Mason & Co. began building the second railway in the colony - a wooden tramway to Canning River. First school was opened in the area.
1872 Official opening of the tramway by Governor Weld.
1877 Bird pulled out of the timber company.
1880's Whim invented for timber hauling at Canning Mills.
1881 Frederick and Elizabeth Stirk arrived at Kalamunda.
1882 Mason's company went bankrupt.
1885 John and Emma Wallis who arrived at Mason's Mill in 1880, settled at Orangedale, Walliston. Richard and Mary Weston settled Springdale. Their son, Francis, aged 3 days, died in 1876 and is buried at Mason's Mill.
1889 Edward Keane was granted the timber license formerly owned by Mason. He and his brother-in-law formed Lionel White & Co. Built the sawmill at Canning location 164, known as Canning Mills. Eventually 400 people lived there. Neil Mcneil began building Victoria Reservoir on Munday Brook. Opened 1891. Kalamunda waited 64 years for water.
1890 Edward White began surveying for what was to become the Zig Zag railway. Contract with government signed 1891.
1891 School opened at Canning Mill. Continued until 1930.
1895 First government school, called Govt Provisional School, Gooseberry Hill opened. The headmaster was Mr Swindells. Darling Range Vine and Fruit growers Assoc. formed.
1897 Darling Range Road Board officially severed from Swan Roads Board, but included Mundaring. Agricultural Hall built, the first brick building in the area. Archibald Sanderson bought land in area. He named the land Lesmurdie after a shooting lodge in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on a property let for shooting to his father. Albert Shunke settled in Grove Rd. He started to exported to India in 1908.
1898 R.G. Dixon built a house called Leonore in mis-spelled Lenori Rd.
1899 First Church of England dedicated by Bishop Riley.The church was located at the corner of Boonooloo and Kalamunda Rds. Known as Gooseberry Hill Church as Kalamunda was not yet named.
1901 Townsite of Calla Munda proclaimed. The name was from Bishop Salvado's Aboriginal vocabulary. The Surveyor General changed the 'C' to 'K'.
1902 C.H Hummerston built a hotel in Railway Rd.
1903 Mundaring Weir opened. Haynes Rd and Railway Rd cleared. The government took over the railway to Pickering Brook. In 1910 the remaining line to Canning Mills was also taken over and was extended to Karragullen in 1912.
1904 First Roads Board office built. 1st August at Poison Gully fatal accident in Zig Zag railway in heavy rain killing driver G. Green and fireman W. Lyons. Archibald Sanderson bought the first motor car in the area. Carmel school opened, closed 1990.
1905 1/4 acre blocks sold for £5 requiring a deposit of £1 and repayments of £1 per month.
1907 Richard Sampson arrived in Kalamunda. He served 20 years as chairman of the Darling Range Roads Board and was the MLA for Swan from 1921 to 1944. When he died in 1944, he left one thousand pounds for a memorial. This was used to build an Infant Health Centre which opened in 1951.
1908 First telephone connected at Roads Board office. Curry (storekeeper) and Hummerston (publican) also had telephones connected that year.
1909 Welshpool Rd and Belmont Rd are cleared.
1910 Maida Vale receives its name - named after settler R. McCormack's house, Maida Vale.
1912 Karragullen named. Name suggested by Daisy Bates and is Aboriginal for Red Gully.
1913 A state school opened at Illawarra with 12 pupils.
1916 First local car registration.
1918 First cool store in WA built at Illawarra. Soldier settlement scheme implemented along Piesse Brook. Later many of the ex-soldiers walked off and the land was bought by Italians.
1919 Government tree puller began clearing land at Pickering Brook.
1920 Worst motor accident in WA to that time occurred in Kalamunda Rd. Six people from the High Street Cricket Club Fremantle died. No ambulance service. Later that year the Midland ambulance service covered Midland and Kalamunda. In 1940 fund raising began for a Kalamunda ambulance. An ambulance was bought in 1947. Pickering Brook Sports Club began.
1921 Electricity came to Kalamunda - six street lights. Mary's Mount school opened for boys only. The school was run by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition.
1922 Charlie Ellis began showing silent movies in a garden cinema next to the hotel.
1924 Charlie Ellis installed a petrol pump. He began the first motor garage and taxi service at the corner of Railway and Haynes St. Ellis was bought out by Webster and Binns who began a bus service.
1925 Kazmiex Kostera arrived, bought out Webster and Binns. He ran the bus service until it was taken over by the government in 1958.
1926 Jim Crabb began delivering meat and other supplies to outlying areas. Tennis courts in Haynes Rd.
1927 Paddy Conolly built a new hotel next to the original with money from the winnings of Blue spec, the only WA horse to win the Melbourne Cup (1905).
1928 Kalamunda Golf Club began.
1929 St. Brigids School opened.
1933 Gordon Farrell began a parcel service with a motor bike and sidecar. He bought his first truck in 1934. This service became Kalamunda Transport and was operational until it was sold to Ansett in 1977.
1935 Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade formed.
1937 Kalamunda Rd sealed.
1938 Welshpool Rd sealed.
1939 War memorial built.
1942 Influx of 'city folk' to avoid any WW2 attack.
1945 US Navy DC3 aircraft crashed into Gooseberry Hill killing the crew and thirteen passengers.
1948 Stirk property purchased by Roads Board.
1949 Zig Zag railway closed following a decline in timber and passenger numbers as motor vehicles became more readily available.
1952 First local newspaper.
1954 Water arrived, provided by the Goldfields Scheme. The first attempt to get water to Kalamunda was in 1903.
1854 Roman Catholic Church at Kalamunda consecrated.
1955 Convent for Ursaline Nuns which included a small school was completed at Pickering Brook. Full time police station. Automatic telephone.
1958 Two huts from Allawah Grove were bought to provide a library service next to Kostera Oval.
1963 Library opened at present site.
1964 Swimming pool opened.
1970 Kalamunda Museum opened. Old Kalamunda school bought by the museum.
1974 Post Office moved to Kalamunda History Village.
1977 New Shire offices opened.
1981 McCullogh cottage moved to Kalamunda History Village.
1998 Centenary of the Darling Range Roads Board.