| 1842 |
Jondaryan Station was registered by Henry
Coxen in the name of his uncle Charles Coxen. Ownership
of Jondaryan was to change several times until Kent
and Weinholt took over in 1858 |
| 1843
|
First sheep arrived at Jondaryan |
| 1844 |
Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt visited Jondaryan Station and
collected fossils there |
| 1845 |
J M Andrew owned and managed
Jondaryan until 1854 |
| 1846 |
First shearing shed was built at Jondaryan |
| 1849 |
Shearing shed was burnt down by a disgruntled ex-employee |
| 1851 |
Second shearing shed was built at Jondaryan |
| 1851 |
Gold was discovered in Victoria, many rural workers joined
the gold rush |
| 1858 |
Kent and Weinholt take
over Jondaryan |
| 1859 |
Construction begins on a huge
new shearing shed -- it will become the Jondaryan Woolshed
we know today |
| 1859 |
Queensland becomes a separate state |
| 1861 |
First shearing takes place in Jondaryan Woolshed, before
it is completed |
| 1861 |
First shearers' feast at Jondaryan |
| 1868 |
Jondaryan gets a railway link making it easier to transport
the wool |
| 1868 |
HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh's
visit to Jondaryan is a disaster because an over-zealous Government
official prohibits him from partaking in local hospitality |
| 1872 |
First Government school was opened at Jondaryan township |
| 1874 |
53 shearers from Jondaryan
became the first Australian shearers to form a union group |
| 1874 |
William Kent I died. 800 people
including 300 of his employees attended his funeral in Toowoomba |
| 1881 |
Jondaryan's first well-boring rig goes into production,
constructed by James Mires and John
Schell |
| 1890 |
Machine shears first installed at Jondaryan |
| 1890 |
Following industrial action at Jondaryan, an agreement
was struck between management and workers called the Pittsworth
Accord -- this kept Jondaryan out of the national Shearers'
Strike in 1891 |
| 1894 |
Kent and Weinholt dissolve their partnership and transfer
ownership of Jondaryan to Jondaryan Estates of Australia (Pty)
Limited |
| 1901 |
Federation of Australia |
| 1902 |
Drought -- there was no useful rain from October 1901
until December 1902 |
| 1946 |
Jondaryan station was broken up |
| 1972 |
Centenary of Jondaryan State School sparked
interest in the woolshed |
| 1973 |
Rutledge family offered the Jondaryan Woolshed and 12
acres of land to the people of the district |
| 1973 |
Discovery of old records thought
lost |
| 1999 |
Jondaryan acquires the Roadburner |
| 2002 |
Jondaryan Shire Council assumes ownership and management of
the Jondaryan Woolshed |
