- May 29: Requisition drawn up for a meeting to take steps to form a Chamber of Commerce. First committee meeting 2 June, with W.D. Moore as Chairman and members [W.E. Marmion]], John McCleery, E. Solomon, JdeM Absolom, J. McGibbon and E.H. Higham.
- Completion of the first section of the Ocean Jetty/Long Jetty.
- November 27: Telegraph line was extended to Busselton.
- First Good Templar Lodge in Fremantle formed.
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 6 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1873.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2018), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.