Location: 52 km southwest of Tamworth
Industry: wheat, dairy, maize, sorghum, lucerne, oats, soybeans, sunflowers, fruits, vegetables, cotton, sheep, cattle, pigs, poultry, honey
1830 first settled by George Loder
1856 first surveyed
1856 town gazetted and first land sold
1858 post office built
1866 population 250
1877 drought
1877 lock up built
1877 primary school established
1877 telegraph established
1878 cemetery establish and now holds over 1900 graves
1881 population 278
1883 courthouse built
1883 flood
1884 new post office built
1884 scarlet fever outbreak
1884 typhoid outbreak
1886 Anglican church built
1886 drought
1888 mouse plague
1889 flood
1890 flood
1895 population about 1500
1898 lock up built
1901 bridge built over Jacob and Joseph Creek
1901 fire
1903-04 Alexandros Kominos (Alexandros Cominos) born 1866 to Georgios Kominos (Tzikli) and Ekaterina Kalligerou spent the first six months in Australia here
1904 bushfire
1908 telephone exchange established
Abt 1910 Brothers Vasilios (Vasilios Gengos) (born 1880 to Georgios Tzetzos and Archontoula Trifli (Melita)), Evaggelinos (Evangelo Gengos) (born 1882) and Leonidas (Leonedas Gengos) (born 1884) and spent some time here aftr arriving in Australia
1910 fire
1910 flood
Abt 1911-17 Panagiotis Kominos (Veneris) (Peter Veneris) born 1895 to Nikolaos Kominos (Veneris) and Kiriaki Mavromati lived here
1911 new telephone exchange
1911 waterworks established
1911 population 2752
Abt 1912 Stratis Aronis (Theodoropoulos) (Stratis Aroney) born 1891 to Panagiotis Aronis (Theodoropoulos and Kali Tambaki) lived here for nine months.
Abt 1914-1918 Spiridon Kipriotis (Spero Keptreotis) born 1897 to Zacharias Kipriotis and Erini Glitzou spent four years here.
Abt 1915 Evaggelos Christianos (Angelo Christiano) born 1889 to Panagiotis Christianos and Martha Livaditi lived here with his wife Eleni Gerakiti born about 1899 to Panagiotis Gerakitis and Marigo Trifili for many years. He had a restaurant business in partnership with his brother Andreas.
Abt 1915 Andreas Christianos (Andrew Christiano) born 1896 to Panagiotis Christianos and Martha Livaditi lived and worked here for many years. He has a restaurant business in partnership with brother Evaggelos.
25 May 1917-19 June 1917 Panagiotis Chlentzos (Peter Hlentzos) born 1896 to Emmanouil Chlentzos and Kaliopi Georgopoulos lived in here and worked as a waiter
Abt 1918-19 Anastasios Paspalas( Archibald or Arhcis Paspala) born 1898 to Harilaos Paspalas and Dimitroula Gregi spent one year here
1919 Nikolaos Katsoulis born 1877 to Dimitrios Katoulis and Gligoria Petrogianni bought the Busy Bee Café in town. His wife Theodora Benardou born about 1873 to Spiridonas Benardos and Kanella Megalokonomou and there three children Dmitrios, Spiridonas and Grigoria spent many years here
1920 flood
1922 Sotiros Christianos born 1899 to Panagiotis Christianos and Matha Livaditi immigrated to Australia and went directly to Quirindi to join his brothers. He was a bootmaker and remianed in Quirindi for many years
1925-35 war memorial clock tower built
1926 dengue fever outbreak
1927 fire
1929 bridge built over Jacob and Joseph Creek
1929 courthouse burnt down
1931 replacement courthouse built
1933 population 2589
1935 new primary school building
Abt 1936 Panagiotis Kipriotis (Peter Kepreopits) born 1892 to Zacharias Kipriotis and Erini Glitzou spent four and a half years here before returning to fight for Greece in WWII
1936 bridge built over Quirindi Creek
1937 sewerage works
1938 ambulance station built in remodelled council chambers
1940 caterpillar infestation
1941 flood
1949 flood
1950 earth tremor
1954 high school established
1954 population 2735
1955 flood
1956 new high school built
1962 additions to high school
1965 drought
1966 additions to primary school
1969 additions to high school
1973 additions to high school
1976 population 2955
1979 additions to primary school
1979 additions to high school
1982 additions to primary school
1982 automatic telephones
1984 flood
1991 population 2830
1996 major upgrade of primary school
2000 flood
2011 population 2580
2013 additions to high school
For more information on the history of Quirindi I thoroughly recommend "Historical Guide to New South Wales" by Philip SImpson.
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