Bowen proclaimed a municipality.
Town of Clermont proclaimed.
Peak Downs Copper Company began mining a rich copper lode a few kilometres south of Clermont, which became the town of Copperfield.
Valley of Lagoons was taken up as a pastoral run in by George Elphinstone Dalrymple in partnership with Robert Herbert and others.
January
9 First Post Office opened in Mackay.
February
5 Mackay declared a "port of entry and clearance".
May
Thomas Henry Fitzgerald completes first survey of Mackay township and proposes the name for the settlement as "Alexandra" which is subsequently altered to "Mackay".
October
13 First sale of Mackay land held at Bowen.