Edward MacDevitt elected Member for Kennedy. Served 15 September 1870 – 18 November 1873
Townsville's town common set aside as a dairying and cow pasture.
Cardwell primary school opens.
A major gold reef was found at Etheridge.
A telegraph repeating station for an overland line to the Gulf was built at Georgetown.
First Aboriginal Reserve in the Mackay district created between Bakers and Sandy Creeks by George Bridgman. It was estimated that over half of the district's Aborigines had died since white settlement in less than 10 years.