1851 - The first annual public fair and show is held on 11 March
1852 - The sixth Auckland Agricultural and Horticultural Society Show was held in Joseph Newman's saleyards
1853 - William Swainson refers to 'the village of Newmarket'
1854 - Another nursery, Carlton Gore, is established in Newmarket at Walter Brodie's house
1858 - Captain Cook Hotel (also called the Captain Cook Inn) is built on Khyber Pass
1859 - Captain Cook Brewery is established
1860 - Great Northern Brewery is founded by Richard Seccombe
1860 - Junction Hotel is built at the junction of Manukau Road and Great South Road
1860 - Clovernook homestead is built
1860 - First recorded date for a post office in Newmarket
1860 - The 'Newmarket Blockhouse' is erected in the Auckland Domain and is staffed by Auckland militia
1860s - John Lumpkin opens a butchery
1862 - Highwic is built
1863 - A new day school is opened in the new Presbyterian church, on the corner of Mortimer Pass and Morrow Street
1863 - Hobson's Bridge is reconstructed
1863 - Newmarket Hotel is built
1863 - The Turnpike Act is passed and a toll gate is placed at the junction of Manukau Road and Remuera Road
1864 - Charles Scott McDonald establishes Newmarket Nursery on the corner of Morrow Street and Manukau Road
1865 - Construction begins on Auckland's railway line, including plans for a station at Newmarket
1868 - Newmarket is gazetted a highway district on 26 September and is brought under the Highways Act on 31 October
1869 - John Kinder photographs a waterfall in Hobson Gully
1869 - The Newmarket Literary Institute is set up and debates issues such as Darwinian theory
1870s - A wooden town hall is erected on Manukau Road (now Broadway)
1870s - Temple of Fashion, run by John Jenkins, opens
1870s - Joseph Borley becomes one of Newmarket's first bootmakers
1871 – springs reserved for water supply in Mahuru Street
1871 – Kent Bakeries opens
1873 - Newmarket's railway line is built
1873 - Highwic is extended
1873 - James Taite opens a chemist
1875 - Queen Street merchant, James Ah Kew, starts vegetable gardens on Khyber Pass Road. Ah Kew employed Chinese workers to irrigate the land and deliver produce from house to house. The land became known as the 'Chinamen's Gardens'
1875 - Newmarket Hall is constructed
1877 – Julian Brook opens a tobacconist
1876 - Auckland's first skating rink is set up in the Newmarket Hall
1877 - A 'Government school for boys' is designed by architect James Wrigley. This is to be situated at the Presbyterian church, on the corner of Mortimer Pass and Morrow Street
1878 - Newmarket Domain, the triangle of land from Lumsden Green to the top of Olympic Park, is vested in the Newmarket Highway District Board under the Newmarket Reserve Act
1879 - A contract is let for the construction of a Newmarket Junction Train Station, for Newmarket is to become the junction of the main trunk line to the south and the Kaipara line to the west and the north
1879 - Domain Brewery is built
1879 - James Carpenter opens a coal and firewood business
1881 - Park Brewery is built
1880 - The Newmarket to Glen Eden section of the Kaipara railway line is opened in March
1880s – Smith & Caugheys opens
1880s - Highwic is extended again. This was completed in 1885
1880s - Captain Cook Brewery becomes Great Northern Brewery
1880s - the Helensville Timber Co. Ltd is located on Manukau Road
1882 – Newmarket Police Station opens
1883 - Newmarket becomes a road board district
1885 - A meeting is of the burgesses of Newmarket is held and it is decided that they will not amalgamate with Auckland City but form the road board area into a borough. The Borough of Newmarket was constituted on 7 May
1885 - William Suiter is elected as Mayor, along with 9 councillors
1885 - The Newmarket Fire Brigade is formed
1885 - The Fathers of St Benedict's Parish allow Frances Chitty to open a school for Catholic children on the corner of Union Street and Khyber Pass Road
1885 - The newly elected Newmarket Borough Council undertakes kerbing and channelling in the borough to modernise the road system
1886 – Auckland Savings Bank opens in December
1886 - Newmarket Bowling and Tennis Club is established
1886 - The horse-drawn tram service eastern circuit opens to include Newmarket. Within the first week, the horse-trams were carrying 2,000 passengers a week to Newmarket
1887 - The Newmarket Literary Institute seta up a Glee Club
1887 – Carlton Club Hotel opens
1890s - Mrs Reach's Coffee Palace opens on Manukau Road
1890 - Steam Confectionery and Peel Works open on Manukau Road
1893 - Newmarket Bowling Club is established
1897 - Harrison and Gash, a carriage building company, is established.
