| Arcadia Vale | Depression (c.1930's) | |
| Brightwaters | Bushfire (1875) | |
| Dora Creek | Flood c.1978. | |
| Dora Creek | Flood c.1981 | |
| Dora Creek | Floods | |
| Dudley | Mine explosion (1898) | |
| Gateshead | 'army camp on the site of the present Gateshead High School' | |
| Gateshead | 'wartime petrol shortages' | |
| Jewells | Army Camp | |
| Kahibah | Baden Powell visit. Scout Camp was visited by Baden Powell in 1932 | |
| Killingworth | Mine explosion, Killingworth Colliery | |
| Pulbah Island | 'island was declared a reserve' | |
| Pulbah Island | Kangaroos, koalas, wombats, wallabies and emus were settled on the island (1920) | |
| Pulbah Island | Koala sightings (1969)(1976) | |
| Pulbah Island | Koalas found shot dead (1960) | |
| Pulbah Island | Parma Wallabies released on Pulbah Island (1972) | |
| Rathmines | Outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia wiped out the cattle industry around Lake Macquarie ( c.1860) | |
| Rathmines | RAAF base was purchased by Lake Macquarie Shire Council (1963) | |
| Rathmines | RAAF Station formed (1939 - 1952) | |
| Redhead | Bushfire set alight a mine powder magazine (1949) | |
| Redhead | Mine explosion killed 5 men (1926) | |
| Swansea | Archaeological Excavation (1972) | |
| Swansea | Midden was uncovered while clearing for housing near Swansea Heads (1971) | |
| Teralba | Lake Macquarie Shire Council's first meeting (1906) | |
| Tingira Heights | Bushfire (1982) | |
| Valentine | Cawarra Gale (1866) | |
| West Wallsend | Mine explosion, West Wallsend Colliery (1979) | |
| West Wallsend | Mine explosion, West Wallsend Extended (Killingworth) (1910) | |
| West Wallsend | West Wallsend Colliery, Miners General Strike (1888) | |
| Whitebridge | Fire, Burwood Colliery (1979) | |
| Whitebridge | Gas explosion, Burwood Colliery (1901) |