1810s: Macquarie Fields area is pioneered by surveyor James Meehan, who names his property after his friend, Governor Lachlan Macquarie.
1840s: Samuel Terry builds the mansion, Macquarie Fields House.
1880s: Developer William Phillips subdivides the area next to the Georges River with plans to create a minicity called Glenwood Estate with grand boulevards. The project later collapses.
1930s: Area still largely bush and popular with the homeless who establish makeshift huts.
1950s: Macquarie Fields shops developed, and substantial suburban growth begins.
1970s: A large Housing Commission development is built on the east side of town, originally to be called Glenwood, but included as part of Macquarie Fields to make Commission tenants feel included with the rest of the population.
2005: Macquarie Fields gains nationwide notoriety
with a series of riots. Allegations were made that these were the result of the Housing Commission area being
something of a ghetto.
2008: Sell-off of public housing to become private.