The City of Brunswick was a local government area in the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The first meeting of the council of the new municipality was held in the Cornish Arms Hotel, on 23 October of that year.

In 1884, the precursor to the Upfield railway line opened, running from Spencer Street at the western edge of Melbourne city to Coburg, with two stations in Brunswick at what are today named Jewell and Brunswick stations.

Thus far, commercial activity in Sydney Road had been concentrated at its southern end, but after 1884, the shopping strip began to be extended north of Albert Street.

In 1897, the first motor car in Victoria arrived courtesy of Brunswick resident John Pender.

[3] The City of Brunswick was a stable geographic area from 1870 until 1994, comprising an area of 11.01 square kilometres (4.25 sq mi)[3] bounded by the Moonee Ponds Creek to the west, the Merri Creek to the east, Moreland Road to the north and Park Street (one block south of Brunswick Road), Nicholson Street and May Street to the south.

[4] The 1991 census conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics identified 39,779 persons resident in the City of Brunswick.