| Year |
Event |
Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 1788 |
Colony of New South Wales
proclaimed |
Wiki |
| 1824 |
Announcement of penal settlement
at Moreton Bay |
BT |
| 1824 |
Moreton Bay penal colony established at Redcliffe, just north of Brisbane | Wiki |
| 1825 |
Convict Settlement opened west
of North Quay at Skew St |
BT |
| 1826 |
Moreton Bay formally proclaimed
a penal settlement |
BT |
| 1828 |
Cunningham's Gap discovered to
Darling Downs |
BT |
| 1837 |
First Chinese labourers arrive
in Australia |
BT |
| 1838 |
First free cemetery in Qld at
Zions Hill (later Nundah). (Also German missionaries arrive) |
BT |
| 1839 |
Brisbane penal settlement was officially closed | QG |
| 1840 |
Brisbane Town surveyed and
Dixon's plan |
BT |
| 1840 |
Convist transportation to NSW
abolished |
BT |
| 1843 |
Catholic mission |
BT |
| 1843 |
land auction of South Brisbane |
BT |
| 1843 |
Cemetery surveyed at South
Brisbane (later West End School) |
BT |
| 1845 |
barge service to Ipswich |
BT |
| 1845 |
First denominational school
opened by Catholic church |
BT |
| 1846 |
Ipswich colliery |
BT |
| 1846 |
NSW census (includes Brisbane) |
BT |
| 1846 |
Ipswich and Drayton post offices
open |
BT |
| 1846 |
Moreton Bay Courier published |
BT |
| 1846 |
Brisbane proclaimed a port of
entry |
BT |
| 1847 |
Colony of Gladstone
proclaimed |
BT |
| 1849 |
St Johns Anglican School |
BT |
| 1850 |
Cleveland township proclaimed |
BT |
| 1853 |
Cabbage Tree Creek (Sandgate)
promoted as alternate port to Cleveland, and Sandgate township
proclaimed |
BT |
| 1855 |
first recorded case of leprosy |
BT |
| 1856 |
Norman Creek Bridge |
BT |
| 1856 |
Woogaroo/Goodna village
proclaimed |
BT |
| 1858 |
permanent bridge over Breakfast
creek |
BT |
| 1859 |
Lytton village proclaimed |
BT |
| 1859 |
First elections of Brisbane
Municipal council |
BT |
| 1859 |
Proclaimation of Queensland as
colony |
BT , Wiki |
| 1859 |
all male British subjects over the age of 21 had the vote in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. The secret ballot was introduced in Queensland. Queensland received self government. | SW |
| 1859 |
God's Acre Cemetery at
Archerfield |
BT |
| 1860 |
Primary Education Act and
Grammar Schools act passed. Kangaroo Point school, Brisbane National School |
BT |
| 1860 |
Land sales & subdivisions at
Wynnum, Spring Hill, Toowong, Fortitude Valley, |
BT |
| 1860 |
Ipswich proclaimed a municipality |
BT |
| 1861 |
St Stephens school |
BT |
| 1861 |
Toowoomba proclaimed a
municipality |
BT |
| 1862 |
Milton church of England burial
ground consecrated |
BT |
| 1862 |
German Station (Nundah) Cemetery
opened |
BCC |
| 1862 |
Queensland's western boundary changed from longitude 141° E to 138°E. | Wiki |
| 1863 |
St Patricks school in Fortitude
Valley |
BT |
| 1863 |
Francis Lookout at Corinda
burial ground |
BT |
| 1863 |
First Queensland goldfield at
Calliope |
BT |
| 1864 |
Typhoid outbreak in Brisbane |
BT |
| 1864 |
Queensland census taken |
BT |
| 1865 |
Diamantina Orphanage opened (in
fever hospital at Petrie Terrace) |
BT |
| 1865 |
schools at Bowen Bridge
(Windsor), Redbank and German Station (Nundah) |
BT |
| 1865 |
first patients at
Woogaroo/Goodna lunatic asylum |
BT |
| 1865 |
wooden bridge joins North and
South Brisbane |
BT |
| 1865 |
Moggill cemetery opened |
BCC |
| 1866 |
discovery of payable gold near Rockhampton | QG |
| 1866 |
Moggill, Bulimba, Bald Hills
Schools |
BT |
| 1866 |
Primitive Methodist chapel at
Bulimba (and gravestones) |
BT |
| 1866 |
The Queenslander newspaper
established (to 1939) |
BT |
| 1867 |
Quarantine station/prision St
Helena Island |
BT |
| 1867 |
Taromeo goldfield near Esk, and
Gympie |
BT |
| 1867 |
First known burial Nudgee
cemetery |
BT |
| 1868 |
First Brisbane directory
published (to 1949) |
BT |
| 1868 |
Caloundra town declared |
BT |
| 1868 |
Last convict ship to Australia
(Fremantle) |
BT |
| 1868 |
Gold discovered at Ravenswood |
BT |
| 1869 |
St Matthews Anglican church
Grovely. |
BT |
| 1869 |
Brisbane Grammar school opened |
BT |
| 1869 |
Suez Canal opens |
BT |
| 1870 |
Beenleigh town proclaimed |
BT |
| 1870 |
Free education introduced in
Queensland |
BT |
| 1870 |
South Brisbane (Dutton Park)
cemetery opened |
BCC |
| 1871 |
Gold discovered at Charters
Towers |
CT |
| 1871 |
Governor Blackall dies. First
burial Toowong cemetery |
BT |
| 1871 |
First burial Sherwood Anglican
cemetery |
BT |
| 1872 |
The right to vote in Queensland was granted to all male British subjects over the age of 21. | SW |
| 1872 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church and
Cemetery at Bethania |
BT |
| 1872 |
Brookfield cemetery reserved |
BT |
| 1872 |
Gold rush Charters Towers |
BT |
| 1872 |
Telegraph newspaper first
published |
BT |
| 1873 |
Gold Rush Palmer River (large
chinese influx 1875) |
BT |
| 1874 |
Bulimba/Balmoral cemetery opened |
BT, BCC |
| 1874 |
Peel Is quarantine station in
lieu of Dunwich |
BT |
| 1875 |
Railway to Ipswich (end of river
steamers), Indooroopilly rail bridge |
BT |
| 1875 |
Hemmant cemetery opened |
BT, BCC |
| 1875 |
Toowong cemetery officially
opened, Milton/Paddington cemetery closed |
BT, BCC |
| 1877 |
Bald Hills Cemetery opened (at
Bracken Ridge) |
BT, BCC |
| 1878 |
Lutwyche Cemetery opened |
BT |
| 1879 |
Sandgate proclaimed a
municipality |
BT |
| 1879 |
Australian newspaper published |
BT |
| 1879 |
Torres Strait Islanders became part of Queensland | QG |
| 1881 |
Chinese immigration restriction
passed in Qld, NSW, Vic, SA |
BT |
| 1882 |
Gold discovered at Mt Morgan |
BT |
| 1883 |
German Station renamed Nundah
(and rail line to Sandgate) |
BT |
| 1883 |
New Diamantina orphanage built
in Woolloongabba (Later Princess Alexandra hospital (PA)) |
BT |
| 1883 |
Boggo Road gaol |
BT |
| 1883 |
New childrens' hospital at
Herston |
BT |
| 1883 |
Queensland annexes Papua (later repudiated by British government) | Wiki |
| 1884 |
Queensland Leader, Daily
Observer, Evening Herald published |
BT |
| 1884 |
Corinda railway completed,
linking Kangaroo Point, Wooloongabba to the Ipswich line |
BT |
| 1885 |
Troops leave for Sudan war |
BT |
| 1886 |
Cemetery proclaimed at Lutwyche
(after earlier burials) |
BT |
| 1887 |
Qld responsibility for
administering British New Guinea |
BT |
| 1887 |
Observer newspaper published |
BT |
| 1891 |
Great Shearers' Strike leads to
formation of the Labor Party |
Wiki |
| 1899 |
World's first Labor Party
Government (Premier Anderson Dawson lasted one week) |
Wiki |
| 1901 |
Federation of Australia |
Wiki |
| 1905 |
Women's suffrage in state
elections |
Wiki |
| 1909 |
University of Queensland
established |
Wiki |
| 1912 |
Brisbane General Strike for five
weeks |
Wiki |
| 1920 |
Qantas founded to serve outback
Queensland |
Wiki |
| 1928 |
Royal Flying Doctor Service of
Australia makes first flight, departing from Cloncurry |
Wiki |
| 1928 |
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
lands the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first
trans-Pacific flight |
Wiki |
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| 1897 |
Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act was passed, authorising the removal of Aboriginal people to reserves | QG |
| 1901 |
Federation, Queensland lost its colonial status and became a State | QG |
| 1905 |
QLD Women eligible to vote |
SW |
| 1918 |
Mt Gravatt cemetery opened |
BCC |
| 1962 |
Pinnaroo Lawn Cemetery opened in 1962 at Bridgeman Downs | BCC |