Development of the Colony

By ksmith67

  • John Oxley sent to look for new penal sites

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    Queenslansd Timespan

  • Moreton Bay convict settlement estableshed in Redcliff

    Is transfered to the banks of the Brisbane River near the end of the northen Victoria Bridge

  • German Missionarys bring Christianity

    German Missionarys establish Zion hill mission (now Nundah) to bring christianity to the Aborigines in Brisbane

  • Queenslands first newspaper

    The Moreton Bay Coriour is published. This later became the Coriour, then Brisbane Coriour and since 1933 The Coriour Mail.

  • Brisbane becomes a colony

    On 10 December, Queensland's first Governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, and his wife Lady Diamantina, arrive in Brisbane. The proclamation establishing the Colony of Queensland is read to wild applause from the balcony of Government House (now the Deanery of St John's Cathedral).