Development of the colony

  • John Oxley sent to look for new penal sites

  • Period: to

    Qeensland 1800s

  • The Morton Bay convict settlement

  • German Missinaries established Zion Hill Mission which is now Nundah to bring christianity to the aborignals

  • Morton Bay District is opened to free settlement

  • Qeenslands first newspaper is published

  • Qeen Victoria signs the letter patent aproving Qeensland becoming a seperate colony to New South Whales

  • Aborignal first land rights claim results by a Scottish Roman Catholic Priest