Development of the Colony

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  • John Oxley sent to look for new penal sites

  • Period: to

    Queensland 1800s

  • Moreton Bay Convict Settlement Established in Redcliffe

  • German Missionaries Bring Christianity to Aborigines

  • Moreton Bay becomes a free settlement

  • The Moreton Bay Courier is published

  • Queensland beomes a colony

  • The first telegraph line in Queensland is established

  • The Kanakas in Queensland to work in cane fields

  • The first rail line opens between Ipswich and Grandchester

  • Free primary education is introduced in Queensland

  • Queen Victoria the Coat of Arms to the colony of Queensland

  • The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction Sales of Opium Act is passed