Morten Bay colony

By Siennaheffernan

  • Sir Thomas Brisbane directs John Oxley to find new site for penal colony

  • John Oxley establishes Moreton Bay convict settlement as part of the New South Wales colony Redcliffe.

  • Governor Brisbane visits Morten bay settlement

  • The Moreton Bay convict settlement is transferred further up the Brisbane River.

  • The old windmill is built by convicts in Brisbane

  • Christianity comes to Brisbane

  • The morten bay in open to free settlers.

  • The firs news paper published

  • First Queensland elections are held

  • Queensland is now proclaimed as its own free from new south whales

  • Queensland’s first governor, Sir George Ferguson Bowen arrives in Brisbane

  • First Telegraph lines are built in Brisbane.