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6 June- Allan Cunningham discovered the Darling Downs.
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11 June- Allan Cunningham located Spicer’s Gap from3.2 km to the west but he did not penetrate it.
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24 August- Allan Cunningham located Cunningham’s gap by climbing Mt Mitchell as he approached from the Moreton Bay District
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4 Aug- John Sterry Baker returned to the Moreton Bay settlement after living with aborigines for 14 years.
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Patrick Leslie arrived in Australia
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20 March- Patrick Leslie arrived at the junction of Sandy Creek (later named) and the Condamine River.
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4 June- Leslie’s main party arrived at Leslie’s crossing on the Condamine River about 8km below what became Toolburra Station.
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21 June Patrick and George or Walter Leslie with Peter Murphy rode to Gowrie though Cunningham’s Gap, halting at the Bremer River and eventually
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2 July- The first head station was established by the Leslie brothers at Toolburra This was the first permanent pastoral settlement in present day QLD
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7 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman, Commandant of the Moreton Bay Settlement, left the settlement to visit the Darling Downs, led by John Sterry Baker
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17 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman’s party passed through Gorman’s Gap.
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Thomas Alford came to the Darling Downs and established a store on the Leyburn Road leading west. Arthur Hodgson later assisted his move to establish his store at “The Springs”.
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1 May- William Horton became the licensee of the Bull Head’s Inn.
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6 Sept- Drayton School was opened and it became the first National school in the area.
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1 January- a 2 pence ( 2 cent) toll was introduced on the Toll Bar Road.
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1 Jan- Joseph Booth’s first Road Passenger and Mail Transport was established between Drayton and Ipswich.
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1 Jan- The naming of “Toowoomba” was celebrated by the people of Drayton and Toowoomba.
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1 April- Drayton School became QLd State School number 31.
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24 Nov- The proclamation making Toowoomba municipality and empowering its citizens to elect a mayor and aldermen was published. It was gazetted on 1 December, 1860. The municipality occupied all the land that had been surveyed at “The Swamp”, although much of it was surveyed as suburban to Drayton.
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12 April- The first train reached Toowoomba from Ipswich, taking 6 hours to complete the journey.
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30 April- The railway to Toowoomba was opened.
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. 20 October- Toowoomba declared a city
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. 11 June- Cunningham’s Gap road was opened
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19 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman reached Etonvale Station
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12 Nov- Joe Archer and Gilbert Elliot hauled two wagons through Gorman’s Gap.
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shearing 19 Nov- First at Etonvale Station
- Westbrook Station was settled by John (Tinker) Campbell