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6 June- Allan Cunningham discovered the Darling Downs.
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Sept- Arthur Hodgson and Gilbert Elliot made contact with the NSW government at Moreton Bay via a track through Cunningham’s Gap. They had ridden from their station, Etonvale (at Mt Rubieslaw)
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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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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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October- Joe Archer, the bullocky, and Gilbert Elliot, found that the Cunningham’s Gap road was far too steep for drays.
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17 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman’s party passed through Gorman’s Gap.
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19 Oct- Lieutenant Gorman reached Etonvale Station
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19 Nov- First shearing at Etonvale Station
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20 March- Patrick Leslie arrived at the junction of Sandy Creek (later named) and the Condamine River. 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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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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20 October- Toowoomba declared a city.
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1927 11 June- Cunningham’s Gap road was opened.