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March
- Pamphlet, Finnigan, and party left Sydney.
October
16 - Lieutenant Oxley received instructions from Governor Brisbane
to search for new penal establishment.
October
23 - Oxley left Sydney in search of new depot.
November
25 - Oxley anchored in Moreton Bay.
December
2 - Oxley discovered the river Brisbane. [Top
of Page]
September
2 - Settlement founded by Oxley at Redcliffe.
September
12 - Convicts landed at Redcliffe.
November
4 - Penal Settlement removed from Redcliffe to Edenglassie - the first name
given to Brisbane.
November
10 - Governor Brisbane left Sydney on visit to Moreton Bay.
November
23 - Governor Brisbane arrived in Moreton
Bay.
December -
Commissariat (now Colonial) stores built. [Top
of Page]
September
1 - Major Lockyer left Sydney in the Mermaid for Moreton Bay.
September
6 - Lockyer arrived in the Bay.
September
10 - Lockyer, with Captain Bishop and Lieutenant Miller, left on
excursion up
the
river.
September
20 - Lockyer named Redbank from the colour of the soil.
September
28 - Lockyer discovered either the Bremer or the Lockyer - there is a
doubt
which.
November -
Captain Logan appointed Commandant Moreton Bay. [Top
of Page]
Discovery
of Logan River by Logan.
December
19 - Death of Governor Brisbane. Limestone named by Logan.
[Top of Page]
May
14 - 300 prisoners located at Moreton Bay.
June
5 - Darling Downs discovered by Allan Cunningham.
June
5 - Logan found coal at Limestone.
June -
Governor Darling visited Brisbane and was unfavourably impressed with the
site, believing that Stradbroke Island would be better.
July
16 - Stradbroke. Dunwich, and Logan River proclaimed. [Top
of Page]
Convict
Hospital built.
Prisoners'
barracks, military barracks built.
September
18 - Rev. J. Vincent appointed chaplain. [Top
of Page]
Windmill
(present Observatory) commenced,
June
24 - Governor Darling reported that he would shift Settlement nearer the
bay, as the water was bad and sickness common at Moreton Cay. [Top
of Page]
April
17 - Pop. Moreton Bay, 1000 convicts, 100 soldiers. Female factory
built.
October
9 - Captain Logan left Settlement on an exploring trip.
October
17 -Captain Logan last seen alive by his men..
October
28 - Captain Logan's body
found. [Top of Page]
December-
Captain Clunie appointed Commandant Moreton Bay. [Top
of Page]
April
12 - Hunter Steamship Navigation Company (afterwards Q.S.N. Company) formed in
Sydney. [Top of Page]
Captain
Foster Fyans appointed Commandant Moreton Bay. [Top
of Page]
March
28 - Visit of Messrs. Backhouse and Walker, Quakers, to Moreton
Bay. [Top of Page]
August -
Arrival of first steamer in Moreton Bay, the James Watt, bringing Petrie
family.
November
5 - Governor Bourke expressed himself as favourable to closing Moreton
Bay and of reducing the number of prisoners to 300-all short sentence men. The
maize grown at Moreton Bay he valued at £1046 , and the cost per head per annum
£13. [Top of Page]
March -
German mission established: eleven men, eight women, eleven children.
March -
Arrival of Dr. Ballow in Brisbane.
November
2 - Fast in New South Wales owing to drought. [Top
of Page]
May
21 - Convict settlement broken
up.
June
27 - Allan Cunningham died in Sydney.
July
1 - All convicts except thirty-nine men removed. [Top
of Page]
May
14 - Murder of Surveyor Staplyton and assistant Tuck on the
Logan.
June -
Schooner John commenced to open up trade between Moreton Bay and Sydney,
John Williams, owner.
June
4 - Patrick Leslie with assigned servant Peter Murphy and other convicts formed
first settlement on Darling Downs.
August
12 - First pack bullocks took supplies to the Downs from Brisbane.
October
19 - First dray taken through Cunningham's Gap. [Top
of Page]
January
17 - Great flood Ipswich and Brisbane.
May
14 - Trial of blacks for murder of Staplyton and Tuck in
Sydney-found guilty and
sent
to Brisbane.
July
2 - First execution Brisbane at Windmill (Observatory) for murder of Staplyton
and Tuck. [Top of Page]
January
27 - News received in Settlement that Moreton Bay would be thrown open to free
settlers.
January
27 - Arrival first Hunter River Steam Navigation Co.'s
steamer.
March
24 - Governor Gipps visited
Brisbane.
May
4 - Andrew Petrie, Henry Stuart Russell and two other gentlemen
started on trip Wide Bay district.
May
4 - Moreton Bay thrown open to
selection.
May
7 - Mr. Petrie's party found Wandi
(Bracefield).
May
17 (about)- Mr. Petrie discovered Mary River.
May
20 - Found the runaway Duramboi (Davis).
June -
Moreton Bay defined.
July
- First sale Moreton Bay lands in Sydney: 13.5 acres realised £4037
10s.
November
14 - Captain Wickham appointed police-magistrate. [Top
of Page]
June
23 - First election for Moreton Bay (then included in a bunch of districts)
(Alex. McLeay returned).
August
9 - First sale of Moreton Bay lands conducted in
Brisbane.
October
11 - First sale of Ipswich land at Ipswich.
Coal
found by Andrew Petrie at Redbank ; John Williams ran first ferry
between Russell-street and Colonial Stores ; boiling down establishment opened
at Kangaroo Point. [Top of Page]
January
10 - Heavy flood Ipswich.
March
19 - Captain Freeman while coming from Sydney in schooner William
discovered the channel which now bears his name.
April -
First indignation meeting held in Brisbane to protest against squatting
regulations.
August -
Leichhardt left Sydney on Port Essington Expedition.
October
1 - Leichhardt left Jimbour station. [Top
of Page]
March
29 - Leichhardt returned to Sydney from Port Essington.
May
13 - Moreton Bay made a port of
entry.
June
11 - Governor Gipps left Sydney for
England.
June
17 - First race meeting at New
Farm.
June
20. - Moreton Bay Courier first
published.
June
30 - First steamer, the Experiment, ran between Brisbane and
Ipswich.
June
30 - First census taken-population, including Darling Downs,
2258.
July
13 - Arrival of first Customs officer-W. A. Duncan.
July
20 - Moreton Bay
defined.
August
2 - Governor Fitzroy arrived in
Sydney.
September -
Dr. Lang left Sydney for England on his famous immigration crusade.
October
20 - Murder Mr. Gregor and Mrs. Shannon by blacks at the
Pine.
November
18 - Colony of North Queensland proclaimed. Leichhardt left back country
on last expedition. [Top of Page]
January
2 - Courts of petty sessions for districts of Moreton Bay, Ipswich,
Cressbrook,
and Darling Downs gazetted.
March
1 - Surveyor Burnett left Brisbane intending to trace the Boyne to its
source ;unsuccessful.
March
11 - Wreck of the Sovereign.
April -
Discovery of a road over the range to southern end of Downs.
April
24 - First theatre opened by George Croft in Russell-street, South
Brisbane.
April
24 - Plan of northern entrance of Moreton Bay
completed.
May
15 - First schooner built here launched; christened Selina by Miss Petrie.
May
20 - Annual race New
Farm.
July
20 -Surveyor Burnett made second and successful attempt to trace Boyne
(Burnett) and Wide Bay (Mary) Rivers.
September
11 - Murder of two sawyers at North
Pine.
December
8 - Oddfellows' lodge opened Brisbane [Top
of Page]
January
20 - Steamer Experiment foundered at wharf.
January
22 - Rev. John Gregor drowned at Gorman Station.
January
20 - First regatta held on the Brisbane
March
27 - Discovery of horrible murder at Sutton's Hotel, Kangaroo
Point.
April
1 - Leichhardt last heard of.
April
29 - Kennedy sailed on last expedition from Sydney.
June
2 - First mails despatched to Ipswich by steamer.
June
3 - Bishop Tyrell visited Moreton
Bay.
June
20 - Letter sent to board of directors Union Bank asking them to establish
a branch at Brisbane.
June
21 - First races hold at Drayton (Toowoomba).
June
23 - Military recalled from Moreton Bay.
July
4 - Execution William Fife in Sydney for Kangaroo Point murder.
August
22 - Colonel Snodgrass returned from Moreton Bay and other districts.
October
20 - Selina found water-logged in Keppel
Bay.
November
26 - Arrival of J. C. Bidwell, first land commissioner for Wide Bay.
November
27 - Arrival sixty Chinese shepherds per Nimrod.
November
28 - Post office box at South Brisbane
established.
December
13 - Arrival of Artemesia, first Government immigrant ship, in Moreton
Bay. [Top of Page]
January -
Surveyor Burnett laid out town ship of Drayton.
January
6 - News received of Californian
goldfield.
January20 -
Arrival of Fortitude, Moreton
Bay.
January
23 - Post Office established at Maryborough, the name being given on this
date.
February
3 - First Brisbane Gaol completed (female factory).
February
7 - First, batch of Fortitude folk brought up to Brisbane
February
8 - Death of Dick Ben, notorious aboriginal.
February
18 - Rev. Charles Stewart conducted first service in old court-house.
February
19 -Thanksgiving service for safe arrival of Fortitude in old
court-house.
February
24 - Site present Custom house
approved.
March
7 - Site of present St. John's Pro-cathedral granted.
March
10 - First Wesleyan Methodist Church erected in Albert Street
March
21 - Rev. Charles Stewart appointed minister United Presbyterian Church.
March
21 - Brisbane made a free warehousing port.
May
1 - Chaseley arrived in Moreton
Bay.
May
8 - Establishment of first Temperance Society.
May
13 - Rev. Kingsford conducted first service at Ipswich.
.May
14 - Rev. Kingsford accepted call from Ipswich Presbyterians.
June
20 - Arrival of forty-five convicts by the Hashemy.
August
1 - Arrival of thirty, orphans girls from Sydney.
August
20 - Branch Lodge, Sydney District, G.U.O.O.F., established in Ipswich.
September
18 - Execution of Owen Molloy in Sydney for the murder of John Leonard, .
Oxley Creek.
September
24 - Brisbane School of Arts established.
October
11 - Warner's plan of road to Bremer, via North Brisbane, sent to Sydney
for
approval.
November
1 - Arrival Mount Stuart Elphinstone with 225
convicts.
November
3 - Lima arrived in Moreton
Bay.
November
13 - Great anti-transportation meeting held in
Brisbane.
November
13 -Detachment 11th Regiment took up their quarters in old barracks.
Erection of Catholic Church commenced.
December
6 - Windmill submitted to auction; knocked down at
£30.
December
11 - Brisbane Gaol proclaimed.
December
18 - Launch of steamer Hawk at South Brisbane. [Top
of Page]
February
11 - Circuit Court, Brisbane,
proclaimed.
February
28 - First letter carrier appointed; salary £30.
April
20 - Custom-house completed.
April
30 - Bangalore, last exile ship, arrived Moreton Bay.
May
1 - Arrival of 108 Chinese shepherds in Favourite.
May
10 - Tender accepted to build bridge at Breakfast
Creek.
May
12 - Service held first time in new Catholic Church.
May
18 - First Circuit Court held
Brisbane.
May
14 - Survey of Cleveland sent to Sydney.
May
15 - Wagner and Fitzgerald sentenced to death for murder of James
Marsden at Wide Bay.
May
20 - Meeting North Brisbane re National System of Education.
May
20 - Meeting South Brisbane re National System of Education.
July
8 - Foundation stone of St. John's laid.
July
8 - Execution Wagner and Fitzgerald.
July
11 - Military withdrawn from Moreton Bay
July
15 - Moreton Bay Quarantine Station (Dunwich) proclaimed.
July -
Grant of £150 towards establishing National School at South Brisbane.
July
10 - Moreton Bay Free Press first
published.
July
29 - Arrival of first dray (empty) from Wivenhoe to North Brisbane.
July
31 - First land sale in Ipswich, Drayton, Warwick.
August
8 - Arrival of ship Emigrant, typhus on board ; forty deaths
September
5 - Marriage Mr. John Petrie with Miss McNaught.
September
20 - Death Dr. Ballow at Quarantine Station.
September
30 - Tender accepted erection Dr. Lang's church.
October
7 - Launch of steamer Swallow by Captain Winship.
October
13 - Severe hailstorm.
November
11 - First bank opened in Brisbane.
December
18 - Cleveland township proclaimed. [Top
of Page]
January
8 - First separation meeting held in
Brisbane.
January
12 - Mail robbery at
Bundamba.
February
2 - Maryborough township established.
February
10 - Departure of Rebecca first wool, ship direct from Moreton Bay.
March
1 - Second census taken ; pop., 8575.
April
13 - United Evangelical Chapel, William street, opened.
May
7 - Moreton Bay Amateur Musical Society established.
May
12 - Affray between whites and Chinese at Ipswich. One killed, eleven
injured.
May
28 - News arrived Brisbane of Bathurst gold diggings.
July
23 - Party made first trip overland Cabbage-tree Creek to Brisbane.
September
8 - Francis Briggs elected for Pastoral districts, Moreton Bay, Wide Bay,
Burnett and Maranoa.
September
11 - J. Richardson returned for county of
Stanley.
September
12 - Richard Jones returned for Stanley
Boroughs.
October
7 - School of Arts opened.
October
18 - Pearls found at Caloundra.
November
8 - Arrival Duke of Roxburgh with 227 Chinese. [Top
of Page]
March
4 - Meeting held Brisbane to petition to Queen for direct emigration.
March
20 - Expedition search Leichhardt left Gowrie station.
April
11 - Heavy floods Brisbane and Ipswich.
April
17 - Thomas King wrecked on Cato's Bank.
April
20 - Jane Ellis, wife of warder, sent for two years for hanging servant
girl up by arms, and for other cruelties,
April
24 - Visit of Hardgreaves (Bathurst fame) at Darling Downs.
April
20 - Swallow made initial trip to Cabbage tree Creek.
May
17 - Arrival of survivors Thomas King in Brisbane.
May
24 - Gold found at Bingera ; caused rush.
June
27 - Murder Halloran (shepherd) at McGrath's, Pine River.
July
4 - Arrival Maria Soames ; 281 emigrants.
July
30 - Dr. Allan (surgeon Argyll), first mate, and immigrant
drowned off Dunwich.
August
11 - Arrival Meridian; 284 immigrants.
September
10 - Burnett's plan of Sandgate sent Sydney for approval.
September
10 - Arrival Rajahigonanl, 351 immigrants; fifteen deaths influenza
mid typhus.
September
24 - Bingora declared a duffer by returned fossickers.
October
30 - Influenza epidemic Brisbane.
November
10 - Death of Richard Jones, member Stanley Boroughs.
November
15 - Tinkabed, blackfellow, sent six years for outrage at Cash's North
Pine. [Top of Page]
January
1 - Captain Wickham appointed Government Resident.
January
1 - Courier enlarged.
January
10 - Arrival Parsee ; 493 immigrants.
January
10 - Arrival America ; 825 immigrants.
February
14 - Election R. J. Smith for Bigge's seat.
February
20 - Arrival Agrícola; 210 immigrants.
March
10 - Death of Mr. Bidwell, commissioner Crown lands, Wide Bay.
March
25 - Arrival nine notorious Norfolk Island convicts in Moreton
Bay.
April
1 - Two Norfolk Island convicts brought to Brisbane.
April
12 - Steamer New Orleans from Europe via Torres Straits in Moreton
Bay.
April
25 - Arrival Florentina; 245 immigrants.
May
4 - Other Norfolk Island convicts captured near Brisbane.
May
20 - 5th and 6th section Native Police in Brisbane.
June
7 - Branch Union Bank Australia opened in Brisbane,
June
11 - Arrival John Fieldon; 306 immigrants.
June
15 - Strike of sawyers.
June
80 - Pettigrew's mill started.
July
5 - Brisbane Exchange opened.
August
6 - Death John Gamie at Ipswich.
September
20 - Branch Bank New South Wales opened Ipswich.
October
8 - Capture Thos, Haywood, alias Anderson, bushranger,
October
31 - Wreck of Countess of Derby, South Passage, bound for Cleveland.
November
9 and 10 - Sale Sandgate, Cleveland Brisbane lands ; realised £15,000.
November
10 - Escape of Sippey, notorious black
murderer.
December
3 - Outrage on "Tom" Dowse at
Sandgate. [Top of Page]
January
10 - Courier, ship, 280 tons, burnt at Cleveland.
January
22 - Murder Stephen Swords at Kangaroo
Point.
January
27 - First shipment of cotton from Brisbane.
March
5 - Swallow sunk at South Brisbane wharf.
March
20 - Arrival Governor Fitzroy in Calliope in Moreton
Bay.
March
23 - Official entry into Brisbane.
March
30 - Police informed magistrates that unless pay was increased they would
resign.
April
1 - Robert Graham and Co. abandoned Cleveland
store.
April
28 - Hodgson-Lang election ; latter returned majority nine.
May
10 - Gazehound, first ship loaded at wharf left direct for London.
May
25 - Capture of Dundalli.
May
23 - New election Lang-Hodgson, latter returned on casting vote.
June
17 - Death of Brown, last of Newcastle tribe.
July
18 - Death of J. C. Burnett, surveyor.
August
22 - Execution of Davey for murder of Trevethan Wide
Bay.
August
10 - Now election Lang-Hodgson ; former returned one vote.
October
29 - Consecration of St. John's by Bishop of Newcastle.
November
21 - Dundalli sentenced to death. .
December
10 - News fall Sebastopol received
Brisbane.
December
20 - John Fahey, runaway convict, eleven years at large, captured
at Bunya.
December
- Death of Bungaree, educated, black. [Top
of Page]
January
6 - Dundalli executed in
Queen-street.
March
8 - Meeting St. John's parishioners to protest against
offertory.
July
8 - Pettigrew's mill destroyed by fire.
August
12 - Gregory expedition sailed Moreton Bay.
October
2 - North Australian newspaper established Ipswich.
November
21 - Wreck of Venus with 250 tons sugar in Freeman's
Channel.
November
25 - Death of Captain J. S. Barney.
December
20 - Fitzroy River navigated. [Top
of Page]
January
20 - Site for Goodna Village fixed.
January
21 - First Circuit Court before Judge Milford.
March
1 - Tenders called for Cape Moreton Lighthouse.
March
18 - Macalister's first address to electors.
April
7 - First election under new
Constitution.
May
5 - Phoebe Dunbar went ashore near Amity with 270 immigrants.
May
6 - Brig Maria took first shipment sheep and cattle to
New-Caledonia.
June
21 - Arrival of Persia ; 250 immigrants.
November
20 - Great separation meeting
Brisbane.
December
10 - Gregory expedition returned to Brisbane. [Top
of Page]
April
15 - Moreton Bay Supreme Court formally opened by Justice Milford.
May
19 - Great floods Brisbane and Ipswich.
September
20 - Labouchere's positive separation despatch arrived Moreton Bay
October
27 - Hornet Bank outrage; eleven murdered by blacks. [Top
of Page]
January
31 - The Leviathan launched.
March
4 - Gregory expedition left settled districts search Leichhardt.
June
11 - D. D. Gazette first published.
June
13 - Rev. T. Binney visited Moreton Bay.
July
9 - First announcement of gold discovery on the Fitzroy.
July
22 - Rush to Fitzroy commenced.
July
25 - Opening Presbyterian Church, Ann-street.
July
28 - Gregory's last expedition returned to Adelaide.
September
12 - Arrival of Rev. B. G. Wilson Brisbane.
October
1 - Return rush from Fitzroy commenced.
October
7 - Flood at Ipswich.
October
8 - Rockhampton made a port of entry.
October
10 - Erection of Petrie Terrace Gaol commenced.
October
25 - Foundation stone Roman Catholic Church, Ipswich, laid.
October
27 - First Municipality Act (N.S.W.) assented to.
November
17 and 18 - First sale Rockhampton land (at Sydney).
December
19 - Meeting at Ipswich to petition for creation of municipality.
December
25 - Pugh's Almanac- first published. [Top
of Page]
February
6 - Wharf Street Baptist Church opened.
February
22 - Judge Lutwyche sworn in and gazetted.
March
8 - Arrival of Judge Lutwyche in Brisbane.
July
4 - Ipswich Herald first published.
August
20 - Brisbane erected Roman Catholic See ; Bishop O'Quinn.
September
7 - Municipality of Brisbane proclaimed. First Council : John Petrie
(mayor) Patrick Mayne, T. B. Stephens, Joshua Jeays, A, J. Hockings,
Edmondstone, R. Cribb, George Warren, and W.S. Sutton.
October
12 - Circuit Court proclaimed Ipswich, Drayton, and Maryborough.
October
20 - Terrific hailstorm Brisbane.
December
10 - Queensland Separation Day.
December
31 - Estimated population of Queensland 25,050. [Top
of Page]
   
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