{"slug": "brisbane", "label": "Brisbane", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34932", "qid": "Q34932", "description": "capital city of Queensland, Australia", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1825, 1988], "span_label": ["1825 CE", "1988 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "may", "label": "May", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "san-francisco", "label": "San Francisco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-south-wales", "label": "New South Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crown-colony", "label": "Crown colony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May", "text": "May – History of Brisbane: The Australian city of Brisbane is founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#April–June", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 6", "text": "June 6 – The British Crown colony of Queensland in Australia is created, by devolving part of the territory of New South Wales (Queensland Day). Brisbane is declared the capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#April–June", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Brisbane Grammar School is founded, providing the opportunity for secondary education for the first time in the colony of Brisbane in Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#Date_unknown", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of 465 mm in (a record for any Australian capital city).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#January", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 29", "text": "June 29 – The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane, Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#June", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. Having left Oakland, California on May 31, they reach Brisbane via Honolulu and Fiji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#June", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1934, "year_label": "1934 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 20", "text": "October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372993239#September–October", "title": "1934", "revid": 1372993239, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 11", "text": "January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#January", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 30", "text": "April 30 – World Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#April", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › April"}}]}