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Queensland

state of Australia

21 dated entries naming Queensland, drawn from 19 separate years between 1856 CE and 2017 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Queensland, Australia in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1856Suburb of Goodna founded in Queensland, Australia – Originally part of NSW, its 150-year anniversary was celebrated in 2006.source
  • 1859June 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.source
  • 18596 June – The colony of Queensland is established by decree of Queen Victoria.source
  • 1862Donald McIntyre builds a settlement in northwest Queensland (Australia) which becomes the town of Julia Creek (named after his niece).source
  • 186716 October – English immigrant James Nash reports to authorities that he has discovered 75 ounces of alluvial gold in a creek at Gympie, Queensland. The find sparks a gold rush to the area, saving the colony of Queensland from bankruptcy.source
  • 187226 February – The brig Maria is wrecked when it strikes a reef near Cardwell off the coast of Queensland, killing 39 people.source
  • 188022 January – Toowong State School is founded in Queensland.source
  • 190017 October – Natural gas is found at Roma in Queenslandsource

20th century

  • 1901January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minister of Australia.source
  • 190528 May – The town of Maryborough in Queensland experiences an outbreak of pneumonic plague.source
  • 190627 January – A cyclone damages Cairns and Innisfail in Queensland.source
  • 191123 March – The steamer SS Yongala sinks in a cyclone off the coast of Townsville, Queensland killing 122 people.source
  • 193412 March – An intense cyclone crosses the Queensland coast near Innisfail, 75 people were confirmed dead.source
  • 194314 May – The hospital ship AHS Centaur is torpedoed by a Japanese submarine off North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, killing 268 people.source
  • 19475 May – A train derails in the Camp Mountain rail accident in Queensland, killing 16 people.source
  • 194819 February – An Avro Lincoln bomber crashes at RAAF Base Amberley in Queensland, killing 16 Royal Australian Air Force personnel.source
  • 1959February – major floods in Queenslandsource
  • 195911 December – Georgian-born Australian amateur ocean rower Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko arrives in Dutch New Guinea having paddled a dugout canoe from Queensland for months via the islands of the Torres Strait for supplies. National papers such as The Canberra Times had been following his progress throughout.source
  • 196531 March – Merle Thorton and Rosalie Bogner chained their ankles to the front bar of the Regatta Hotel in Brisbane in protest against the Queensland liquor laws that banned women from pubs.source
  • 198830 April – World Expo 88 opens in Brisbane, Queensland. The exhibition runs for 6 months hosting pavilions from over 70 countries and thrusts Brisbane into the international spotlight.source

21st century

  • 20173 June – Two Australian women—a 21-year-old from Queensland and a 28-year-old from South Australia—are killed in a terrorist attack in London. Four Australians were also among the 48 injured.source

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