Development of the Colony

By cdawes2

  • john oxley sent to look for new penal sites

  • Period: to

    Oueensland 1800s

  • Moreton Bay convict settlement established in Redcliffe in 1824

  • German missionaries establish the to bring Christianity to the Aborigines in Brisbane.

  • Moreton Bay opened to free settlement

  • Queensland's first newspaper

  • Queensland- becomes a colony

  • First telegraph line in Queensland is established.

  • Kenakas people arrive to work in the cane fields

  • Queensland’s first railway line opens

  • Free primary education introduced in Queensland. The first in Australia

  • Queen Victoria gives the coat of arms to Queensland

  • Aboriginal rights- government passed an act to restrict the rights of Aboriginal people and allowed them to be sent to missions and gave the government rights to the guardianship of Aboriginal children.

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