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23 July- A second application was made for a school at Drayton.
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6 June- Allan Cunningham discovered the Darling Downs.
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20 March- Patrick Leslie arrived at the junction of Sandy Creek (later named) and the Condamine River.
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21 June Patrick and George or Walter Leslie with Peter Murphy rode to Gowrie though Cunningham’s Gap, halting at the Bremer River and eventually
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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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4 Aug- John Sterry Baker returned to the Moreton Bay settlement after living with aborigines for 14 years.
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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 Nov- Walter Leslie took drays from Toolburra Station to Brisbane via Gorman’s Gap
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4 April- Ludwig Leichhardt’s last letter from Mt Abundance Station
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4 April- Ludwig Leichhardt’s last letter from Mt Abundance Station
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1 May- William Horton became the licensee of the Bull Head’s Inn.
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21 June- First horse races at Drayton.
Patrick Leslie bought back Goomburra Station
First meeting re the school at Drayton held in the Bull’s Head In -
20 August- In the Bull’s Head Inn, the Reverend B Glennie conducted the first Church of England service on the Downs.
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1 January- a 2 pence ( 2 cent) toll was introduced on the Toll Bar Road
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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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6 October- Lieutenant Owen Gorman, last commandant of the Moreton Bay Settlement, died of pneumonia at Armidale, New South Wales at the age of 63 years.
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6 October- Lieutenant Owen Gorman, last commandant of the Moreton Bay Settlement, died of pneumonia at Armidale, New South Wales at the age of 63 years.
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12 April- The first train reached Toowoomba from Ipswich, taking 6 hours to complete the journey.
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14 November- The birth of Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) of “Dad and Dave” fame.
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16 September- The railway to Roma was opened.
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20 October- Toowoomba declared a city.
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11 June- Cunningham’s Gap road was opened