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Richard Daintree and Antoine Fauchery (circa 1858) A gang of diggers at Forrest Creek, Chewton. The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an influx of population growth and financial capital for ...
Following a decade of settler pressure, the Port Phillip District was separated from New South Wales as the new Colony of Victoria in 1851. At the same time, discoveries of gold north of Melbourne sparked what would soon become one of the largest gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Within just three years Victoria would overtake New South Wales to become the most populous colony in ...
Adopted. 6 March 1870. Design. A state badge of a white Southern Cross surmounted by St Edward's Crown, on a defaced British Blue Ensign. The flag of Victoria is a British Blue Ensign defaced by the state badge of Victoria in the fly. The badge is the Southern Cross surmounted by an imperial crown, which is currently the St Edward's Crown.
In the wake of a gold rush the following month, Victoria emerged as Australia's richest colony, and Melbourne, its capital, Australia's largest and wealthiest city. With Melbourne's rapid growth came calls for the establishment of a public art gallery, and in 1859, the Government of Victoria pledged £2000 for the acquisition of plaster casts of sculpture. [3]
Victoria. (1855) HMVS Victoria (Her Majesty's Victorian Ship; also referred to with the prefix HMCSS -Her Majesty's Colonial Steam Sloop) was a 580-ton combined steam/sail sloop-of-war built in England in the 1850s for the colony of Victoria, Australia. [1] [2] : 60.
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia. At its greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, the Northern Territory as well as ...
This article is for people who were from the Colony of Victoria which existed from 1851-1901. Before 1851 the area that is now the Colony of Victoria was part of New South Wales, so people whose connection to the area is significant before 1851 would go in the Colony of New South Wales people category.
