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The Colony of Queensland was a colony of the British Empire from 1859 to 1901, when it became a State in the federal Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. At its greatest extent, the colony included the present-day State of Queensland, the Territory of Papua and the Coral Sea Islands Territory .
- Queensland - Wikipedia
On 6 June 1859 (now commemorated as Queensland Day), Queen...
- Queensland - Wikipedia
The history of Queensland encompasses both a long Aboriginal Australian presence as well as the more recent periods of European colonisation and as a state of Australia. Before being charted and claimed for the Kingdom of Great Britain by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770, the coast of north-eastern Australia was explored by Dutch and ...
The Separation of Queensland was an event in 1859 in which the land that forms the present-day State of Queensland in Australia was excised from the Colony of New South Wales and created as a separate Colony of Queensland.
- 6 June 1859
- Desire for better representation
- Queensland
- Separation
Queensland también se convirtió en la primera colonia australiana en establecer su propio parlamento en lugar de pasar un tiempo como una colonia de la Corona. En 1865, se inauguró la primera línea ferroviaria en el estado, entre Ipswich y Grandchester.
The Territory of Papua comprised the southeastern quarter of the island of New Guinea from 1883 to 1975. In 1883, the Government of Queensland annexed this territory for the British Empire. [2] The United Kingdom Government refused to ratify the annexation but in 1884 a protectorate was proclaimed over the territory, then called ...
Historical Map of Australia, New Zealand & the Southwest Pacific (6 June 1859 - Colony of Queensland: Although there had been a call for northeastern Australia to be separated from New South Wales since the 1840s, debate raged over whether it should be a free or convict colony and where its southern border should lie.
