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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. [1] 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 French ...
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 Labor: 24 April 1957 12 August 1957 110 days 12. 20th Ted Theodore (1884–1950) Labor: Chillagoe (1912–1925) 22 October 1919 26 February 1925 5 years, 127 days 1920 1923 13. 17th William Kidston (1849–1919) Labor: Rockhampton (1932–1960) 19 January 1906 18 May 1907 1 year, 119 days: 4 years, 262 days 1907 1908 1909 Kidston: 18 ...
Pages in category "History of Queensland" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Queensland (locally / ˈ k w iː n z l æ n d / KWEENZ-land, commonly abbreviated as Qld) [note 1] is a state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
The history of power generation and distribution in Queensland can be considered in three major phases: Initial local generation and distribution; creation of a statewide body and the consequent creation of an extensive network; and the restructure to enable integration with the NEM.
The Royal Historical Society of Queensland (RHSQ) is a historical society founded in Brisbane, Australia in 1913.It promotes the study of Australian history especially that of Queensland and adjacent Pacific islands.
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.