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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 ...
Mary McConnel (right) with her husband, David. Mary MacLeod McConnel (4 January 1824 – 4 January 1910) was a Scottish settler in the Australian colony of Queensland, who founded Brisbane's first children's hospital in 1878; it became the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane in 1883.
The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia , inhabited by the Picti , whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall .
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. ...
This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of Australia by Scottish emigrants or explorers Main article: Scottish place names in other countries This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
This is a timeline of Scottish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Scotland and its predecessor states. See also Timeline of prehistoric Scotland . To read about the background to many of these events, see History of Scotland .
The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland's cultural heritage. Kilcoy Homestead is significant because it is a rare, well-preserved, substantial, late 1850s brick homestead, illustrating a class of buildings which were rare in Queensland at the time of construction, and are even more rare now. [1]
Scottish history stubs (3 C, 462 P) Pages in category "History of Scotland" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.