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The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The name Brisbane is named to honour Sir Thomas Brisbane (1773–1860) who was Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825. [1] [2] When it was given its name and declared as a town in 1834, to replace its penal colony status, [3] Brisbane was still part of the Colony of New South Wales.
The broad outline for the process was established by the Land Ordinance of 1784 and the 1787 Northwest Ordinance, both of which predate the U.S. Constitution. The Admission to the Union Clause forbids the creation of new states from parts of existing states without the consent of all of the affected states and that of Congress.
1823 Guatemala (Federal Republic of Central America) 1841 Guatemala: Haiti: Captaincy General of Santo Domingo [14] [15] 1625 Saint-Domingue 1804 Haiti [14] [15] Honduras: Pre-Columbian Honduras: 1525 New Spain 1821 Honduras 1823 Honduras (Federal Republic of Central America) 1840 Honduras: Jamaica: Pre-Columbian Jamaica
This incident became known colloquially as the Battle of Brisbane. [97] Post-war Brisbane had developed a big country town stigma, an image the city's politicians and marketers were very keen to remove. [98] In the late 1950s, an anonymous poet known as The Brisbane Bard generated much attention to the city which helped shake this stigma.
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
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.
1894 T.P. Lucas's novel Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000. 1895 The Gabba set aside as cricket ground. 1895 Queensland Art Gallery established. 1896 Capsize of the ferry Pearl. 1896 Brisbane Public Library (now State Library) established. 1897 Electric trams introduced. 1899 Ministry of Anderson Dawson sworn in, the world's first Labour ...