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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.
Brisbane has a number of heritage buildings, some of which date back to the 1820s, including The Old Windmill in Wickham Park, built by convict labour in 1824, [141] which is the oldest surviving building in Brisbane, and the Commissariat Store on William Street, built by convict labour in 1828, which was originally used as a grain house, and ...
Son John Petrie becomes Brisbane's first mayor; other son Tom writes sympathetically about local Indigenous people. 1838 at "Zion" (present day Nundah), the first permanent free European settlement was established 8km north of Brisbane by German Moravian missionaries who sought to educate the local Aboriginal people.
In 1810 he was the first ex-convict to be appointed as magistrate. James Hardy Vaux – author of Australia's first full-length autobiography and dictionary. Mary Wade – one of the youngest female convict transported to Australia (13 years of age) who had 21 children and at the time of her death had over 300 living descendants.
It was merged with Fitzroy to become the Brisbane Lions in 1997. 1987 saw Brisbane host games of the first ever Rugby World Cup. Expo '88 was held in Brisbane in 1988 to celebrate the Bicentenary of the First fleet founding the colony of Australia. The event was very successful and helped promote Brisbane and Queensland on the world stage.
Map of Borough of Brisbane and adjacent local government areas, March 1902. The Municipality of Brisbane was gazetted on 25 May 1859 and proclaimed by the Governor of New South Wales on 7 September 1859. The first local government area in Queensland, Brisbane was the only one incorporated prior to the establishment of Queensland as a separate ...
In 1905 women voted in state elections for the first time. The state's first university, the University of Queensland, was established in Brisbane in 1909. In 1911, the first alternative treatments for polio were pioneered in Queensland and remain in use across the world today. [50] World War I had a major impact on Queensland. Over 58,000 ...
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