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1888 Brisbane connected to Sydney by rail with break of gauge at Wallangarra. 1890 The Worker newspaper founded. 1892 The Catholic Age (later Catholic Leader) newspaper founded. 1893 Brisbane flood. 1894 Women's Equal Franchise Association founded. 1894 T.P. Lucas's novel Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000. 1895 The Gabba set aside as cricket ...
In 1896, the Brisbane river saw its worst maritime disaster with the capsize of the ferry Pearl, of the 80-100 people on board, only 40 survived. [ 39 ] A demonstration of electric lighting of lamp posts along Queen Street in 1882 was the first recorded use of electricity for public purposes in the world. [ 40 ]
Try dishing out some history from 100 years ago gathered by Joyce Harvey. ... a “Home Lighting Contest” began Oct. 2, 1924, and was held because “Statistics show that 25% of school children ...
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
The motto of the City of Brisbane is Meliora sequimur, Latin for We aim for better things. The council's corporate slogan is Dedicated to a better Brisbane. The city's colours are blue and gold. Its corporate logo was introduced in 1982 in preparation for the Commonwealth Games hosted in Brisbane that year. It features a stylised version of ...
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 ...
This time however the flood in the Brisbane River was largely from waters from the upper reaches of Brisbane River, rather than the Stanley River. [3] The 1893 floods caused 35 deaths. For the first flood, Crohamhurst recorded an all-time Australian record of 907 millimetres (35.7 in) of rain in a 24-hour period.
Aug. 17—100 Years Ago Aug. 17, 1923 In a bare whitewashed room, in Montevue Hospital, the county's poorhouse, with windows looking out on the vivid sunshine of a Frederick County fall day, and ...