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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.
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 Moreton Bay penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe as a place for secondary offenders from the Sydney colony, but in May 1825 moved to North Quay on the banks of the Brisbane River, so named for British army general and Governor of New South Wales Sir Thomas Brisbane. German Lutherans established the first free settlement of Zion ...
United States: Founded by a group led by William Houlton and John King. 1654: Pelham: New York: United States: Founded by Thomas Pell, who purchased 9,000 acres (14 sq mi) from the Siwanoy tribe and received a land grant from the English crown. 1655: Cap-Saint-Ignace: Quebec: Canada [24] 1655: Chelmsford: Massachusetts: United States: Founded ...
Brisbane City Hall. Brisbane (pron. / ˈ b r ɪ z b eɪ n / BRIZ-bayn) is a small city in San Mateo County, California, located on the lower slopes of the San Bruno Mountain.The city is on the northeastern edge of San Mateo County, located immediately south of the San Francisco city limits on the San Francisco Bay.
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 ...
Returned World War II soldiers march in Queen Street, Brisbane, 1944. 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.
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.