Date Event
+15,000 y
ago Aborigines roamed Moreton Bay area
+12000-8000 Last ice age, then ice
melts, &Moreton Bay formed by rising sea level
1770 May
Cook names Morton Bay,
but does not enter
1799 July 14
Flinders in "Norfolk"
first European to enter Bay
1799 July 19
Flinders lands at
Coochie
1802
Flinders visits Moreton
Bay in "Investigator"
1803 August 31 Flinders
gets water from Point Lookout
1823
Pamphlett, Finnegan,
Parsons shipwrecked
1823
Oxley rescues
Pamphlett, Finnegan, & Parsons
1824
Oxley
names Peel's Island (name later shortened to Peel)
1824
Capt Miller Commandant Moreton Bay
convict settlement
1824 to 1825
Capt Bishop Commandant
Moreton Bay convict settlement
1824 September 13 First
convict settlement at Redcliffe
1825 April
John Gray surveys &
buouys South Passage
1825
Pilot station
established at Amity
1825 February settlement
at Redcliffe Point abandoned
1825 to 1830 Capt
Logan Commandant Moreton Bay convict settlement
1827
Allan Cunningham's
overland journey from Sydney
1827
convict hospital
erected Moreton bay settlement
1827
Governor Darling visits
Moreton Bay
1827
Convicts build rock
causeway at Dunwich
1827
Governor Darling names
Stradbroke Island.
1828 -29
Commissariat Stores
constructed
1827 July -
1830 John Tosh appointed first
Superintendent of Buoys and Pilot for Moreton Bay
1828
Chaplain's residence
erected Moreton Bay settlement
1828 September 18 Rev
John Vincent appt.Chaplain Moreton Bay settlement
1828
First settlement
established at Dunwich
1828
Military barracks
erected Moreton bay settlement
1828
Prisoners' barracks
erected Moreton bay settlement
1829
The windmill erected
Moreton Bay settlement
1829
Superintendent of
Convicts quarters erected Moreton Bay
1830
Convicts build stone
jetty at Cleveland Point
1830 – 32
James Nelson appointed Pilot for
Moreton Bay
1830 to 1835
Capt Clunie Commandant
Moreton Bay convict settlement
1830 s
Dr Dunmore Lang seeks
German Immigrants
1830
Female factory erected
Moreton Bay settlement
1831 November Capt.Clunie
recommends Dunwich closure
1831
Surgeon's quarters
erected Moreton bay settlement
1832 – 34
William Morris appointed Pilot
1832
convicts take
"Caledonia" at Amity Pilot Station
1832
Military Hospital
erected Moreton Bay settlement
1834 -
James Hexton appointed Pilot
1835 to 1837
Captain Fyans
Commandant Moreton Bay convict settlement
1837 to 1839
Major Cotton Commandant
Moreton Bay convict settlement
1837
Andrew Petrie appointed
Foreman of Works
1838
First German
Missionaries arrive in Queensland
1839 May-July
Lieutenant Gravatt
Commandant Moreton Bay convict settlement
1839 to 1840
Lieutenant Gorman
Commandant Moreton Bay convict settlement
1839
Penal settlement at
Moreton Bay closed
1840 October 19 first
drays brought over Cunningham's Gap
1840 s to 1880
Coochiemudlo known as
Innis Island
1840
First free settlers
arrive in Brisbane
1842 March
Sir George Gipps visits
Moreton Bay settlement
1842
Moreton Bay opened to
free settlers
1843 August 9
First land sale in
Brisbane
1843 - 1847
Catholic Mission at
Dunwich
1846 “Bramble” surveys
north entrance to Moreton Bay
1846 Brisbane declared a
Port of Entry
1846 July 20
Moreton Bay proclaimed
a warehousing port
1846
Schooner "Coolangatta"
wrecked
1846 June 29
First steamer between
Brisbane & Ipswich
1846
Remnants of Ngugi tribe
moved to Stradbroke
1846 June 20
Moreton Bay Courier
established
1847 June 23 Captain Frederick Freeman
appointed Harbour Master
1847
Alfred Winship erects
light on pole at Cleveland
1847
March 11
The "Sovereign" wrecked
South Passage bar
1848
Pilot Station moved
from Amity to Cowan
1848 to 1909
Pilot station at Bulwer
1848 December 13 First
Government emigrant ship "Artimesia" arrives Moreton Bay
1849 January 21 Migrant
ship "Fortitude" arrives Moreton Bay
1849 October 31 First
exile ship "Mount Stuart Elphinstone" arrives Moreton Bay
1849
Migrant ship "Lima"
arrives Moreton Bay
1849
Migrant ship "Chaseley"
arrives Moreton Bay
1849
Mission at Nundah ends
1849
Taylor Winship arrives
in Brisbane
1850
D.McConnell builds
Bulimba House
1850
First import of Chinese
Labour to Moreton Bay
1850 November 14 First
bank opened Moreton Bay colony
1850 August The
"Emigrant" quarantined at Dunwich
1850 s
Queensland gold rushes
1850 December
12 Cleveland township established
1850s
? Fernandez Gonzales settles
at Amity Point
1851 First wool shipped
Brisbane to London
1851 First Circuit Court
in Moreton Bay District
1851 August
4 James Warner surveys land at Cleveland
Point
1853 Francis Bigge
builds dwelling"Austend" at Cleveland
1853 October
31 "Countess of Derby" wrecked South Passage
1854 January
15 Brig "Courier" burnt off Cleveland Point
1854 January
29 First shipment of cotton from Brisbane
1855 William Pettigrew
establishes first steam saw mill Brisbane
1855 November
21 Brig "Venus" wrecked Freeman's Channel
1856 "Phoebe Dunbar"
runs aground near Amity
1858 Bay Historian,
Thomas Welsby born
1856 Cape Moreton lighthouse
constructed
1859 to
80s Bigges rents "Ostend" to
Government as lockup & courthouse
1859 Lytton township
established
1859 December
10 Queensland officially separated from NSW
1860 First Manly land
purchases (by W.D.White)
1860 November 13
First Manly land purchases (by Thomas Jones)
1861 First road surveyed
Brisbane to Sandgate
1861 Queensland Water
Police established
1861 April
11 First telegraph message sent
Brisbane to Ipswich
1862 The "Erin-Go-Bragh"
brings first Irish Immigrants
1862 Baxters Oyster
Saloon patronised by Governor Bowen
1862 First telegraph
link Brisbane & Sydney
1862 May
31 First land sales Redcliffe
agricultural reserve
1862 Capt Louis Hope
crushes sugar at Ormiston
1863 Capt Hope imports
Kanakas for cotton
1863 land sales at
Bulwer
1863 Robert Towns starts
Kanaka labour (blackbirding)
1864 Wooden lighthouse
constructed at Cleveland Point
1864 "Walrus" built by
Taylor Winship, Cleveland Point
1864 Dunwich quarantine
station officially closed
1864 John Watson starts
Bulimba Ferry service
1864 September
9 First sugar from Capt Hope's Ormiston mill
1864 July
25 Redcliffe & Scarborough land
surveys
1864 August
8 Telegraph Station opened at Dunwich
1864
May Dunwich Benevolent Asylum
established
1864 Cable Cleveland -
Dunwich-Cape Moreton
1864 Mar
24 Woody Point land survey completed
1864 December
1 great fire of Brisbane
1864 Crouch Bros begin
fishing Moreton Bay
1864 Lota House built
for William Duckett White
1865
approx loggers float rafts from
Tweed to Brisbane
1865 July
31 First Queensland railway from
Ipswich to Grandchester opened
1865 November
29 First gaslight in Brisbane
1865 October
7 company formed to construct Sandgate
pier
1865 to
1874 periodic ships quarantine at
Peel Island
1865 Cleveland Point
jetty constructed (running east)
1865 Dunwich reopened
for quarantine emergency
1865 pigs,goats,horses
released Moreton Island
1866 William Street
Immigration Depot opened
1866 Pastor Haussmann
opens first school in Beenleigh
1866 Quarantine station
built on St Helena
1866 Quarantine station
opened at St Helena
1866 Benevolent Asylum
established at Dunwich
1867 St Helena declared
a prison
1867 Dunwich Benevolent
Asylum officially opened
1868 John Willes buys
salt works Russell Island
1870 Humpybong
progresses as seaside resort
1870 First ferry across
Logan River
1870
s German warship "Gazelle"
quarantined Peel Island
1871 Agricultural
Society votes for Kanaka labour
1872 October
23 First cable message from Brisbane to
London
1872 Sandgate Baptist
Church constructed
1872 October
28 Post Office in Brisbane completed
1872 May
31 "Young Australia" wrecked North
Point
1873 "Lammershagen"
quarantined at Peel Island
1873 Brisbane River
floods
1873 Signal & telegraph
Station opened South Passage
1873 Queensland's first
Health Act passed
1873 Dr Challinor
appointed Health Officer, Port of Brisbane
1873 "Friedeburg"
quarantined at Peel Island
1874 Moreton Bay divided
into oyster leases
1874 June
15 Victoria Bridge opened
1874 to
1912 quarantine station transferred
to Peel Island
1875 June
14 Railway Brisbane to Ipswich opened
1875 First land sales at
Southport
1875 March
18 Barque "St.Magnus" founders off Cape
Moreton
1876 to
1877 Wharf built at Doughboy Creek
1876 school at
Woongoolba opened
1876 January
13 Tender for South Brisbane graving dock
let
1876 Cape Moreton
Provisional School established
1877 Sir William Jervois
selects Lytton as site for fort
1877 "Charles Dickens"
quarantined at Peel Island
1877 to
1963 Moreton Bay Oyster Company in
operation
1877 Government wharf at
Petrie Bight opened
1877 May
13 Great tidal wave on Australian
coast
1877 "Windsor Castle"
quarantined at Peel Island
1878 Signal & telegraph
Station opened at Bulwer
1878 Bay View Hotel,
Scarborough constructed
1878 "Western Monarch"
quarantined at Peel Island
1878 "Lammershagen"
quarantined at Peel Island
1878 "Friedeburg"
quarantined at Peel Island
1878 Carl Heck
establishes sugar mill at Rocky Point
1879 Electric telegraph
installed at St Helena
1879 August
30 Floods wash Victoria Baths down
Brisbane. River
1879 Steamer "Norseman"
starts visits to Woody Point
1879 Boys Reformitory
established at Signal Hill
1879 "Normanby"
quarantined at Peel Island
1879 Red Cedar logging
Blackall Ranges
1879 "Clara" quarantined
at Peel Island
1880
s Redcliffe land boom
1880 Reg.Roe builds
first Roe's Kamp Stradbroke Island
1880 Redcliffe Hotel
constructed
1880
s Daniel Colburn cattle
grazing on Coochie
1880 s to
1900 timber cutting at Coochie
1880 February
3 First Queensland frozen meat arr.ives
London on "Strathleven"
1880
s J.Meyer establishes ferry
across Nerang River
1881
October Woody Point to Reef Point road
constructed
1881 to
1890 Campbellville Township Coochin
Creek
1881 April
13 SS"Merkara" first direct mail
steamer from London arrives Brisbane
1881 September 10
South Brisbane Graving Dock opened
1881 Woody Point jetty
constructed
1882 "Southesk"
quarantined at Peel Island
1882 May
11 Brisbane to Sandgate railway
opened
1882 Manly Beach Estate
auctioned
1882 Old Pile Light
begins operation
1882
November “President" starts Brisbane to
Southport service
1882 August
21 Arnold brothers buy Wyvenleigh
1882
August ferry service to Woody Point
established
1882
-83 Sandgate Pier constructed
1882 Redcliffe &
Sandgate Steam Ferry Co established
1882 The "Arakoon" runs
Sandgate-Woody Point
1883 to
1890 The "Mavis" takes timber Coochin
Ck/Brisbane
1883 October
8 Bridge over Humpybong Creek
constructed
1883-84 Sandgate Pier
extended 300 feet
1883 August
27 Krakatoa (volcano) erupts off Java
1883 August
27+ wave of water sweeps down Moreton Bay
1883 "Mavis" weekly to
Woody Pt, Scarborough. & Bribie
1883 April
9 Electric light installed Government
Printing Office
1883 "Western Monarch"
quarantined at Peel Island
1883
-84 The "Redcliffe" runs
Sandgate-Woody Point
1883
October "Pearl" between Woody Point &
Sandgate
1883 September 22
First steam ferry for Brisbane River launched
1883 May
24 St Leonards Hotel, Woody Point
opened
1883 First Burleigh
Heads Hotel erected
1883 The "Bribie"
carries cargo Brisbane/Caloundra
1884
August Redcliffe jetty construction
started
1884 February
27 First overseas shipment of frozen beef on
"Dorunda"
1884 Amity Point Reserve
set aside
1884 February
17 Steam ferry punt "Transit" starts Kangaroo
Point
1884
September "Garnet" begins Brisbane to
Humpybong
1884 Amity Point Reserve
established
1884 "Lucinda" built by
Dennys, Scotland
1884 The "Redcliffe"
sold to W.B.Brown
1884 The "Redcliffe"
renamed "Redland Bay"
1884 "Redland Bay"
begins service to Redland Bay
1884 October
21 Brisbane Steamship Company formed
1884 May
24 First Humpybong Regatta
1884 "Shannon"
quarantined at Peel Island
1885 Railway between
Yerongpilly & Beenleigh
1885 First land surveys
Wynnum
1885
April Russian War scare. Brisbane
River fortified
1885 Disinfecting
apparatus constructed at Peel Island
1885 Royal Queensland
Yacht Squadron established
1885 St Helena tramway
commences operation
1885 Coochie's first
land survey
1885 "Gayundah" arrives
Brisbane
1885 April
8 First section Logan Railway opened
1885 July
17 First meeting Cleveland
Divisional Board at "Ostend"
1885 July
25 Railway to Beenleigh opened
1885 "Natone" starts
Brisbane to Southport
1885 "Dorunda"
quarantined at Peel Island
1885 October
9 First direct Qld sugar to London on
"Merkard"
1885 August
26 Redcliffe jetty completed
1885 May
7 Government steamer "Lucinda"
arrives in Brisbane
1885 Brisbane Sailing
Club established
1885 Kangaroo Point
Immigration Depot completed
1886 Grand Hotel erected
at Southport
1886 Dunwich jetty
extended for "Otter"
1886 First land sales at
Amity
1887 "Merkara"
quarantined at Peel Island
1887 Capt.John Burke
founds shipping Co
1887 First land sales at
Bribie
1887 The "Scottish
Prince" wrecked
1887 January
19 Barque "George R.Crowe" burnt Brisbane
River
1887 Cleveland Point
jetty constructed (running west)
1888 to
1904 Second Burleigh Heads Hotel in
operation
1888 J.Meyer establishes
Main Beach Hotel
1888 January
24 First Crown Land sales at Coochiemudlo
1888 to
92 Kianawah Divisional Board in
operation
1889 Pimpama Island
State School opened
1889 July
25 Beenleigh-Southport railway opens
1889 March
7 "Natone" to Redcliffe and Woody Pt
from Brisbane
1889 July
16 Barque "Gerd Heye" wrecked off
Moreton Island
1889 November 1
Railway to Cleveland opened
1890 Stradbroke
aborigines moved to Bribie
1890 November 11
"Kate" run down near old Pile Light
1890
February railway Caboolture to
Landsborough
1890 March
10 Brisbane River floods
1890 James Campbell &
Sons move to Albion
1891 James Quigley
isolated with leprosy at Dunwich
1891 March
27-9 Australian Constitution drawn up on
"Lucinda" Hawksbury River
1891 December
3 Brisbane Steamship Co now Humpybong SS Co
1891 to
1893 Economic depression in
Queensland
1892 to
1902 Wynnum Divisional Board in
operation
1892 John Hargreaves
establishes jam factory at Manly
1892 Lazarets opened at
Friday Is & Dunwich
1892 Queensland Leprosy
Act proclaimed
1892 Bribie aborigines
moved to Moongalba
1892 April
4 Schooner "Bellinger" driven ashore
Swan Bay
1893
? Cell Block at Peel Island
completed
1893
? Stone jetty at Peel
Island completed
1893 Feb
13 second flood in Brisbane River
1893 First Caloundra
light house built
1893 Main Beach Hotel
burnt down
1893 February
5 Indooroopilly rail bridge washed away
1893 February
6 Victoria bridge washed away
1893 February
4 Brisbane River floods (great damage)
1893 February
1 The "Dicky" wrecked at Caloundra
1893 February
17 third flood in Brisbane
1894 February
24 Barque "Aarhus" wrecked Smith's Rocks
1894 "Cambus Wallace"
wrecked (Jumpinpin)
1894 March
14 Schooner "Grace Darling" wrecked
Bulwer
1895 July
19 new Indooroopilly rail bridge
opened
1896 Dunwich Victoria
Hall opened
1896 Bribie light houses
built
1896 January
13 Ferry "Pearl" capsizes in Brisbane River
1896 October
1 downstream half of Victoria bridge
opened
1896 Second Caloundra
light house built
1896 August
6 First electric tram landed in Brisbane
1897 Sandgate's "Gordon
Sailing Club" established
1897 December 20
steamer "Mystery" wrecked Southport Bar
1897 Norman Wright & son
set up camp on Coochie
1897 to
1900 Norman Wright & son, Norman,
farm Coochie
1897 May
1 Sandgate to Shorncliffe railway
extension
1898 Main Beach Hotel
rebuilt
1898 to
1914 two mullet factories at Bribie
1898 Third Caloundra
light house built
1898 Jumpinpin
breakthrough
1899 Bubonic plague
victims interred Gibson Island
1899 November 1
First Queensland contingent leaves for Boer War
1900 August
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