Old Qld Poetry Timeline

Old Queensland Poetry Timeline
This is a broad guide to the major political and social events in the 100 years in Queensland following separation from NSW, and some of the events in Queensland poetry that accompanied them.
Political and social events	Year	Literary events	*Moreton* *Bay* Settlement, 1835 [1]
Qld (white pop 23,500) separates from NSW	1859	Chubb, Ode to governor Bowen
Robert Herbert 1st premier	*1860*
*Brisbane Courier* founded (formerly Moreton Bay Courier)	1861
	1862
First Kanaka labour	1863
	1864
	1865	*AG Stephens (Bulletin Red Page)* born**
*The Queenslander* published (1866-1939)	1866	James Brunton Stephens arrives in Qld.	Kanaka Labourers, Herbert River*
Gold rush at Gympie	1867
	1868
	1869	TB Christie, Poems and Songs, Forbes, Voices from the Bush
Free education introduced	*1870*	Vowles, Sunbeams in Queensland
	1871	Brunton Stephens, Convict Once
Adult white male suffrage, Brisbane Telegraph	1872	Mabel Forrest born.
Palmer River Gold Rush	1873	Midgley, Helen Young	James Nash found Gympie gold*
	1874
Compulsory education, leaving age 12	1875	Alice Guerin Crist born
	1876
	1877	*Brunton Stephens, Dominion of Australia,* O'Doherty, Poems**
	1878
	1879		Alice Guerin Crist*				*Eva O’Doherty*
Sugar Cane introduced to Innisfail	*1880*
	1881	Chubb, Fugitive Pieces
	1882	Brian Vrepont born
Population 250,000, Sir Samuel Griffith Premier(1883-88)	1883	G. Essex Evans arrives in Australia, William Baylebridge born
	1884
NSW sends troops to the Sudan	1885	Foott, Where the Pelican Builds
Electricity connected, Parliament House	1886
	1887	Alice Gore-Jones born
	1888	Dunn, Autumn Leaves
	1889		Sir Samuel Griffith: Premier, Judge, Poet*
First Federation Conference	*1890*	Zora Cross, James Devaney born
Great Shearer's strike, Labour Party founded	1891	Essex Evans, Repentance of Magdalene Despar
Preferential voting introduced in Qld	1892
Major flooding in Brisbane	1893	Maurice Little born
	1894	*Knight, One People, One Destiny,* Paul Grano born**
	1895	Kenna, Songs of a Season
AG Stephens founds Bulletin Red Page, Brisbane’s 1^st cinema opens	1896	Paula Fitzgerald born
Aboriginal Protection Act	1897	Bayldon,Poems	*John Knight*		*Francis Kenna*
	1898	*Samuel Griffith Two Stories from Dante,* Colin Bingham born**
Dawson Premier, 1st Labour Government (6 days)	1899	E.M. England born
Bubonic Plague at Townsville	*1900*
Federation, Qld pop 500,000, White Australia Policy	1901	*MoynihanThe* Feast of the Bunya**
Brisbane proclaimed a city	1902	Brunton Stephens dies, Mathew, Australian Echoes
Samuel Griffith, First Chief Justice, High Court	1903
Cherbourg Aboriginal community established	1904	Edgar Holt born	Federation Day, Townsville, 1901*
Female suffrage	1905	*Favenc, Voices of the Desert,* Martin Haley born**
	1906
Kanakas cease to be imported.	1907
	1908	Blocksidge (Baylebridge), Songs o' the South
Valleys win 1st Brisbane Rugby league premiership	1909	*Forrest, Alpha* Centauri, Essex Evans dies**
	*1910*	Frank C. Francis moves to Queensland
University of Queensland established	1911	CB Christesen (Meanjin) born
School leaving age raised to 14	1912	JJ Stable appointed to University of Queensland
	1913	John Blight born	*Mabel Forrest*		*Geo. Essex Evans*
World War 1 (1914-1918)	1914	Coungeau, Stella Australis
Gallipoli, State Labor Gov't (1915-29)	1915	Mona Brand born
Conscription Referenda (1916 and 1917)	1916	*Cross, A Song of Mother Love,* June Saunders born**
Electric lighting to Brisbane Streets	1917	Gore Jones Troop Trains
Armistice	1918	Garry Lyle born
Spanish influenza outbreak	1919	Austen, The Young Gods, Rabbets, Whimplin Whimsies
Qantas est'd, first flights Charleville-Cloncurry	*1920*	Gwen Harwood born	Recruitment Parade, Rockhampton, First World War*
	1921	QueenslandAuthors and Artists Ass'n founded, Peter Miles born
Qld abolishes upper house and capital punishment!	1922	James Devaney arrives in Queensland
Silver and lead discovered at Mt Isa	1923	Bulcock, Jacaranda Blooms Little, Poems and Sonnet
	1924	Stable and Kirwood, A Book of Queensland Verse, O'Neil, Dinkum Aussie
Brisbane City C'cil est'd, 1st Qld Radio Station	1925	Bingham, Marcinelle
Queensland enters Sheffield Shield	1926
	1927	Crist, When Rody came to Ironbark, England, The Happy Monarch
First cricket test in Brisbane, Bert Hinkler solo flight	1928		Bert Hinkler arrives at Bundaberg*	Emily Bulcock*
Great depression, Moore (C'try Party) Premier (-32)	1929	Peter Porter born
	*1930*	Devaney, Earth Kindred, Kellow, Queensland Poets
	1931
Labor in power (1932-57)	1932	Holt, Lilacs out of the Dead Land
*Courier Mail* established	1933
Experimental TV broadcast, Brisbane/Ipswich	1934	David Malouf born
Cane Toad introduced	1935	Sweeney, Original Verse	Experimental TV broadcast, Brisbane*
	1936	Catholic Poetry Society, Lack, Fields of Amaranth
	1937
Queensland population 1,000,000	1938
World War II (1939-1945)	1939	O'Dwyer **Poems, Saunders, June**
Story Bridge opens, Brisbane	*1940*	Meanjin Papers founded (CB Christesen)
	1941	Fitzgerald, The Singing Tree
US forces arrive in Brisbane, Battle of Brisbane	1942
	1943	*Truebridge (Vrepont), Beyond the Claw, Barjai, (1943-7)*	Clem Lack*			*June Saunders*
Fred Patterson (Communist) elected to Parliament	1944	Judith Wright moves to Queensland
Peace with Germany, Japan	1945	*Blight, The Old Pianist,* Grano, Poems Old and New
	1946	Wright, The Moving Image
Joh Bjelke Peterson elected to Parliament.	1947	Vallis, Songs of the East Coast
Violent railway strikes	1948	Manifold, Selected Verse
	1949	Kennedy, Cyclone	Building an air raid shelter, Brisbane 1942*
Australian Troops to Korea (1950-1953)	*1950*
	1951
	1952
	1953	Picot, With a Hawk's Quill, Hornibrook, Bibliography
Petrov affair	1954	Rowbotham, Ploughman and Poet
Bauxite discovered at Weipa	1955		Police confront striking rail workers, 1948*
	1956
Labor party split, Coalition Government (1957-1989)	1957	Collinson, The Moods of Love
	1958
Wally Lewis born, Television begins in Brisbane	1959	Byrnes and Vallis, Qld Centenary Anthology
Queensland population 1,500,000	1960
*Copyright © Old Qld Poetry, 2012*			Victor Kennedy*			Peter Miles*

[1]Images marked with * courtesy State Library of Queensland, all others from author’s collection.

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