{"slug": "brisbane", "label": "Brisbane", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34932", "qid": "Q34932", "description": "capital city of Queensland, Australia", "entries": 19, "years": 14, "span": [1824, 1995], "span_label": ["1824 CE", "1995 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 6}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Brisbane, Queensland"], "related": [{"slug": "queensland", "label": "Queensland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "may", "label": "May", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "san-francisco", "label": "San Francisco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "australian-labor-party", "label": "Australian Labor Party", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-south-wales", "label": "New South Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crown-colony", "label": "Crown colony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sydney", "label": "Sydney", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pacific-ocean", "label": "Pacific Ocean", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fiji", "label": "Fiji", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 12", "text": "12 September – Lieutenant Henry Miller is formally appointed to establish a penal colony at Moreton Bay resulting in the founding of Brisbane on the Brisbane River (Miller had arrived in Moreton Bay a couple of months prior to the formal appointment)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374055343#Exploration_and_settlement", "title": "1824 in Australia", "revid": 1374055343, "section": "Exploration and settlement"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – With his crew and 29 convicts aboard the Amity, John Oxley arrives at and founds the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement at what becomes Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia, after leaving Sydney.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359333471#July–September", "title": "1824", "revid": 1359333471, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 28", "text": "28 September – John Oxley recommends a new settlement be founded at Brisbane after finding Moreton Bay unsuitable.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374055343#Exploration_and_settlement", "title": "1824 in Australia", "revid": 1374055343, "section": "Exploration and settlement"}}, {"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May", "text": "May – History of Brisbane: The Australian city of Brisbane is founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#April–June", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 6", "text": "June 6 – The British Crown colony of Queensland in Australia is created, by devolving part of the territory of New South Wales (Queensland Day). Brisbane is declared the capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#April–June", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Brisbane Grammar School is founded, providing the opportunity for secondary education for the first time in the colony of Brisbane in Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#Date_unknown", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 5", "text": "5 July – The completion of a railway bridge across the Brisbane River links Brisbane and Ipswich, Queensland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352603456#Events", "title": "1876 in Australia", "revid": 1352603456, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of 465 mm (a record for any Australian capital city).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#January", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 21", "text": "21 January – Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332166842#Events", "title": "1887 in Australia", "revid": 1332166842, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 29", "text": "June 29 – The United Retail Federation is established in Brisbane, Australia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#June", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1902, "year_label": "1902 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 17", "text": "17 September – Opera singer Nellie Melba arrives in Brisbane for her first Australian tour after 16 years in Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1284883714#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1902 in Australia", "revid": 1284883714, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1903, "year_label": "1903 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 18", "text": "18 December – The first train runs from Rockhampton to Brisbane.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294005359#Events", "title": "1903 in Australia", "revid": 1294005359, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew complete the first flight across the Pacific Ocean, from the mainland United States to Australia, in the Fokker F.VII aircraft Southern Cross. 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