Significant Queensland Events 1881 to 1900
Events depicted here are meant only to capture a time relationship of general Queensland history with surveying and mapping events of the same time period portrayed on this site.
1880
Sugar cane was introduced in Queensland, specifically to the Innisfail area.
1881
A census declared Queensland had a population of 213,525 people.
1883
Alfred Thomas Bushell established a tea business in Brisbane.
1884
Kanaka labourers arrived in North Queensland.
1889
Queensland produced the most gold of all the states in the colony.
1892
Jack Howe established a world sheep shearing record near Blackall using manual shears. He sheared 321 sheep in a normal working day (8 hours 40 mins).
1893
South-east Queensland was devastated by three concurrent cyclones.
1895
The colony standardised its time to ten hours ahead of Greenwich.
1897
Electric trams first operated in Brisbane.
1900
The estimated poulation of the Queensland colony was nearly 494,000.
Last updated: 26 November 2007