| About 30,000 years ago |
|
First Aboriginal people in region at Stradbroke
Island (Wallen Wallen is about 20,000 years ago (as indicated
by current archaelogical reports) |
| About 10,000 years ago |
Lower sea levels resulting from ice age |
| About 6,000 years ago |
Sea levels rise as ice ends and flood Moreton
Bay |
| About 3,400 years ago |
Sea levels reach maximum height, covering Nudgee
Waterhole area |
| 1770 |
James Cook in Endeavour sails past Moreton Island |
| 1799 |
Matthew Flinders in Norfolk explores
Moreton Bay |
| 1823 |
Thomas Pamphlet, John Finnegan and Richard Parsons
shipwrecked on Moreton Island |
| 1823 |
John Oxley lands at Redcliffe Point and looked
after by local Aborigines |
| 1825 |
Brisbane founded as penal settlement |
| 1838 |
German mission established at Zion's Hill (Nundah)
and abandoned 11 years later |
| 1860 |
Last corroboree danced at Nudgee |
| 1865 |
1865 Ownership of Nudgee lands transferred to
Bishop O'Quinn |
| 1866 |
1866 Toombul winery established by the Child's
family |
| 1869 |
St Vincent's orphanage established. In the 20th
Century some Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation
were sent here. |
| 1874 |
Nudgee provincial school opened |
| 1881 |
Nudgee Waterholes site declared a temporary reserve
for water |
| 1870 |
1870 Reported corroboree held in Kedron Brook
area |
| 1897 |
The Queensland Aboriginals' Protection and Restriction
of Sale of Opium Act established reserves and provides for the
appointment of protectors.
Europeans are permitted to employ Aborigines but Chinese people
are not. |
| c.1904 |
Nudgee Waterholes used as gravel reserve |
| 1912 |
Cattle dip reserve established adjacent to the
waterhole |
| 1918 |
Nudgee Waterholes declared a recreation and water
reserve |
| 1922 |
Gravel reserve closed and bora ring fenced |
| 1967 |
1967 The Commonwealth Referendum passes. This
ends constitutional discrimination and all Aboriginal people
are now counted in the national census. |
| 1986 |
Nudgee Bora ring registered with the National
Estate |
| 2001 |
2001 Brisbane City Council undertakes
rehabilitation of Nudgee Waterholes, and the Nudgee Indigenous
Reference Group (NIRG) is formed |
