Edenglassie was the name first bestowed on the growing town by Chief Justice Francis Forbes, a combination of the two Scottish cities Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The name fell out of favour and the settlement renamed in honour of Governor Thomas Brisbane who was then Governor of NSW (early map of NSW, Australia in 1825).

The General Post Office in Queen Street.

The Female Factory was built in 1829 on the site of today's General Post Office in Queen Street. Letters from officials back in the day referred to the necessity of enclosing the Female Factory behind a wall for security reasons.  Not so much to prevent women from breaking out of prison, but to prevent men breaking in.

Originally the neighbouring city of Ipswich was intended to be the capital of Queensland, but it proved to be too far inland to allow access by large ships, so Brisbane was chosen instead.

All of the Above

Although originally built as a Windmill for grinding grain, the wind was not strong enough to fulfill this function.

A Treadmill was then attached to the windmill and was used as a means to grind grain, and in addition, to act as a punishment of misbehaving convicts.  Punishment for relatively minor offences meant a convict might receive a flogging of 25 lashes or a 14-hour stretch on the Treadmill.

The Old Windmill is only occasionally open to visitors and is rumoured to be haunted.

14 Years.

On 08 January 1826, John Baker escaped the settlement, and took his chances in the bush. Nearing death with starvation and exposure, a group of Indigenous people at the Upper Brisbane region found him, and recognised him as one of their own returned from the dead. He was welcomed and accepted into the group, who saved his life.

From January 1826 until August 1840, Boraltchou lived as an indigenous man before finally surrendering to the Commandant at Moreton Bay not long after the convict settlement had been decommissioned.

Patrick Logan was a very unpopular Commandant and was believed murdered on an expedition into bushland in 1830.  Several theories about his death range from accidental death, to native attacks, to being murdered by the convicts that accompanied his expedition.

Logan was remembered as a brutal commandant, and the convicts manifested insane joy at the news of his murder and sang and hoorayed all night long, in defiance of the warders.

His death also let to a rendition of the folksong The Convicts Lament (aka Moreton Bay Song).

Frog's Hollow.

A creek used to pass through this swampy area joining the Brisbane River in the vicinity of the intersection of Alice Street and Edward Street.

Due to the periodic flooding, rents were cheap leading to the development of Brisbane's first red light district.

St Helena islands was originally used as a prison, and is now a national park. Local Australian Aborigines called the island Noogoon but it was renamed St Helena after an aboriginal named Napoleon was exiled there in 1827.

1860; Brisbane(and Queensland's) first Parliament was founded 22 May 1860, less than a year after the Colony of Queensland was created in June 1859 (formally separating the region from the NSW colony).  It was convened at military and convict barracks converted for the purpose located on Queen Street, Brisbane.

The Old Windmill.

In July 1841, a public execution of two men took place that had been convicted of the murder of members of a surveying party on 31 May 1840.  There is a high likelihood that the men were innocent of the crime they were accused of.

Executions also took place in front of the General Post Office in the 1840s and 1850s before the authorities ended the spectacle of public executions.

The Bread and Blood Riot of 1866.

The Riot Act was passed in 1714 and was an Act from the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised local authorities to declare any group of 12 or more people to be unlawfully assembled and to disperse or face punishment.

On the night of 11 September 1866 a crowd of more than 400 hungry men rioted reportedly shouting ‘Bread or blood’.  They were victims of the collapse of the British banking system.  Armed with stones, they headed towards the Commissariat Store in William Street to express their anger.

Hundreds of government officials were sworn in as special constables by Brisbane Police Magistrate Hugh Massie. The end to the protest came when a police baton charge pushed the mob back into Elizabeth Street. Magistrate Massie had to read the Riot Act twice before the crowd dispersed.

That's the end of the quiz. Time to find out how you went!!

You finished with a score of {youScored} out of 14.5

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You finished with a score of {youScored} out of 14.5

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You finished with a score of {youScored}  out of 14.5

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You finished with a score of {youScored} out of 14.5

Perfect! How did you manage that?  Pure 100% Brisbane-ite/Brisvegas blood runs through your veins.  Perhaps you are Brisbane Royalty?  Thanks for sampling this quiz, and stay tuned for more quizzes to come. :-)

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