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    The Colony of Tasmania (more commonly referred to simply as "Tasmania") was a British colony that existed on the island of Tasmania from 1856 until 1901...
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    Constitution of Tasmania was enacted, and the following year the colony formally changed its name to Tasmania. In 1901 it became a state of Australia through...
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    1856 – Van Diemen's Land is renamed the colony of Tasmania. Norfolk Island becomes the independent colony of Norfolk Island, however it is to be administered...
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    The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the monarch, currently King Charles III. The incumbent governor is...
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    establishment of permanent British sovereign possession of the lands of Tasmania. Tasmania was granted responsible self-government in 1856, but the colony did not...
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    Van Diemen's Land (category Colonial history of Tasmania)
    Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century...
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    colonies of the British Empire on the continent of Australia were the penal colony of New South Wales, founded in 1788, and the Swan River Colony (later...
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  • Alec Campbell (category Colony of Tasmania people)
    model Ruby Rose. Alec Campbell was born in Launceston, Colony of Tasmania, British Empire, the son of Marian Isobel (Thrower) and Samuel Alexander Campbell...
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  • colonies of New South Wales (1788–1901), Van Diemen's Land (1825–1856), Tasmania (1856–1901), Victoria (1851–1901), Swan River (1829–1832), Western Australia...
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    of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of the...
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    example of King's Lomatia (Lomatia tasmanica) found growing in the wild is a clonal colony in Tasmania estimated to be 43,600 years old. A group of 47,000...
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  • The Tasmania men's cricket team, nicknamed the Tigers, represents the Australian state of Tasmania in cricket. They compete annually in the Australian...
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  • RBL 40-pounder Armstrong gun (category Naval guns of the United Kingdom)
    into the defence of Australian colonies following the withdrawal of British troops, the Launceston Volunteer Artillery Corps in Tasmania acquired two guns...
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    greatest extent, the colony of New South Wales included the present-day Australian states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia...
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  • up Tasmania in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tasmania is an island state, south of the Australian mainland. Tasmania may also refer to: Colony of Tasmania...
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    man, known for being the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal man in the colony of Tasmania. Lanne is believed to have been born around 1835. In 1842 he was the...
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  • legislation in the United Kingdom, in the Republic of Ireland, in Hong Kong, in New Zealand, in Tasmania, in Jamaica, and in Antigua and Barbuda, relating...
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    This is a gallery of national flags of Oceania. Flags of cities with over 1 million inhabitants. Flag of Adelaide, South Australia Flag of Auckland, New Zealand...
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    Amy Bock (category Colony of Tasmania people)
    Parkinson in Hobart, Tasmania, on 18 May 1859. Two or three of her four grandparents were transported convicts, with the exception of her maternal grandmother...
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  • list of people executed in Van Diemen's Land (1803-1856), the Colony of Tasmania (1856-1901) and since 1901, the federated island state of Tasmania, Australia...
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    The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or...
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  • 1887 Colonial Conference (category Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria)
    were Newfoundland Colony, Canada, Colony of New South Wales, Colony of Tasmania, Cape of Good Hope, South Australia, the Colony of New Zealand, Victoria...
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    time Tasmania approved the bill with an even greater majority of 94%. When the Federal Constitution was enacted on New Year's Day 1901, the Colony of Tasmania...
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    Clara Stone (category Colony of Tasmania people)
    Melbourne Australia, who was one of the founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital and she was a co-founder, and the first president, of the Victorian Medical Women's...
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  • The history of Tasmania begins at the end of the Last Glacial Period (approximately 12,000 years ago) when it is believed that the island was joined to...
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  • of newspapers published in Tasmania in Australia through its history. From the founding as Van Dieman's Land, through the establishment of the Colony...
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  • Alicia O'Shea Petersen (category Colony of Tasmania people)
    Parliament of Tasmania and the first woman to stand for a Tasmanian seat in the Parliament of Australia. Alicia Teresa Jane McShane was born in Tasmania to Hugh...
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    A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire...
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    Henry Young (category Colony of Tasmania people)
    term as Governor of Van Diemens Land was significant, because in 1856 the Island colony received self-government, and was renamed Tasmania to mark the fact...
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  • Henry Lovett (category Colony of Tasmania people)
    an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1877. List of Tasmanian representative cricketers "Australia Players by Alphabet"...
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