Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801 - 1875) First Lieutenant Governor of Victoria
Victoria was proclaimed as a colony separate from New South Wales on 1 July 1851.
When the Port Phillip district of New South Wales was separated as a separate colony in 1851 it was called after Queen Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom, whose colony it was.
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No one discovered Victoria, it was once part of New South Wales. It became a separate colony around the time of the Victorian Gold Rush.
Victoria and New South Wales were formally separated by Queen Victoria in 1851. By her written edict, the southern settlement was permitted to become a separate colony with its own government. The colony was named Victoria in her honour.
You have not told us which colony you are asking about.
George Ferguson Bowen was the first Governor of Queensland, after Queen Victoria signed Letters Patent in 1859, declaring that Queensland was a separate colony from New South Wales.
In 1635 .
Yes. When New Hampshire became its separate colony, the govener of Massachusetts gave its own right and the united states let it have its own colony in 1793.
Queensland, which was only created as a separate colony in 1859.
The city of Victoria is the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia. There is no province called Victoria in Canada, Australia, or any other former colony.
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