Aboriginal History

By psroo

  • Terra Australis Incognita

    The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutchman, Willem Janszoon. Supposed first white contact.
    Australia supposed to be un owned

  • Captain Cook

    White HistoryCaptain Cook 'named New South Wales at Possession Island, naming eastern Australia 'New South Wales'.

  • First Fleet / or Invasion Day

    Port Jackson on 26 January 1788, landing at Camp Cove, known as 'cadi' to the Cadigal people.

  • Smallpox epidemic

    smallpoxAlmost half of Sydney's Indigenous population died in the smallpox epidemic of 1789 and it is said only three Cadigal people were left by 1791.
    Effects of white invasion

  • Resistance

    Pemulwy resistance. Martial Law declared NSW

  • The beginning of the end for Tasmanian Aboriginal People

    Two years after the British flag is raised in Van Dieman's land (Tasmania) settlers are given the authority to shoot Indigenous people
    Genocide

  • Bathurst Uprising

    Marshall Law in Bathurst
    100+ aboriginals killed

  • "Protection"

    British colonisation of Western Australia. Governor Stirling establishes the Swan River Colony. Aboriginal welfare becomes the direct responsibility of the Colonial Secretary.

  • Terra Nullius

    Proclamation of Governor Bourke, 10 October 1835 Ignored the rights of Aboriginal People
    Land now belonged to the Crown. NSW

  • Treaty in Victoria

    John BatmanJohn Batman signed two 'treaties' with Kulin people to 'purchase' 600,000 acres of land between what is now Melbourne and the Bellarine Peninsula. In response to these treaties and other arrangements between free settlers and Indigenous inhabitants

  • Slaughter House Creek

    Vinegar Hill
    NSW 60-70 aboriginals killed

  • Myall Creek massacre

    Myall Creek massacre
    28 women and children killed

  • Massacre

    Pinjarra massacre. Governor Stirling leads 25 mounted police against Indigenous Australians. Official records say 14 Pinjarra are killed. Pinjarra accounts suggest a whole tribe is wiped out in the attack.
    Murder. No rights

  • Cricket Team

    First Australian Cricket Team leaves to play England. ALL Aboriginals
    No recognition in our sporting historic memory

  • Tasmanian Aborigines EXTINCT

    Truganini - Last Tasmanian Aboriginal DIES

  • Early inhabitance

    the beginning 60000 BC archaeological explanations that ancestors of contemporary Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 60,000 years, arriving by sea from Southern Asia through the islands of Indonesia to Australia and New Guinea.

  • Early inhabitation

    archaeological explanations that ancestors of contemporary Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 60,000 years, arriving by sea from Southern Asia through the islands of Indonesia to Australia and New Guinea.

  • Forced removal of Children

    The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families was official government policy from 1909 to 1969.

  • Classing

    refthe surveys conducted by the Aborigines Welfare Board after 1943 categorised them as full-bloods, half-castes and lesser castes, defining for Aborigines for the first time their own Aboriginality.)
    Division of Aboriginal people into classes

  • Freedom Ride

    Students taken on Freedom ride to western NSW to see apalling conditions of aboriginal people

  • Referendum

    ReferendumReferendum
    Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the people of the Aboriginal race in any State so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the population'?

  • Mabo Case

    On 20 May 1982, Eddie Koiki Mabo, Sam Passi, David Passi, Celuia Mapo Salee and James Rice began their legal claim for ownership of their lands on the island of Mer in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
    land Rights

  • Bringing them Home

    The Bringing Them Home Report on the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children was tabled in Parliament on 26 May 1997. The report outlined the devastating impact the child removal policies had on children and their families. It found that many of the institutions and homes in which the children were placed were very cruel, and sexual and physical abuse of the children was common. It found that many of the people who managed the removals, including

  • Early History 60000 BC

    Earlier Historyarchaeological explanations that ancestors of contemporary Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 60,000 years, arriving by sea from Southern Asia through the islands of Indonesia to Australia and New Guinea.

  • Stolen Generations Apology

    Feb 13, 2008 - Mr Sawers noted that on February 13, 2008, the Australian Parliament formally apologised to the “Stolen Generations”. According to him, this apology was an acknowledgement of the reality of Australia's Aboriginal history and recognition for past acts.

  • Apology

    At the first session of the new Federal Parliament, on 13 February 2008, the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued an official apology to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Government.

  • Restrictions

    Gov. Macquarie makes ruling no armed aboriginals to be near town, no more than 6 aboriginals to be 'lurking'