Australian Aboriginal history

By aweepinpotato

  • Captain Cook Claims Australia

    Captain Cook Claims Australia
    Captain James cook took the whole east coast of Australia for the British crown.

  • captain phillip raises union jack

    : Captain Phillip raises the Union Jack at Sydney Cove to begin a penal colony.

  • first aboriginal to go to sea

    first aboriginal to go to sea
    an orphan is the first aboriginal person to go to sea.

  • Governor Macquarie found the Native Institute

    : Governor Macquarie found the Native Institute as a school for Aboriginal children of both sexes.

  • aboriginals attack farms

    The aboriginals attack farms on the edge of Sydney

  • high scale killings as conflict over dispossession

    There are a large number of high scale killings as conflict over dispossession of the land and erosion of hunting rights continues

  • a colony sets up in Perth.

    a colony sets up in Perth. Towards the south-west coast of Australia.

  • an entire community of aboriginal people perishes in a massacre

    an entire community of aboriginal people perishes in a massacre at long lagoon, a newly settled station in inland Queensland.

  • : 30 Aboriginal people massacred at Rufus River

    30 Aboriginal people massacred at Rufus River in New South Wales, close to the boundaries with Victoria and South Australia.

  • around 50 aboriginal people remaining from the Sydney and Botany Bay

    around 50 aboriginal people remaining from the Sydney and Botany Bay citizens are living in a camp on botany heads.

  • Torres Strait islanders annexed by Queensland.

    : the Torres Strait islanders annexed by Queensland. The Torres Strait islanders are not dispersed from their homelands like aboriginal people.