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Bakery Hill Fight
A fight between the Ballarat diggers and the troopers and Police.
I have chosen this event because i did alot of research on this event. -
The Welcome Nugget
The Welcome Nugget was found on Bakery Hill, Ballarat,Victoria.Ichose this event because I learnt alot of things on the welcome nugget. -
Chinese Miners
The Chinese Miners came here to get away from war and came here to have peace and a democracy. Ichose this event because it is an historical moment of the gold rush -
Lambing Flat Riot
The most infamous riot occurred on the night of 30 June 1861.I chose this event because it is talking about rascism . -
The Welcome Stranger
The Welcome Stranger was the largest gold nugget ever to be found it was found by two men named John Deason and Richard Oates. -
Spondulix
This nugget was found during November 1872 in Eureka Gully, which is part of the Jordan’s gold field, between Berlin and Wehla, Victoria. It was found by Wilton and party and weighed in at 155 ounces, measured 17 by 16 by 5 centimetres. It was also associated with some quartz and ironstone. -
Schlemm Nugget
This nugget was found by Henry Davey in Dunolly, near Wilson's Lead on the 11th of November 1872. It weighed 538 ounces and measured 31 by 30 by 8 centimetres in size. The exact name of the place where the nugget was found is "The Shoots". Quartz was generally mixed throughout the nugget with a little ironstone. The nugget was subsequently purchased by Mr. Charles Schlemm of Sandhurst. -
Death Of Ned Kelly
He was hanged on 11 November 1880 at the Melbourne Gaol. Kelly's gaol warden wrote in his diary that when Kelly was prompted to say his last words, the prisoner opened his mouth and mumbled something that he could not hear. -
The Hand of Faith
This nugget was found behind the State School in Kingower, Victoria in 1980. It weighed 845 troy ounces (about 27.2 kg) and measured 45 by 19 by 10 centimetres. Despite concerted efforts to keep it within Australia, the nugget was later sold and is on display in the Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas, USA. -
The bane of the diggings
Spirit selling is strictly prohibited; and although the Government will license a respectable public-house on the road, it is resolutely refused on the diggings. The result has been the opposite of that which it was intended to produce. There is more drinking and rioting at the diggings than elsewhere, the privacy and risk gives the obtaining it an excitement which the diggers enjoy as much as the spirit itself. I chose this event because i had never heard of it before.
