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James Cook Claims the East Coast of Australia
Cooks claims proprietorship of the entire East Coast of Australia and raised the British flag at Possession Island. He made 3 trips to the South Pacific between 1768 and 1779 with the ‘Secret Instructions' from the British Admiralty. -
First Fleet
The First Fleet lands in Port Jackson and the British arrangements in Australia begins. Over 10 years it has been reported that there has been clashes between the Aboriginals and British settlers. -
The Slaughter of Aboriginal People Begins
A lieutenant of the New South Wales Rum Corps instructed to barrage on Risdon Cove, Tasmania where about 300 Aboriginal people were hunting. About 30 to 60 people were killed. This is when the slaughter of the Aboriginal people begun. -
Aboriginal Peoples Resettle
After the Tasmanian Aboriginal fail to resettle in Flinders Island, they move their establishment to Cape Barren Island. -
Aborigines Protection Act
The Aborigines Protection Act was born in Victoria so they can manage the interests of Aborigines, this was used to remove any Indigenous child at any time even if their parents were dead or alive. -
Gravesend Massacre
A massacre was set at Gravesend, New South Wales, where about 200 Aboriginal people were killed. -
Myall Creek Massacre
12 armed colonists rounded up 40-50 Aboriginals and brutally killed 28 of them at Henry Dangar’s Station. Most of these killings were women and children, 7 stockmen were hanged for murder and this angered the colonists. They were like "why should anyone get hang for murdering Aboriginal people?". -
Massacres 1840 -1868
In a massacre at Long Lagoon, a whole community of Aboriginals were killed. At Rufus River, 30 Aboriginal people were massacred. In Emerald, Queensland the Aboriginals struck back and killed 19 white settlers. In result, 170 Aboriginal people are killed for revenge. In Kimberley, Western Australia, 150 Aboriginal people were killed when they refused to be arrested. -
Sturt Massacre
Some Policemen were searched for a Aboriginal man named Banjo, and then they shot a a group of Aboriginal people in Sturt Creek, but when they run out of firearms they chained up Aboriginal men, women and children and took them to a Denison Downs homestead to get shot at and get set on fire. -
Reece Kershaws Apology
A Northern Territory Police Commissioner named Reece Kershaws apologies for the massacre of the Aboriginal people in a speech.