The Eureka Stockade

By Simone02
  • 1851 BCE

    in August the licence fee were introduced

  • Period: to

    The Eureka stockade

  • the first gold struck in Victoria

  • Ballarat was named the richest gold fields

  • gold struck in Adelaide

  • small speaks of gold was found

  • Eureka Stockade began in Victoria

  • James Bentley went to court

    James went to court, he was known to be guilty but he knew the judge and was set free. the diggers wanted justice and burnt down the hotel.

  • the Eureka stockade

    Commissioner Rede got a combined forces with 400 soldiers and police to attack 150 diggers defending the wooden stockade or know as the wooden fort.

  • Licence

    The diggers lost, but in 1855 the licences were replaced by diggers rights, and costing one pound a year and giving its holder the rights to vote.

  • Scobie died

    well known and liked digger James Scobie was kicked to death near the Eureka Hotel. Scobie argued with the owner James Bently, who was an ex-convict.

  • Gold was found NSW

  • If diggers found gold they would sell it