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The gold rush started
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The Gold Rush
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The first gold was found by Edward Hargraves near Bathurst in New South Wales
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These licence hunts came to symbolise the governments oppression of the diggers and directly led to major protests on the goldfields in Sofala
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Bendigo licence hunts began
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The ‘Bendigo Goldfields Petition’ was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles Joseph La Trobe.
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Licence hunts began in the Eureka Rebellion
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Prompted mainly by budget short falls the governor of Victoria, Sir Charles Hotham, ordered the frequency of the licence hunts to twice weekly
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10,000 diggers met to demand the release of the three diggers, the abolition of the licence and the vote for all males.
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The Eureka Stockade Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria Australia
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The fields of Ballarat were occupied by 25,000 or more miners from Britain, Ireland, Europe and China many of whom came from the goldfields of California
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the Ballarat Reform League was formed and several thousand miners adopted a program of radical reform to bring change on the goldfields and to claim political rights.
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The gold licence was replaced by a Miner’s Right which cost 1 pound a year for the right to dig and also entitled the owner to vote in parliamentary elections.