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List Of Conflicts In Australia
List of conflicts in Australia is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, rebellions, skirmishes, massacres, riots, and other related events that have occurred in the country of Australia's current geographical area, both before and after federation. Conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and European settlers are known collectively by some historians as the Australian frontier wars. 17th century * 1629: The Dutch East India Company sailing ship Batavia (1628 ship), ''Batavia'' struck a reef near Beacon Island (Houtman Abrolhos), Beacon Island off the Western Australian coast. A subsequent mutiny and massacre took place among the survivors. 18th century *1788: Bloody Point *1790–1800: Sydney Cove War *1790–1816: Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars ** 1790–1802: Pemulwuy, Pemulwuy's War *** 1794: Battle of Toongabbie *** 1795: Battle of Richmond Hill *** 1797: Battle of Parramatta ** 1799–1805: Black Wars ** 1802–1810: Tedbury, Tedbury's War *** 1809: Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline
A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representing time, suiting the subject and data; many use a linear scale, in which a unit of distance is equal to a set amount of time. This timescale is dependent on the events in the timeline. A timeline of evolution can be over millions of years, whereas a timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks can take place over minutes, and that of an explosion over milliseconds. While many timelines use a linear timescale—especially where very large or small timespans are relevant -- logarithmic timelines entail a logarithmic scale of time; some "hurry up and wait" chronologies are depicted with zoom lens metaphors. More usually, "timeline" refers merely to a data set which could be displayed as described above. For example, this meaning is used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Richmond Hill
The Battle of Richmond Hill, also known as the Battle of the Hawkesbury and the Richmond Hill Massacre, was a battle of the Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars, which were fought between the Indigenous Darug people and the New South Wales Corps (also including several armed settlers). Settlers replace Indigenous crops Four hundred British settlers moved onto the lands of the Darug people along the Hawkesbury River in 1794 and began to construct farms. They removed yam beds that had been cultivated along the river by Indigenous people and they planted Indian corn (maize). Indigenous people saw the corn on their land as a replacement carbohydrate of the yams and when it ripened, both men and women began carried it off in nets and later blankets. Settlers fired shots on Indigenous people to drive them away. Some settlers kidnapped babies and toddlers from the fleeing parents, saying that parents had abandoned them. Parents gathered near farms and begged for the return of the children. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Island Convict Mutinies
Norfolk Island convict mutinies were a series of armed uprisings by convicts on the penal colony of Norfolk Island, Australia. All were unsuccessful. 1826 rebellion The first convict rebellion took place in September 1826. It was led by "Black" John Goff. He arranged for two convict decoys to make an escape attempt; they were followed by several soldiers. While this happened, fifty convicts seized and bound their overseers, robbed the stores for provisions and put three boats to sea. One soldier was killed, bayoneted to death, while others were wounded. The convicts sailed to Phillip Island where they were eventually re-captured, although some eluded the authorities for up to six months. The ringleaders – Goff, William Moore and Edward Watson – were tried and hanged in Sydney in 1827. The Chief Justice said when passing sentence on John Goff: You... have detailed to the Court a long complaint of the hardships you have undergone, of your love of liberty, and of the degree of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounted Police And Blacks
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, Cornwall, England People * Mount (surname) * William L. Mounts (1862–1929), American lawyer and politician Computing and software * Mount (computing), the process of making a file system accessible * Mount (Unix), the utility in Unix-like operating systems which mounts file systems Books * ''Mount!'', a 2016 novel by Jilly Cooper Displays and equipment * Mount, a fixed point for attaching equipment, such as a hardpoint on an airframe * Mounting board, in picture framing * Mount, a hanging scroll for mounting paintings * Mount, to display an item on a heavy backing such as foamcore, e.g.: ** To pin a biological specimen, on a heavy backing in a stretched stable position for ease of dissection or display ** To prepare dead animals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathurst War
The Bathurst War (1824) was a war between the Wiradjuri nation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Following the successful Blaxland, Lawson, and Wentworth expedition to find a route through the "impenetrable" Blue Mountains in 1813, this allowed the colony to expand onto the vast fertile plains of the west. Invasion of the new land was initially slow, but following a change of government, Governor Thomas Brisbane came to power allowing a flood of land grants to the west of the Blue Mountains. The enormous influx of British colonists put massive strain on the traditional food sources and sacred landmarks of the Wiradjuri. By early 1824, war had broken out in which the Wiradjuri adopted a guerrilla-style approach. After Governor Thomas Brisbane declared martial law, the resistance soon collapsed in late 1824. Background Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson Attempts to cross the Blue Mountains had been made from 1790 onwards with convicts seeking a way to escape and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnamurra River Massacre
On 1 October 1818, approximately six Wodiwodi people were killed in a clash with nine settlers from the Colony of New South Wales along the Minnamurra River in the Illawarra, New South Wales. The settlers claimed to have been attempting to recover two muskets which had been lent to some of the Aboriginal people which escalated into an armed clash. Local Dapto property owner, William Frederick Weston, his site overseer, Cornelius O'Brien, along with seven unknown convicts and labourers approached an Aboriginal campsite in the early hours of the morning, armed with muskets, swords and knives attached to long sticks. An armed clash resulted. Location The exact location of the massacre is disputed. Research led by Professor Lyndall Ryan, has led to an agreement of the approximate location of the massacre site. In 2018, it was claimed that Kiama Council had plans to erect a permanent memorial of recognition along the proposed Minnamurra boardwalk, commemorated by a memorial servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Razorback, New South Wales
Razorback is a locality and scattered village in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia, in the Wollondilly Shire Wollondilly Shire is a Peri-urbanisation, periurban Local government in Australia, local government area that is located on the far southwest fringe of the Sydney, Greater Sydney area in New South Wales, Australia. The local government area is pa .... At the , the locality had a population of 1,174. It is in between the main Macarthur towns of Picton (to the south) and Camden (to the north). It is commonly referred to as ''Razorback Range'' as it is part range of high steep hills that make up the Macarthur Region. Furthermore, like most of the Wollondilly it is part of the hills that are in between the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands regions. At the top of Razorback contains a lookout which offers panoramic views of the Campbelltown- Camden urban district as well as the metropolitan Sydney as a whole. References * {{authority cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rum Rebellion
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was a ''coup d'état'' in the British penal colony of New South Wales, staged by the New South Wales Corps in order to depose Governor William Bligh. Australia's first and only military coup, its name derives from the illicit rum trade of early Sydney, over which the 'Rum Corps', as it became known, maintained a monopoly. During the first half of the 19th century, it was widely referred to in Australia as the Great Rebellion. Bligh, a former Royal Navy captain known for his overthrow in the mutiny on the ''Bounty'', had been appointed governor in 1805 to rein in the power of the Corps. Over the next two years, Bligh made enemies not only of Sydney's military elite, but several prominent civilians, notably John Macarthur, who joined Major George Johnston in organising an armed takeover. On 26 January 1808, 400 soldiers marched on Government House and arrested Bligh. He was kept in confinement in Sydney, then aboard a ship off Hobart, Van Diemen's Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Hill Convict Rebellion
The Castle Hill convict rebellion was a Convicts in Australia, convict rebellion in Castle Hill, New South Wales, Castle Hill, Sydney, then part of the British colony of New South Wales. Led by veterans of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the poorly armed insurgents confronted the colonial forces of Australia on 5 March 1804 at Rouse Hill, New South Wales, Rouse Hill. Their rout in the resulting skirmish was hailed by as loyalists as "Australia's Vinegar Hill" after the 1798 battle of Vinegar Hill, where Society of United Irishmen rebels were decisively defeated. The incident was the first major convict uprising in History of Australia, Australian history to be suppressed under martial law. On 4 March 1804, 233 convicts, led by Philip Cunningham, a veteran of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 as well as a Mutiny, mutineer on the convict transport Anne (1799 ship), ''Anne'', escaped from a prison farm, intent on "capturing ships to sail to Ireland". In response, martial law was quickly decl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepean Campaign
Nepean may refer to: Electorates * Division of Nepean, former federal electorate in New South Wales * Electoral district of Nepean, state electoral district in Victoria, Australia * Electoral district of Nepean (New South Wales), former state electoral district in New South Wales * Nepean (federal electoral district), a Canadian electoral district covering Nepean and other parts of western Ottawa **Nepean—Carleton (federal electoral district), former Canadian electoral district (1979 to 1988, 1997 to 2015) **Nepean—Carleton (provincial electoral district), former Canadian electoral district (1999 to 2014) Organisations and institutions * Nepean College of Advanced Education, a former higher education institution in Western Sydney, Australia * Nepean Creative and Performing Arts High School, Sydney, Australia * Nepean Hospital, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia * Nepean Observatory, an observatory, part of Western Sydney University at Werrington North, New South Wales * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Nepean
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish. The word "battle" can also be used infrequently to refer to an entire operational campaign, although this usage greatly diverges from its conventional or customary meaning. Generally, the word "battle" is used for such campaigns if referring to a protracted combat encounter in which either one or both of the combatants had the same methods, resources, and strategic objectives throughout the encounter. Some prominent examples of this would be the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and the Battle of France, all in World War II. Wars and military campaigns are guided by military strategy, whereas batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appin, New South Wales
Appin is a town on the south-west fringe of Sydney in the Macarthur Region in Tharawal country near its boundary with Gandangara country, New South Wales, Australia in Wollondilly Shire. It is situated about south of Campbelltown and northwest of Wollongong. History Early history Appin is in the lands of the Dharawal people. "During the Dreaming a great fire swept through the land. Wiritjiribin led the people to sanctuary in a cool green gully which had been missed by the fire, under the rocky cliffs of a gorge south of Appin. Those who had perished in the fire were reincarnated as animals and Wiritjiribin appeared as a lyrebird, which became the clan's totem, a symbol of peace and caretaker of the Land of Gawaigl, an area which became a meeting place for Peoples from all over the east coast of Australia" European settlement in the Appin district was prohibited for some years; Appin was part of the 'Cowpastures' where a small herd of cattle had established themselves, hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
