Topics: People: Political leaders: North Coastal
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Before Cook - view
Bennelong was a Wangal and his clans land spreads from Balmain along the Parramatta River to Parramatta.
Before Cook - view
Colby was a Cadigal from South Head to Warrane (Sydney Cove).
1750 - 1769 - view
Bungaree’s parents born in Brisbane Waters or nearby country.
1770s - view
Bungaree is born in Broken Bay. One family tradition places his birthplace as Patonga. He most probably speaks Wannungine (Guringai language). He is thought to be a Garigal clan man.
1789 - view
Bennelong
(A Wangal man) and Colbee (Cadigal) are captured at Manly.
1790 - view
Pemulwuy, a
feared Koori warrior and leader, is said to have led attacks on it.
1790 - view
Bennelong
escapes from Governor Phillip’s house.
1790 - view
Willermarin,
a Koori man visiting from the north, spears Governor Phillip at Manly Cove.
Phillip has taken up the invitation of Bennelong to attend a whale feast.
Phillip is the victim of an attack and is speared in the shoulder, staggers
back to his longboat while his soldiers disperse the Aboriginal people. Phillip
does not order retribution and Bennelong is later welcomed back into Phillip’s
confidence.
1790 - view
Pemulwuy,
a Koori from near Parramatta,
fights the invasion by the English through attacks upon the settlement. His
group commits many raids killing or wounding 17 people. Pemulwuy spears
Governor Phillip’s game keeper John McIntire who dies from his wounds.
1792 - view
Governor
Phillip leaves for England
taking Koories, Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne.
1794 - view
Pemulwuy leads his men on a raid at Parramatta
and is wounded. Collins notes ‘the natives have become troublesome … forcibly
taking provisions and clothing from convicts”. (Collins 1971 vol 1, p. 297)
1795 - view
Pemulwuy
is seen at an initiation ceremony, recovered from wounds. He leads a new attack
on settlers at Brickfield Hill.
1797 - view
Bennelong
takes part in the last recorded initiation corroboree at Port Jackson (Collins
1975, p. 49)
1799 - view
John
Molloy, a surgeon in the Hawkesbury district, reports that in the four years
prior to 1799, 26 settlers have been killed and 13 wounded.
1800 - 1803 - view
Her mother is ‘Queen’ Matora, a wife of Bungaree.
1801 - view
Garigal
clan leader Grewin from Patonga leads his clan in Pittwater helping seamen and
plundering wreckage from shipwrecks. Report by Lieutenant James Grant who walks
from North Head to Pittwater accompanied by three Garigal men, four women and
two children. They meet 10 other Garigal people camped at “Narrobine
[Narrabeen] Lagoon”.
1801 - view
10
June, Bungaree sails on the Lady Nelson to the Coal River, Newcastle, in an
expedition looking for coal. At the Hunter
River, Bungaree joins the
Koories and makes his own way southwards to his country on foot.
1802 - 1803 - view
Bungaree
sets out on 22 July on the Investigator to circumnavigate Australia
with Matthew Flinders and another Koorie man Nanbaree, who has been brought up
in the settlement by Surgeon White. Bungaree is the first Indigenous man to
circumnavigate Australia.
1802 - 1803 - view
Nanbaree returns to Sydney
earlier as he is homesick.
1802 - 1803 - view
On
his return, Bungaree brings the Broken
Bay clan to settle in
Port Jackson. He makes camp at Kirribilli.