Topics: Events: North West
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1818 - view
Aboriginal boy named Wallace is taken from Newcastle by Captain James Wallis and is placed in the Parramatta Native Institution
1818 - view
Captain Wallis of the 46th Regiment who had commanded the grenadiers against Aboriginal people (Gundungurra) in 1816. Following his “zealous exertions” in the punitive expedition, he is appointed by Governor Macquarie to relieve Lieutenant Thompson as Commandant at Newcastle
1818 - view
Bantagran not only saves the lives of party members but opens an invaluable dialogue between Singleton and elders of Hunter Valley tribesmen
1819 - view
"Cutting a black native with a knife."
1819 - view
He becomes a notable Aborigine at Rev Threlkeld’s mission on Lake Macquarie and accompanies Leichhardt on his first and second expeditions
1820 - view
Governor Macquarie rewards Mioram (“Myles”) with a breast plate and Howe promises that he can keep a musket
1820 - view
corn season “when they steal large quantities”, they also assist to bring in the harvest
1820 - view
an official system of using Aborigines as guards and trackers to prevent the escape of prisoners
1820 - view
“decorated by the commandant with a brass crescent-shaped plate” to confer on them the rank of “chief”
1820 - view
Burrigan is stabbed by Kirby the following morning when the men panic at the sight of arriving soldiers
1820 - view
In the late 1820s, numerous central coast Aboriginal men become famous for their assistance to the colony, particularly as trackers of runaway convicts
1820 - view
A brass or tin plate with an inscription, is also a great desideratum in their eyes, to hang round their necks
1820 - view
Death of King Burrigan of the Newcastle tribe , from injuries sustained in the recapture of convicts
1820 - view
Three convicts are flogged for “Inhumanely ill treating and cutting a black native and intimidating him against bringing in bushrangers"
1820 - view
Trial and execution
1821 - view
The Governor records not only the growing farming settlement, but also the mobility of Bungaree on whom Macquarie conferred the title of “King” and installed him on a farm at George’s Head
1821 - view
There is a significant number of fatalities among Aboriginal children at the Native Institution
1821 - view
Biraban tracks escaped convicts. He returns to Lake Macquarie and as Biraban he assumes ceremonial leadership among his people, becoming “tribal king” of the district under Governor Macquarie
1822 - view
Missionaries establish a seminary for the instruction of Aboriginal youths
1822 - view
Aborigines live in dread of war with the Kamilaroi , who migrate down the heads of the Hunter