Topics: Events: North West
Topic tags allow you to gather information from different pages on a particular topic. The first page, which appears when you click on the topic tag, shows relevant information from all place pages. The list of places will also appear on the right-hand side menu. You can display topic tags related to the particular place by clicking on the place name.
1828 - view
The Aborigines whose normal sources of food had dwindled soon develop a taste for corn meal. In helping themselves they are soon in conflict with the farmers and their servants
1828 - view
Aborigines “have speared many an Englishman, but not unprovoked”
1828 - view
“The Attorney General…asked my opinion if it would be beneficial, to bring Lieut Lowe to trial for shooting a Black. I urged him not as [if] he was removed this would satisfy the Blacks and the other would only exasperate the Settlers more
1828 - view
The whole of the outrages may be traced to this…Many lives will be lost on both sides and the Blacks threaten to Burn the Corn
1829 - view
Threlkeld is dismissed by the London Missionary Society
1829 - view
General’s crescent-shaped king plate suspended from his neck. Later again it is worn by Larry
1829 - view
Numerous properties start to grow grapes and produce wine
1829 - view
Rev Threlkeld completes his first draft of St Luke’s Gospel translated into the local Aboriginal language
1829 - view
Reward for his assistance in reducing his Native Tongue to a written Language
1830 - view
Aboriginal trackers work with the Wollombi police through to the 1930s
1830 - view
Chughi must have held some important position in the tribe as Bean designated him “Chief of the Broken Bay, Narara”
1830 - view
Aboriginal people are working in fledgling agricultural and pastoral industries. Many are skilled in the “use of the sickle”
1830 - view
Between 1840 and 1870, settlement is extended into hill country
1830 - view
“Justice towards [Aborigines] on our part has never been thought of…English rules…render it exceedingly difficult to cause the law to be put in force against murderers and other heinous wrong-doers towards the natives; and when…conviction has been obtained, the government has sympathized too much with the oppressing class, and too little with the oppressed, to permit justice to have its course. About 1799 several white people committed a murder…near Windsor , on the Hawkesbury , and were convicted
1830 - view
In [1826] a black man was shot in cold blood at the stake by the soldiers upon Hunter’s River
1831 - view
allotments offered for sale
1831 - view
Completion and opening to the public of the Great North Road
1832 - view
76 land grants totalling 22,000 acres for 67 settlers
1832 - view
Death of King Bungaree , Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe
1833 - view
Jonathan Warner , reports to government the presence of more than sixty warriors from the Maitland-Black Creek area who had come to make “war on the Lake Macquarie tribe