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Captain Phillip raises the Union Jack at Sydney Cove. Aboriginal resistance flares within a few days of arrival of the tall ships. Two convicts are killed at Rushcutters Bay, NSW
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Small pox epidemic decimate the Eora people around Sydney
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Pemulwuy, the first guerrilla fighter leads the Darug in the first organised 12-year long Aboriginal resistance to the invasion. After being shot seriously twice, and surviving both times, he is considered unable to be killed by bullets.
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Tasmanian settlement
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Bennelong a native Australian who was captured by the settlers and learned their customes dies
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Governor Macquarie founds the Native Institute as a school for Aboriginal children of both sexes
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Windradyne leads Wiradjuri Resistance that will last for two years along the Murray River
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The Black Line, a major military offensive against Tasmanian Aborigines
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Yagan leads Nyungar Resistance in Western Australia for three years
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Yagan is killed. His head is cut off and pickled. It is then sent to England as a Museum curiosity
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June: Myall Creek Massacre, NSW, with many Kwiambal people killed by Europeans
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The first Australian Cricket Team to tour overseas leaves Australia for England; the team is all Aboriginal
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Truganini dies; against her wishes the Tasmanian Museum displays her bones. 100 years later, her bones are cremated and scattered onto the water
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First Aboriginal person to play First Grade Rugby League was George Green playing for Eastern Suburbs
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Beginning of WWI. Approximately 400 to 500 Aboriginal continue to be removed from their families during the period 1914 to 1918, including children whose fathers are overseas at War.
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Lynch Cooper was named World Professional Sprinter Champion
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Eddie Gilbert bowled the great Donald Bradman for duck, in the fastest bowling spell Bradman said he ever faced
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William Ferguson forms the Aboriginal Progressive Association
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Beginning of WWII. An estimated 3000 Aboriginal people and Islanders serve as formally enlisted soldiers, sailors or airmen. Aboriginal children continue to be removed from their families during the period 1939 to 1945, including children whose fathers are overseas at war
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Cathy Freeman wins Gold at the Sydney Olympics
