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The first coin in Australia was the Holy Coin
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Early in the morning of 18 December 1838, seven men were publicly hanged at the Sydney Gaol. they where the first British subjects to be executed for massacring Aboriginal people.
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The discovery of gold in he 1850s started a series of rushes that transformed the Australian Colonies.
The first discoveries of payable gold were at Ophir in New South Wales and then at Ballarat and Bendigo Creek in Victoria. -
In the middle of the night on 24 June 1852, a catastrophic flood swept through the New South Wales town of Gundagai. The water rose quickly to become a raging torrent that swept whole buildings away and left people clinging for their lives in trees.
