Chapter 3 - Nation, race and Empire, 1860-1890

  • Australia's population reaches one million

  • Period: to

    American Civil War between the union and seceding Confederacy (World Event)

  • Slavery abolished in the US

  • Attempted Assassination

    Henry O'Farrell shoots Duke of Edinburgh at Clontarf, Sydney
  • Suez Canal opens (World Event)

    linking the mediterranean to the Red Sea
  • Victorian Aboriginal Protection Board Begins

    Aboriginal Protection Act gives Central Board Wide powers over Aboriginal residence and employmeny
  • First association of native born Australians founded

    The Australian Natives' Association
  • Period: to

    Second Industrial Revolution

  • First Test Cricket Match Played

    Between England and Australia at the MCG
  • Seamen's Strike

    Protests against Chinese employment and residence
  • Coranderrk Petition

    Kulin people appeal for secure tenure of their lands
  • Amending Act of 1869 Aboriginal Act

    the Act's white racial ideas of degrees of descent required 'mixed-descent' people to assimilate into European society
  • Queen Victoria's Jubilee

    Imperialist demonstrations spark republican protests in Sydney
  • Arrival of the ship S.S. Afghan

    Sparks protests against Chinese immigration
  • NSW Premier joins movement for Australian Federation

    When Henry Parkes gives his Tenterfield Oration