Eureka stockade

Eureka Stockade

  • Govener Hothan came to power

  • Offical corruption

    This issue came to a head after a group of men beat to deatha drunken scotish digger
  • Protest

    10,000 diggers protested to realise 3 arrested
  • Diggers publicly burnt thier mining licences

  • More Burning of licences at Bakery Hill

  • Authorities launched an attack on Stackade

  • Martial law was declared

  • Gold fields commission handed down its report