Gold Rush

By damienPigatto

  • Robert Rede becomes Ballarat’s Gold Commissioner.

  • Lt Governor Charles Hotham arrives in Victoria

    Lt Governor Charles Hotham arrives in Victoria, releases the colony is in mounting financial debt.

  • Governor Hotham and his wife tour the gold fields

    They receive warm welcomes from the miners.

  • James Scobie murdered

    James Scobie is murdered outside the Eureka Hotel. An inquest finds that the wounds were inflicted by an unknown person.

  • Bentley's Eureka Hotel is burned down

    A meeting of up to 10,000 diggers was held near the Eureka Hotel to protest against Bentley’s acquittal. The meeting results in the burning of the Eureka Hotel.

  • Soldiers attack the stockade

    In the early hours on a Sunday morning led by Captain Thomas, a well armed contingent of more than 300 soldiers and police proceed to the Eureka Lead to attack the Eureka Stockade.
    At dawn the Stockade is attacked and a brief battle follows. Twenty two diggers and seven military were officially listed as being killed, Many others are wounded.
    Approximately 120 diggers are arrested and marched to the Government Camp.

  • Governor Hotham dies in Melbourne

  • The miner had to pay for the Licence!

    Licence system introduced for mining, you had to have a licence before mining for gold.