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25 January Phillip sailed to Port Jackson and between 25 January and 6 February 1 000 officials, marines, dependents and convicts came ashore -
The disease
smallpox came into post jackson -
Sad News
2 aboriginal boys killed by settlers
Beginning of a six-year period of resistance to white settlement by Aboriginal people in the Hawkesbury and Parramatta areas. Known as the 'Black Wars'. Two Aboriginal boys killed near Windsor by five Hawkesbury settlers -
fight back!
Aboriginal people trying to defend their land, kill colonists. A Government order on 19 April directed Captain William Bligh to send soldiers "for their protection against those uncivilised insurgents". -
New spot
A colony is set up in Perth, on the south-west coast of Australia. -
Plain right Scared right
A select committee of the British House of Commons said that Aboriginal people had a "plain right and sacred right" to their land. -
The early drought
Drought on the north-west plains of NSW. Drying up of creeks and waterholes, forces Aboriginal people to kill sheep and cattle on European holdings, and move towards settlements looking for food. -
Only 50 !?!
About 50 remaining Aboriginal people from the Sydney and Botany Bay peoples are living at a camp on Botany Heads. -
Victoria
The Colony of Victoria established. -
"Protection"
A Board of Protection is established in Victoria and continues until 1957. During the next 20 years nearly 11 000 hectares of land are 'temporarily reserved'. By 1900, most Victorian Aboriginal people are placed on reserves. -
Unfair
17 October, a party of settlers led by Horatio Spencer Wills, is attacked by Aboriginal people at the new Cullin-la-ringo station, near Emerald, Queensland. Wills and 18 Europeans are killed. Native Police deserters are said to be the ringleaders. A punitive party set out immediately and numerous Aboriginal people were slaughtered. -
Cricket
Aboriginal cricket team tours England. Some members of the team find it difficult to adapt to the climate and have to return home. One team member dies. -
Kimberley tradgery
150 Aboriginal people are killed resisting arrest in the Kimberley -
Darwin
A settlement is established in Darwin. -
School
In the early 1870s the first Aboriginal children are enrolled in the public schools in NSW. By 1880 there are 200 Aboriginal children in school in NSW. -
The Mloga Mission
The Maloga Mission is established as a refuge for the 9 000 surviving Aboriginal people in NSW. -
The protection poloicy
South Australia introduces a Protection Policy. -
7 Killings
suring 1900 Jimmy and Joe Governor, and Jackie Underwood kill seven Europeans in NSW because Jimmy Governor took offense at slurs passed upon his European wife. Joe was later shot dead and Jimmy and Underwood were arrested.