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the first Europeans to arrive at adventure bay
explorer Abel Tasman
The first European to sight the bay was explorer Abel Tasman, who sought to anchor his vessel Heemskerck there in 1642. -
End Of The Napoleonic wars
Napoleon escaped from Elba in 1815, gathering enough support to overthrow the monarchy of Louis XVIII, triggering a seventh, and final, coalition against him. Napoleon was decisively defeated at Waterloo, and he abdicated again on 22 June. ... The Treaty of Paris, signed on 20 November 1815, formally ended the war. -
the black war
The Black War was the period of violent conflict between British colonists and Aboriginal Australians in Tasmania from the mid-1820s to 1832 -
beginning of first the industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in the 18th century, when agricultural societies became more industrialized and urban. The transcontinental railroad, the cotton gin, electricity and other inventions permanently changed society. -
Shootout at stringy bark creek
Three policemen were killed by the Kelly gang in a shootout and one police man was able to escape on horse that had been one of his fellow police officers -
beginning of the boxer rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement, was an armed and violent xenophobic, anti-Christian, and anti-imperialist insurrection in China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty -
the battle of beersheba
The charge of the 4th Australian Light Horse at Beersheba late in the afternoon of 31 October 1917, is remembered as the last great cavalry charge. The assault on Beersheba began at dawn and the Anzac Mounted Division’s attack from the east had succeeded in capturing Beersheba by mid-afternoon, this caused a long lasting bond between soldiers and horses and many of the soldiers wanted to take their horses home but the could not
