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Period: to
1830
- The Trail of Tears/ Indian Removal Act
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Period: to
1831
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Period: to
1832
- First boatload of free women arrive in NSW
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Period: to
1833
- Slavery Abolishment Act bans slavery across the British Empire
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Period: to
1834
- The Henty family arrive (the first permanent settlers in Port Phillip District, modern Victoria)
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Period: to
1835
- Batman's treaty, and agreement between John Batman and the Wurundjeri people
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Period: to
1836
- South Australia begins as a British colony
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Period: to
1837
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Period: to
1838
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Period: to
1839
- First Opium War starts in China
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Period: to
1840
- New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British
- Britain stops sending convicts to NSW
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Period: to
1841
- Immigrants home opened in Sydney by Caroline Crisholm
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Period: to
Irish Potato Famine
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Period: to
1848
- California Gold Rush
- The Communist Manifesto was published
- Revolutions of 1848 in Europe
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Period: to
1851
- New South Wales gold discovered
- Victorian Separation, the Port Phillip District becomes a seperate colony, Victoria
- Gold discovered in Victoria
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Period: to
1852
- News of Australian gold inspires a rush of British migrants
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Period: to
1853
- The arrival of US gunships in Edo, Japan forces Japan to open up to US trade the following year
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Period: to
Crimean War
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Period: to
1854
- Eureka Stockade
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Period: to
1855
- The Chinese entry tax where the Victorian government charges 10 pounds for Chinese immigrants to enter
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Period: to
1856
- The Victorian Electoral Act introduces secret ballots
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Period: to
1857
- The Buckland River Riots where diggers attacked Chinese miners allegedly encroaching on their claims.