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Aboriginals in Tasmania
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1803 - 1804
In 1803 and 1804 the settlements of Hobart Town and Port Dalrymple (later Launceston) were established in Van Diemen's Land. -
Rebelion
Hundreds of Aboriginal Tasmanians were killed in 1803, when they attempted to stop soldiers and convicts building huts near the present site of Hobart. -
Death by day
After 1824 (with another 100 to 150 dying before that date), while they killed about 170 Europeans. -
Seperate Colony
Van Diemen's Land soon became a separate colony in 1825. -
War in the 1820's
In 1828 Governor Arthur ordered Aboriginal people out of all settled districts. In 1830 more than two thousand soldiers, convicts and settlers were formed into lines for a drive to capture all the Aboriginal people in the area of conflict or drive them through the narrow strip of land that forms Eaglehawk Neck and into the Tasman Peninsula -
1829 - 1834
From 1829 to 1834, George Augustus Robinson, a Methodist lay preacher, 131working on behalf of the government, travelled among the survivors. Robinson believed that they would be wiped out if they remained in Tasmania and he convinced some of them to agree to what they believed would be a temporary move to an island off the Tasmanian coast. -
Population Drop
The most common estimate is between 4000 and 7000 people. But by 1832 there were just 203 survivors -
No one left.
1856 there were even fewer after the land was renamed Tasmania.