Convict Rebellion

Kicking in the Womb

At no time did the convicts ever accept what was being done to them.  Initially their thoughts turned to escape, but gradually they came to focus on nation building. The first glimpses of adaptation to the place, of constitutional thinking, social standard setting are all to be seen in the stories of convict rebellion.

Index - Convict Rebellion - Australian history

1787 - John Towers at Tenerife
1787 - Rebellion on the voyage over
1788 - Elizabeth Thackery - Manchester Assizes, stealing a silk handkerchief, convict, Friendship,  Fighting Five, Charlotte, 1786, Botany Bay
1789 - John Caesar - Black Caesar, First Fleet Convict, Our first Bushranger 
1791 - Chinese Travellers - Convict Rebellion and Escape
1797 - Irish Defenders Mass Escape -
1796 - Convict Bushranging -
1791 - Mary Bryant - The Girl From Botany Bay
1791 - Convict Origins of the Trade Union Movement - Luddites, Last Labourers' Revolt, Tolpuddle Martyrs
1802 - Pike Rebellion - How the Reverend Samuel Marsden earned his name of the Flogging Parson
1804 - Castle Hill Uprising - Birth of Australian Republicanism
1807 - Wicklow Five - Hugh Byrne and Michael Dwyer
1807 - Van Daemon's Land Bolters - Tasmanian Convicts turned Bushrangers
1812 - Michael Howe, Michael Howe, convict, rebel commander, bushranger, first Native Australian land claim
1820 - Currency Lads & Lasses - Convict children, Unique Australian Culture
1820 - Matthew Bradey - Australia's Robin Hood, Convict Rebel Leader, Bushranger, Daemon's Land

1820 - Squatters - Illegal occupation of land, Ticket-of-Leave Convicts, emancipists, pioneers
1824 - John Knatchbull - Convict, The Tea Sweeteners, arsenic, Norfolk Island

1833 - Norfolk Island Rebellion, Penal Colony, convict rebellion, Laurence Frayne, Commander Morisset, Captain Charles Sturt, Foster Fyans
1835 - Australian Patriotic Association - New South Wales, convicts, Emancipists, representative government, Constitution Act of 1842
1869 - Fenian Irish Convicts, John Boyle O’Reilly, Bunbury, WA, whaling ship Catalpa, Georgette, Superintendent of Water Police, Mr Stone, Fremantle
 

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