Democratic Colony Index

Nationhood

Federation Index

Soldiers of the Queen

1867-9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment (9 RQR) - Australian Army, light infantry battalion, Boer War, Gallipoli campaign, Western Front, New Guinea campaign
1891 - Royal New South Wales Lancers - Sydney Light Horse Troop, Captain M.M. MacDonald, Parramatta, Governor, Lachlan Macquarie, Boer War, First World War, Gallipoli, Palestine, World War II,New Guinea, Borneo, 7th Division, Balikpapan,
1863 - Maori Wars, 1860s, British settlers, Treaty of Waitangi, Maoris , full scale Maori revolt, Waikato Militia, scouting , protecting settlers
1880-2002 - The Solomons  Operation Anode, Australian Defence Force,  Solomon Islands, 1880, HMS Emerald  Florida Island, 1920, HMAS Adelaide
1885 - Sudan Expedition, North Africa, Muslim rebellion, Sudan, British General Gordon, Egyptian troops massacred, Khartoum, 1885,Suakin. 
1893 - Wollongong Fortifications, Picture study.
1898 - Boer War, Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Peter Handcock, Southern Africa, Henry Lawson, the Bulletin, A B 'Banjo' Patterson
1899, World's first Labor Party Government (Premier Anderson Dawson lasted one week)
1899 - Jessie toshack, Boer War Nurse.
1900 - The Boxer Rebellion, Considerably updated, Commander Francis Hixson, Gunboat HMCS Protector, Woosung, Taku, Tientsin

Explorers

1860 - The Burke and Wills expedition leaves Melbourne

Land Travel

1814 - Coach Travel ,  William Highland ,  Royal Mail ,  Peter Cunningham ,  James Atkinson
1814 - A road across the Blue Mountains ,  Lachlan Macquarie ,  George Evans ,  William Cox ,  Major Thomas Mitchell ,  David Lennox
1822 - Elizabeth Hawkins ,  Crossing the Blue Mountains ,  Governor Macquarie ,  Thomas Hawkins ,  Blue Mountains ,  Bathurst ,  New South Wales ,  The diary of first family of white free settlers to cross the Blue Mountains
1853 - Cobb & Co ,  Australian land transport,  coach travel ,  Freeman Cobb ,  James Rutherford ,  Bathurst NSW ,
1865, First steam trains in Queensland (from Ipswich to Bigge's Camp (now Grandchester)).
1883, Sydney, Melbourne railway is opened. 

Gold

1860 - Chinese Diggers, Chinese, Colony, Victoria, gold, Ballarat, Bendigo
1867 - Gold discovered in Gympie Queensland
1869 - Welcome Stranger, large gold nugget, Richard Oates, John Deason
1886, Gold found in South Australia, Teetulpa, Waukaringa
1887, Gold in Western Australia, Cossack, Kimberleys, Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie,  Yilgarn, Southern Cross, Arthur Bayley, William Ford

Business and Industry

1865 - Arnott's Biscuits, William Arnott, Newcastle, New South Wales, Leslie Arnott, Sao,
1888 - Brewing in Australia, W M Foster establishes a brewery

Political and Social Movements

1874 - Australian Natives Association, Ballarat, Victoria, Alfred Deakin, Alexander Peacock, native, born males, promoting nationhood 
1889 - Labor Party History ,  Tree of Knowledge, Barcaldine, Labour Leagues, Chris Watson, Andrew Fisher, James Scullin, John Curtin, etc
1894 - S. A. women first to get vote, South Australia, women, vote, Adult Suffrage Bill, Catherine Spence, Rose Scott, Womanhood Suffrage League, NSW
1895 - Sunday Soap Boxes, Sydney, the Domain, tree stump sermons, passion, humour, politics, clergymen, socialists, aspiring politicians, striking labourers
1896 - National Council of Women, 1896, Sydney, Women’s Literary Society, Women’s Suffrage League, Kindergarten Union, Balmain Ladies’ Benevolent Society, Lady Hampden, Bathurst conference: the second of the 'peoples' conventions'.
1900 - Federal Labour Party formed , 1900, Intercolonial Conference, state Labour parties, Federal Labour Party

Science and Technology

1879 - Richard Thomas Baker, Economic Botanist

Literature, the Arts and Sport

1870 - For The Term Of His Natural Life,  Marcus Clark, Australian novel, Convicts, the Argus
1877 - The Australian cricket team is established.
1877 - Australia and England play the first cricket Test match in Melbourne.  England defeated.
1878 - Advance Australia Fair’, National Anthem, history of Australia, Peter Dodds McCormick 
1879 - Royal National Park dedicated, Sydney, National Park, Sir John Robertson
1882 - Robbery under Arms, Rolf Boldrewood, Novel, Dick Marston, Sydney Mail, bushranger
1895 - Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland.
 1895 - A B (Banjo) Paterson's Man from Snowy River and Other Verses are published.
1898 - Mitchell Library Sydney opened, Mr David Scott Mitchell , Trustees of the Public Library of N5W Sydney

Aborigines

1876, The last full blooded Tasmanian aboriginal, Truganini, dies.

First Eureka Rebellion

1880 - Peter Lalor elected Victorian Speaker, Legislative Assembly, Eureka Stockade, Mr Thomas Bent, Mr Service

Second Eureka Rebellion

1890 - The Second Eureka Rebellion
1890 - J. A. Andrews (1865, 1903)
1890-94 - The Verge of Revolution
            Freedom on the Wallaby
            Waltzing Matilda

Trade Union

Unionism arrived wearing convict slave chains and after Eureka it was the Union Movement that took the freedom fight forward until we forced the Colonies to Federate.

1791 -  Convict Origins of the Trade Union Movement
1871 - NSW Trade Union Council established, Council, trade unions, Colony of NSW, workers,
1871 -  Eight Hour Picnic, Sydney,  Eight Hours’ League, Sydney, Captain Cook’s statue Hyde Park, Circular Quay, Manly Beach, Mr. John Stewart MLA
1873 - Female sweatshop crackdown Victoria, Supervision of Workrooms Factories Act, Factories cleaned up, hours reduced, female, under, age workers
1873 - Lothair mine strike in Clunes, Victoria, Victoria, Clunes , gold, Cornishmen, Chinese, Lothair Mine, Inspector Larner 
1873 - Ayers Rock is first sighted by Europeans.
1876 - South Australian Trade Unions legalised, South Australia, colony, trade unions, Attorney, General, Mr J. C, Bray
1878 - Seamen’s dispute, 1878, Seamen’s Union, Chinese crews, ASN Company
1879 - Intercolonial Trade Union Congress, 1879, Trade unions, colonies, Sydney Trades and Labour Council, Chinese immigration
1881 - NSW trade unions legal, NSW Parliament, conspiracy charges
1882 - Tailoresses’ Union formed, Female clothing workers, strike, Melbourne Trades Hall, Tailoresses’ Union, Melbourne
1886 - Queensland unions legal, Queensland, 1886, Premier Samuel Griffith, Trade Unions Act
1886 - Wharfies Strike, 1882, Sydney, Melbourne, Wharf Labourers’ Union, pay rise, strike, non, union men
1887 - The Boomerang, New Labour journal published, Queensland, trade union movement, Mr William Lane

William Lane
1888 - Newcastle Coal Miners Strike,  Sir Henry Parkes, New Lambton Pit, Adamstown, Amalgamated Miners’ Association, Adamstown Rioters
1889 - Exploitation of rag trade women, Women and children, eight hour day, Adelaide, Mr M. W. Green, Reverend H. M. Pollitt
1890 - Wharfies Strike,  Sydney, Shearers, Non, Union Labour, Circular Quay, mounted police, Riot Act, Machine, gun Macmillan
1890 - Maritime Strike, Mercantile Marine Officers' Association, Amalgamated Shearers' Union, Victoria, Melbourne Trades Hall Council Association,  tariff problem
1891 - Shearers Strike, Shearers, Queensland, Barcaldine, Eureka, Winton, Pastoralists’ Federal Council, Peace Preservation Bill
1892 - Broken Hill Strike, Broken Hill, Miners, non, union labour
1894 - Second Shearers Strike, Freedom on the Wallaby

Civil Prisons

1867 - St Helena Island Prison, Civil prison, Brisbane River, Queensland, Proserpine, Moreton Bay, quarantine station, hell hole of the Pacific

Colonial Immigration

1883 - Colonial Immigration, Some Views on Colonial Immigration 1883 - 1897

Non European Colonial Characters

1803 - Chinese in Australian Commercial History
1860 - Chinese Diggers
1839 - Outback Camels and Afghan Camelmen
1863 - Kanaka Traffic, South Sea Islands, indentured labourers,  Queensland cane fields, “Bully” Hayes

Bushrangers

Bushrangers Index

Penal Colony Hang-overs

Convicts

1863, Richard Dillingham, Convict, Van Dieman’s Land, David Lamb, Hobart
1868, The last convicts are Transported to Australia.
1869, Fenian Irish Convicts, John Boyle O’Reilly, Bunbury, WA, whaling ship Catalpa, Georgette, Superintendent of Water Police, Mr Stone, Fremantle
1877, Port Arthur Gaol closed, Tasmania, Port Arthur penal station, 1830, For the term of his natural life, Marcus Clarke
1886, WA Convict system closes, 1886, convict, Great Britain, Ireland, the Hougomont, Van Diemen’s Land

Colonial Characters

Bushman, 
Pioneers
Squatters
Squatter's Wife 
Timber Getter
Stockman,
Drover, 
Drover's Boy
High, plainsmen,

Social Movements

1835 - Australian Patriotic Association , 
1848 - Anti, Transportation League