Australian gold rush
1851–1860 · Event
Discoveries in Victoria triple Australia's population in a decade.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master, British Empire
More from Australia & the Pacific
- Settlement of Australia (65000 BCE)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)
- Captain Cook's first Pacific voyage (1768)
- Maori arrive in New Zealand (1280)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Gallipoli campaign (1915)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- New Zealand grants women the vote (1893)
Around 1851
- American Civil War (1861)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)