Australian bark shield (Gweagal shield)
1770 · Resource
An Aboriginal bark shield associated with the Gweagal warriors who confronted James Cook's landing party at Botany Bay in 1770. A focus of debate over first contact, repatriation and whether it is really the shield taken at Botany Bay.
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Around 1770
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- American Revolution (1765)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)