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 and repatriation.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1770
- French Revolution (1789)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)