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
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Storming of the Bastille (1789)
- First British settlement in Australia (1788)