Eureka Stockade
1854 · Event
Gold miners rebel against colonial authority at Ballarat, a foundational episode of Australian democracy.
On these timelines: Australia & the Pacific, Master
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- First Fleet lands at Botany Bay (1788)
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- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
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Around 1854
- Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace (1851)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Mughal Empire ends (1857)
- Gettysburg Address (1863)
- London sewer system / Bazalgette (1859)
- Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)