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
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 1854
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- Wars of German Unification (1864)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)