Some Known Conflicts in Australian Colonies, States and Territories
1770–1940s

H. Calvert, ‘A Deadly Encounter’, 1870s. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. (Picture digitally coloured.
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Colonial Frontier Conflicts–Timeline
The Timeline below lists some known dates on which, and locations where, conflicts–from individual injuries and killings to large massacres and wars– occurred between colonists and First Peoples. The Timeline begins before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 because there were earlier encounters between European explorers and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that led to violence, even death. More dates and locations of conflicts will be added as information comes to hand and time permits. Also as time permits, tables including more details about each conflict, where known, will be added to the website. (A massive task under way).

TG Moyle, The Wills Tragedy, 1861. The arrival of the Neighbouring Squatters & Men collecting and burying the Dead &c. After the Attack by the Blacks on H.S. Wills Esq’s Station Leichhardt District. Queensland, October 19th 1861, painting, watercolour, 47 x 74 cm. In the collection of the State Library of Queensland. This painting depicts the aftermath of the 1861 Cullinguringa (Cullin-La-Ringo) massacre near Springsure, Queensland in which Aboriginal people killed 19 colonists–the deadliest recorded attack against Europeans in the colonial frontier period.
The main sources for this list are included in individual lists for Australian States and Territories, in the Bibliography and in Journal Articles. Many thanks also to readers who contact the author with details of conflicts not yet included. This is invaluable information. If you would like to contact Australian Frontier Conflicts, fill out the form on the Contact page.
WARNING: Some of the names of places included in the following list, derived from geographic names registers, from historical and modern-day maps and other primary and secondary sources, are offensive and may be upsetting to some readers. These placenames reflect the attitudes, racism and activities of the people who gave these places English or other European names during the frontier period.
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1770 | 29 April | Botany Bay, NSW, Captain James Cook fires at an Aboriginal man, grazing his leg. |
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1788 | 24 January–10 March | 12 kms south of La Perouse, Sydney, NSW, French under command of La Perouse kill 20 Aboriginal people with musket fire. |
1788 | 22 February | Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, NSW, British marines fire on Eora people. |
1788 | 10 March | Sydney Cove, NSW, Eora wounded convicts in bush. |
1788 | May | Rushcutter's Bay, Sydney, NSW, convicts Samuel Davis and William Okey killed in reprisal for taking Eora canoes. |
1788 | 22 May | Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, NSW, convict speared and killed. |
1788 | 23 May | Blackwattle Bay, Sydney, NSW, convicts attack Eora killing an Aboriginal person. |
1788 | July | Sydney, NSW, convict speared in the head. |
1788 | 2 October | Botany Bay, NSW, Cupper Handley murdered and mutilated. |
1788 | December | Sydney, NSW, Arabanoo (Manly) captured. |
1789 | Toongabbie, Sydney, NSW, two Aboriginal adults killed. Child who survived, taken in, brought up by colonists. | |
1789 | April | Sydney Cove and vicinity, NSW, smallpox epidemic, possibly deliberately spread by colonists, kills about 1,000 Aboriginal people––up to half the local Aboriginal population. |
1789 | 26 September | Middle Head, Sydney, NSW, two of 50 Aboriginal men killed in attack on Henry Hacking. |
1789 | 25 November | Sydney, NSW, Bennelong and Colbee captured. |
c. 1790 | Sydney, NSW, John McIntyre suspected of killing at least one Aboriginal man. | |
1790 | New South Wales, Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars begin | |
1790 | New South Wales, punitive expedition against Pemulwuy, Tedbury and others begins. | |
1790 | 7 September | Manly, Sydney, NSW, Wileemarin, and Eora man, spears Governor Arthur Phillip in the shoulder. Phillip survives. |
1790 | 10 December | Sydney, NSW, John McIntyre, Governor Phillip’s gamekeeper, speared. |
1790 | 28 December | Sydney, NSW, British marines track and kill Bangai, an Eora man, after he takes potatoes from a local garden. |
1790–1800 | Sydney Cove War, British encroachment on Aboriginal land; more than 26 colonists and an unknown number of Aboriginal people die. | |
1790–1802 | Sydney Cove and vicinity, NSW, conflicts occur between colonists and Aboriginal people at locations such as Port Jackson, Prospect, Toongabbie, Georges River, Parramatta, Brickfield Hill, Hawkesbury River, Rosehill and Manly. | |
1791 | 20 January | Sydney, NSW, McIntyre dies of spear wound. |
1792 | Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, NSW, colonists kill two Dharug men in reprisal for murder of Sarah Hodgkinson's husband. | |
1792 | September | Torres Strait, QLD, ships under command of Captain William Bligh fire on 'native' canoes. |
1792–1902 | Propsect, Toongabbie, Georges River, Parramatta, Brickfield Hill, Hawkesbury River, NSW: colonists kidnap Aboriginal children. | |
1794 | Hawkesbury River, north of Sydney, NSW, an Aboriginal boy dragged over hot coals, thrown in the river, then shot. | |
1794–96 | Deerubbun (Hawkesbury) Region near Sydney, NSW conflicts between colonists and Aboriginal people | |
1795 | Richmond Hill Battle, near Sydney, NSW | |
1795 | 7 June | Parramatta or Hawkesbury River, NSW, Lt Governor William Paterson sends troops against Aboriginal people with instructions to kill as many as possible. Unknown number killed, 10 prisoners taken. |
1797 | Moruya, south coast, NSW, Yuin people kill 13 survivors of Sydney Cove wreck. | |
1797 | Port Jackson; Georges River; Toongabbie, NSW, Governor King orders reprisal against Aboriginal attacks at these locations. | |
1797 | March | Toongabbie; Parramatta, NSW, conflict involving Pemulwuy, Aboriginal clan members, armed soldiers and colonists. Up to 50 Aboriginal people killed, one soldier speared. |
1799 | Newcastle, NSW, unknown number of Aboriginal men shot after asking for axes in exchange for use of their land. | |
1799 | Rose Hill, near Parramatta, NSW, troops sent out after Pemulwuy; five Aboriginal men killed. Pemulwuy injured in the head, taken to hospital but escapes. | |
1799 | 16 July | Point Skirmish (South Point), Boorabee (Bribie) Island, QLD, Captain Matthew Flinders sails with Bongaree and crew on the Norfolk from Glass House Bay to Boorabee (Bribie) Island. After landing from a smaller craft, they encounter Aboriginal people, one of whom tries to remove Flinders' hat. The Aboriginal man throws a spear near the boat. Flinders fires his musket and wounds the Aboriginal man. Flinders names the spot Point Skirmish (now known as South Point). |
1799–1805 | Hawkesbury–Parramatta, near Sydney, NSW, Black Wars | |
1800s | Grafton, NSW, two Aboriginal men shot near showground. | |
1801 | Georges River, south of Sydney, NSW, Pemulwuy spears a colonist. | |
1802 | 2 June | Parramatta, NSW, Pemulwuy shot, decapitated, head sent to Sir Joseph Banks in England. |
1802–1836 | Kangaroo Island, SA, whalers, sealers, runaway convicts, ships' deserters, farmers and other colonists visit or take over land on Kangaroo Island. Many of the men abduct Aboriginal women by force from the mainland and Tasmania. Lawlessness prevails. Emus wiped out on the island. Kangaroos and seals hunted to near extinction. | |
1803 | Port Phillip district, VIC | |
1803 | October | Corio Bay, near Melbourne, VIC |
1803–1830 | Tasmania, Black Wars | |
1804 | Newcastle, NSW, more conflict between colonists and Aboriginal people | |
1804 | 3 May | Risdon Cove,TAS Large number (30 or more) of Big River people killed and wounded in River Derwent, north of Hobart, in encounters with colonists (including convicts) and the military. Soldiers and colonists use rifles, pistols, muskets and a carronade loaded with grapeshot against the Aboriginal people, armed only with spears, who were apparently hunting kangaroos. |
1804 | 22 July | Jervis Bay, NSW, sailors from the Conquest kill Aboriginal people. |
1805 | September | Mangrove Flat (Gentleman's Halt) opposite Spencer, NSW, two Aboriginal men, Branch Jack and Woglomigh, killed. |
1805 | 27 October | Jervis Bay, NSW, report of Europeans speared. Possible reprisal attack for killings by Conquest sailors. |
1805 | 5 December | Jervis Bay, NSW, Aboriginal people attack survivors of Fly shipwreck. Thomas Evans killed, Rushworth speared. |
1806 | 15 March | Twofold Bay, NSW, sealers from the shipwrecked whaler, George, massacre Aboriginal people. |
1806 | 6 April | Twofold Bay, NSW, report that sealers, crew of George, have shot and killed nine Aboriginal people, hung bodies from trees. |
1808 | 15 May | Batemans, Bay, NSW, three of five crew of the Fly reported murdered by Aboriginal people at Batemans Bay. |
1808 | October | Hawkesbury area, NSW, clash between colonists and Aborigines on Singleton's farm. Leg injury to servant, one Aboriginal person killed, others wounded. |
1809 | 26 September | Bond Farm, George's River, NSW, skirmish between Pemulwuy's son, Tedbury, and Meredith and other farmers. |
1810 | 5 February | Parramatta, NSW, Edward Luttrell shoots Tedbury. |
1814 | May/June | Appin area, NSW, skirmishes between colonists and Aboriginal people. |
1815 | Bathurst, NSW, possible killing of an escaped convict by Aboriginal people | |
1816 | March–May | Cumberland Plain, NSW, Aboriginal people murder Rev. Thomas Hassall's shepherd, Bromley. |
1816 | March–May | Cumberland Plain, NSW, Governor Macquarie's undeclared war begins against Aboriginal people. |
1816 | 16 April | Appin, near Cataract Gorge, west of Sydney, NSW, massacre of many Aboriginal people. |
1819 | Bathurst area, NSW, spearing of Lt William Lawson's horse. | |
27 October 1820 | Newcastle, NSW, Runaway convict, John Kirby, seriously wounds Burragong, 'King "Jack, Chief of the Newcastle tribe"', with a knife, while Aboriginal men are trying to bring in Kirby and another convict, James Thompson to British authorities. Burragong subsequently dies from his wounds. Kirby is charged and executed for Burragong's murder. Kirby was the first European in New South Wales to be executed for the murder of an Aboriginal person. | |
1821–39 | The Falls area, NSW, period of conflict between colonists and Aborigines | |
1821 | February | Billyeena Station, Cudgegong River, north-east of Mudgee, NSW, George Cox leads a shooting party against Aboriginal people. Unknown number shot. |
1821 | 6 February | Bathurst area, NSW, Aborigines kill Private James King. |
c. 1822 | Bathurst area, NSW, Aborigines kill convict for rape of an Aboriginal girl. | |
1822 | Near Bathurst, NSW, Windradyne leads Wiradjuri against colonists. | |
1822 | New South Wales, large-scale killings of Aboriginal people | |
1822 | "Claremont", William Lee's Farm, 10 km north-east of Bathurst, NSW, Aborigines kill a shepherd. | |
1822 | Billyeena Station, Cudgegong River, north-east of Mudgee, NSW, Aboriginal warning attack | |
1822 | Swallow Creek (government station), NSW, Aboriginal attack on station | |
1822 | 15 April | Illawarra area, NSW, Seth Hawker murders an Aboriginal woman. He is tried but acquitted. |
1823–24 | Black War of Bathurst, NSW (some individual incidents listed below). | |
1823 | October, November | Swallow Creek, Molong, Wellington districts, NSW, Aboriginal people attack stations in these districts and those of Wylde and Marsden and Palmer's "Toulon" station west of Bathurst. |
1823 | November | Swallow Creek (government station), NSW, Aboriginal attacks force abandonment of station. |
1824 | Bungendore (Bungendaw) run, NSW, Captain Richard Brooks's stockmen abduct two Aboriginal girls, Weereewaa people assemble to avenge their kidnapping. | |
1824 | c. January | Bathurst area, NSW, Windradyne captured, imprisoned at Bathurst for a month. Colonists use arsenic-laced flour and damper to poison hungry Aboriginal people. |
1824 | March | Brymair, Capertee Valley, near Rylstone, NSW, Dabee massacre Shepherds abduct a young Aboriginal woman holding her for days. She escapes. Male relatives of the woman retaliate, killing the shepherds, burning down their hut, killing and eating some of their sheep. In a punitive attack, a military detachment shoot every Aboriginal man, woman and child they can find. Only a few Aboriginal ;people lived to tell this story. |
1824 | March | Kelso, near Bathurst, NSW, 'Potato Field Incident': Aborigines offered potatoes, return next day for more, fired upon while gathering potatoes. Several Aboriginal people shot dead, some wounded. Incident sparks retaliations led by Windradyne. |
1824 | 19 March | Swallow Creek (government station), NSW, reoccupied. Up to 60 Aboriginal men attack, two killed. "Taylor", Columbummero and Callalbegary captured. |
1824 | May | Near Mudgee, NSW at William Lane's farm, seven colonists killed. |
1824 | 24 May | Warren Gunyah Station, Wattle Flat near Bathurst, NSW, two stock keepers killed; one speared. |
1824 | 24 May | Winburndale Rivulet, north of Bathurst, NSW, shepherds killed, huts destroyed, sheep killed. |
1824 | 31 May | Near Mudgee, NSW at William Lane's farm, five colonists in punitive expedition against Aboriginal people, but claim not to have seen any. Later admit to killing three Aboriginal women in a 'skirmish' with 30 warriors bearing spears. Colonists tried for manslaughter but acquitted. |
1824 | 31 May | Mrs Hassell's station, O'Connell Plains, NSW, Aboriginal men attack a stockman, wounding him twice with spears. |
1824 | May? | Murdering Hut, Millah Murrah Station, south-west of Wattle Flat, near Bathurst, NSW, Samuel Terry builds homestead on a bora ground, poisons Aboriginal people with arsenic. |
1824 | May? | Millah Murrah Station, NSW, Windradyne leads Aboriginal revenge attack, three colonists killed. |
1824 | June | North of Bathurst, NSW, colonists' retaliation; unknown number of Aboriginal women killed. |
1824 | Bef. July | William Lawson's Upper Station, Campbell River, NSW, four stock keepers killed. |
1824 | Bef. July | North-east of Rockley, near Bathurst, NSW, two stock keepers killed. |
1824 | 12 August | Emu Plains, Sidmouth Valley, Two Mile Creek near Bathurst, NSW, farm labourer speared. Colonists retaliate, three Aboriginal women shot dead. Other Aboriginal people killed. |
1824 | 14 August | Governor Brisbane proclaims Martial Law, Bathurst area, NSW |
1824 | 14 August–11 December | Martial Law in place against the Wiradjuri, Bathurst area, NSW |
1824 | 26 August | Mill Post Station, Bathurst, NSW, hut keeper killed, hut destroyed in retaliation after station set up on sacred site and stock yards built on corroboree ground. |
1824 | 27 August | Warren Gunyah Station, Wattle Flat, Bathurst, NSW, three shepherds killed, huts burnt. |
1824 | August | Millah Murrah Station, north of Bathurst, NSW, three Aboriginal women and a boy killed in retribution for killing shepherds. |
1824 | 6 September | Mudgee, NSW, colonists kill between five and 16 Aboriginal men in retaliation for dispersing cattle. |
1824 | September | Bell Falls Gorge, NSW, massacre of Aboriginal people believed to have taken place during Major James Morisset's punitive expedition. |
1824 | September–November | Battle of Bathurst, NSW: up to 1,000 Aboriginal people believed to have perished. |
1824 | Billiwillinga station, Mt Rankin area on banks of the Macquarie River near Bathurst, NSW, after the Proclamation of Martial Law, group of about 30 Aboriginal people (mostly women and children) massacred when military offer them food. | |
1824 | Capertee Valley, north of Bathurst, NSW, military party massacre unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1824 | Clear Creek headwaters, about 15 km north of Bathurst, NSW, shepherd killed, large numbers of Aboriginal people rounded up and killed in retaliation. | |
1824 | Cox's landholding near Mudgee, NSW, Aboriginal people, including the warrior, Blucher, shot when driving cattle off this land. | |
1824 | Raineville Station, south-east of O'Connell near Bathurst, NSW, three Aboriginal men murdered in retaliation for killing stock and rushing a mob of sheep. | |
1825 | Hunter region, NSW, about five 'clashes' between colonists and Aborigines in the Hunter. | |
1825 | 28 October | Martindale, south of Denman, NSW, Robert Greig and a convict worker killed during an Aboriginal raid. |
1825 | October/November | Putty, NSW, soldiers pursue Aborigines who attacked at Putty. |
1826 | Bef. 6 May | Inverary Park Station, Lake George, NSW, stock keeper speared to death for trying to abduct an Aboriginal man's wife. |
1826 | June | Edinglassie, Hunter region, NSW, Aborigines wound shepherd. |
1826 | June | Ravensworth, Hunter region, NSW, hut keeper killed. |
1826 | July/August | Fal Brook Farm, near Singleton, NSW, Aborigines attempt to plunder farm; two colonists wounded. |
1826 | July–16 August | Scone, Muswellbrook, Denman and Singleton, NSW, mounted police capture Aboriginal people, execute some. |
1826 | August | Merton district, Hunter region, NSW, mounted police wantonly maltreat Aboriginal people, some arrested. |
1826 | 28–29 August | Upper Hunter region, NSW, 200 Aboriginal people visit Merton in response; 11 to 15 proceed to Fal Brook via Ravensworth, burn grass at several farms. Two colonists killed, two wounded. |
1826 | 31 August–1 September | Upper Hunter, NSW, magistrate Scott leads punitive expedition of 14 men; 18 Aboriginal people killed. More than 10 major and minor 'collisions' between colonists and Aboriginal people in the Hunter in 1826 according to magistrates. |
1826 | December | Bank Hill Farm, TAS |
1826 | March | Great Swanport, TAS |
1826 | April | Mount Augustus, TAS |
1826 | May | Sally Peak, TAS |
1827 | Near Cootralanta Lake, Monaro region, NSW, Aborigines attack Richard Brooks Jnr and party, scattering cattle later found at "Gejizric" (Gegedzerick) Flat near Berridale. | |
1827 | June | Dairy Plains, TAS |
1827 | June | Laycock Plains, TAS |
1827 | June | Quamby Brook, TAS |
1827 | June | Quamby Bluff, TAS |
1827 | June | Blackmans River, TAS |
1827 | December | Sorell Valley, TAS |
1827 | December | Brumby Creek, TAS |
1827 | December | Dairy Plains, TAS |
1827 | 11 December | Wellington, NSW, George Brown shoots Aboriginal girl, who came to the door with other children, asking for food. |
1828 | Near Lake Bathurst, NSW, two of Edward Hall's stockmen killed, Aboriginal people suspected of killings. | |
1828 | 10 February | Cape Grim, TAS |
1828 | March | Miles Opening, TAS |
1828 | March | Bullock Hunting Ground, TAS |
1828 | April | Elizabeth River, TAS |
1828 | July | Eastern Tiers, TAS |
1828 | October | Jordan River, TAS |
1829 | January | Tooms Lake, TAS |
1829 | January | Break O’Day Plains, TAS |
1829 | January | St Pauls River, TAS |
1829 | February | West Tamar area, TAS |
1829 | March | Cataract Gorge, near Launceston, TAS |
1829 | June | Pittwater, TAS |
1829 | September | Ben Lomond, TAS |
1829 | October | Ouse River, TAS |
1830s | Coolac near Gundagai, NSW | |
1830s | Ovens River near Wangaratta, VIC | |
1830 | February | Clyde/Ouse Rivers, TAS |
1830 | May | Fremantle, WA |
1830s–40s | Murrumbidgee River area, NSW (some locations below) | |
Duck Bend, near Narrandera, NSW | ||
Green Swamp, near Buckinbong Homestead, near Narrandera, NSW | ||
Hulong (Ulong) Sandhill, near Narrandera, NSW | ||
Massacre (Murdering) Island, near Narrandera, NSW (see below under 1841) | ||
Poison(ed) Waterholes Creek, Sturt Highway, near Narrandera, NSW | ||
1830–50 | Port Phillip District Wars, VIC | |
1831 | 30 April | Murray River mouth, SA |
Mid-1831 | Stradbroke Island, QLD | |
1831–32 | Moreton Island, QLD | |
1832 | Perth area, WA, Yagan and others fight colonists. | |
1832 | November | Stradbroke Island, QLD |
1832 | 18 December | Murramarang headland, north of Bateman's Bay, NSW |
c. 1833 | Clontarf Hill (Hamilton Hill Swamp),south of Fremantle, WA, massacre of Aboriginal people believed to have occurred during Acting Governor Ellis's search for Yagan. | |
1833 | 11 July | Perth area, WA, Yagan killed. |
1833–34 | Convincing Ground, between Portland and the Surrey River, VIC | |
1834 | Acton peninsula, ACT, then in NSW. Now National Museum of Australia, Canberra site. | |
1834 | 28 October | Battle of Pinjarra, WA |
1834 | Fairy Bower Falls, now in Morton National Park, near Bundanoon, NSW, believed from oral history to be a site where Aboriginal people were massacred. | |
1835 | Mt Mackenzie, near the Gloucester River, NSW | |
1835 | 25 April | Near Tabratong, NSW, Richard Cunningham, botanist with Thomas Mitchell's expedition, killed by Aboriginal people 84 kms south-east of Nyngan. |
1836 | 24 May | Mt Dispersion, between Mildura and Robinvale, VIC |
1836 | July | Werribee River, 35 kms south-west of Melbourne, VIC |
1836 | July | Williamstown, 10 kms south-west of Melbourne, VIC |
1836 | August? | York area, WA |
1836 | 17 October | Barwon River, Barrabool Hills, 20 kms south-east of Colac, VIC |
1837 | Encounter Bay, near Victor Harbour, SA | |
1837 | Geelong area, VIC | |
1837 | Gravesend, west of Warialda, NSW | |
1837 | Western VIC | |
1837 | February | Birregurra, near Colac, VIC |
1837 | 28 March | Cowie Creek, Geelong, VIC |
1837 | July | Vasse, WA |
1837 | November | Leigh River, 60 kms west of Geelong, VIC |
1837–38 | Summer | Near Golf Hill Station, Yarrowee River, north of Inverleigh, VIC |
1837–1844 | Port Fairy area, VIC | |
1838 | Central Victoria | |
1838 | Crampton’s Corner, QLD | |
Mid-1838 | Gwydir River, NSW | |
1838 | Berpengary, QLD, (26 miles, (c. 42 kms) from Nundah), Aboriginal people attack Moravian missionary Pastor Gottfried Haussman. He is badly wounded but escapes. | |
1838 | Kilcoy Station, north-west of Moreton Bay, QLD | |
1838 | Perth, WA | |
1838 | Tarrone Station near Port Fairy, VIC | |
1838 | Terry Hie Hie, NSW | |
1838 | 26 January | Vinegar Hill, Waterloo (Slaughterhouse/Millie) Creek, south-west of Moree, NSW |
1838 | March | On the way to Port Adelaide, SA |
1838 | 12 March | Torrens River, Adelaide, SA, coroner finds labourer, Enoch Pegler, was speared to death by an unknown Aboriginal man or men about 8 March. |
1838 | March/April? | West of Bendigo, VIC |
1838 | 4 April | Learmonth Station, 13 kms south of Ballarat, VIC |
1838 | 10 April | Banks of the Yarra River, Hawthorn, Melbourne, (now site of Scotch College), VIC |
1838 | 11 April | Battle of Broken River (Faithfull Massacre) near Benalla, VIC, additional killings of Aboriginal people followed at Murchison and Wangaratta. |
1838 | June | Merino Downs Station near Henty, VIC |
1838 | June | North-east of Malmsbury near Kyneton, VIC |
1838 | June | Waterloo Plains, VIC |
1838 | 10 June | Myall Creek Massacre, near Inverell, NSW |
Mid-1838 | Gwydir River, NSW | |
1838 | July | Confluence of Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers, NSW |
1838 | July | Pyrenees Range above Trawalla, VIC |
1838 | July | Thomas Learmont’s station, Addington, 20 kms north-west of Ballarat, VIC |
1838 | Winter | Darlington Station, 16 kms north-west of Lancefield, VIC |
1838 | October | Merino Downs Station near Henty, VIC |
1838 | October | Spring Valley (Murndal), Wannon River near Merino Station, VIC |
1838? | October | Murdering Flat, Clover Flat, Wannon River, near Casterton, VIC |
1838 | November | Spring Valley (Murndal), Wannon River near Merino Station, VIC |
1838–1839 | Central Victoria | |
1838/39? | Tamworth, NSW | |
1838–1841 | Bathurst, NSW (Wiradjuri Wars) | |
c. 1839 | Glenormiston Station, near Terang, VIC | |
1839 | Lake Colac, 5 kms north of Colac, VIC | |
1839 | Longhorne's Ferry, Victor Harbour, SA | |
1839 | Tamworth, NSW | |
1839 or 1840 | Between Colban and Campaspe Rivers near Bendigo, VIC | |
1839 | Murdering Gully (Puuroyup), Mount Emu Creek, Camperdown district, VIC | |
1839 | 8 January | Brewarrena (Brewarrina) Station, NSW, hut keeper, Irish convict Dennis Denay, ambushed and killed. |
1839 | February | Maiden Hills, near Lexton, VIC |
1839 | 22 February | Near Brillinball Station, Narrandera area, NSW, John Williams, Michael Byrne's convict servant, speared to death. |
1839 | 28 February | Near Billinbah, Murrumbidgee River, NSW, Aboriginal attack on two convicts, one Aboriginal man shot. |
1839 | April | 11 miles (c. 17.7 kms) north-east of Adelaide, SA |
1839 | May–June | Campaspe Plains massacre, Campaspe Creek, VIC |
1839 | 12 June | Adelaide, SA, hanging of two Kaurna men for murder |
1839 | 20 June | Lake Boga, 10 kms south-east of Swan Hill, VIC |
1839 | 22 June | Mount Ida Creek, near Heathcote, VIC |
1839 | July | Coleraine, VIC |
1839 | July | Gerangamete, VIC |
1839 | July | Mia Mia, VIC, bodies of murdered Aboriginal people thrown into a waterhole in the creek below the local school, according to oral history. |
1839 | July | Mt Alexander, 30 kms south-east of Bendigo, VIC |
1839 | August | North Yanco Station at Cudgel Creek, near Narrandera, NSW, Aboriginal people attacked James Byrne, people chased across river. |
1839 | October | Morgan (Great South Bend), SA, Aboriginal people attack an overlanders party. Overseer Thomas Young killed. Overlanders kill 11 Aboriginal people in retaliation. |
1839 | October | Murray River, above Lake Alexandrina, SA, overlander Peter Snodgrass is attacked. Several Aboriginal people wounded. Sheep driven off. |
1839 | November | Darling River, NSW, overlander Alexander Buchanan's party attacked while crossing the Darling River. A number of Aboriginal people killed, many wounded. Buchanan attacks Aboriginal camp after sheep speared. |
November | Spring Cart Gully, two miles (c. 3.2 kms) north-east of Morgan, SA | |
1839 or 1840 | The Blood-hole (Bloody Creek), Middle Creek, near Glengower Creek, western VIC | |
1839–1840 | Between Coliban and Campaspe Rivers near Bendigo, VIC | |
1839–40 | Goulburn District, VIC? | |
1839–42/7 | Eumeralla War, Mount Napier Station, 20 kms south-east of Hamilton, VIC | |
1839–42 | Port Lincoln, SA, Aboriginal resistance to colonists | |
1839–1842 | Mount Rouse Station or Weerangourt Station, VIC | |
1840s? | Blackadder/Cassons Creek-Red Rock area, NSW | |
1840s? | Green Hills, bank of Red Rock River opposite Red Rock and Station Creek, NSW | |
1840s | Laidley, NSW | |
1840s | Clarence River district, NSW, as the frontier expanded, initially peaceful relations between colonists and Aboriginal people broke down. | |
1840s | Avon River, near York, WA, fighting between colonists and Aboriginal people continues. | |
1840s | Clarence River stations, NSW, in the early 1840s, Aboriginal people from the area between Dorrigo and Kangaroo Creek, launch small attacks on runs in the Clarence River district. | |
1840s | Kangaroo Creek (east of Nymboida), NSW, Aboriginal people continue attacks on colonists holding runs around Kangaroo Creek. | |
1840s | Murdering Flat near Tintaldra, VIC | |
1840s | Murdering Flat, Tooma River near Greg Greg, NSW | |
1840s | Port Fairy, VIC | |
1840s | Wire Fence (Minnie Water), NSW | |
1840s | Red Rock, NSW | |
c. 1840 | Bogan River, NSW, William Lee's run, Aborigines attack stockmen while building a stockyard. Three stockmen killed, buried in stockyard. | |
Early 1840 | Near Mt Rouse, south-western VIC | |
Early 1840 | Mount Napier Station, 20 kms south of Hamilton, VIC | |
1840 | Grampians, VIC | |
1840 | Long Lagoon Station, QLD | |
1840 | Mount Cole, VIC | |
1840 | January | Coliban River, near Sutton Grange, VIC |
1840 | 13 January | Yering Station, Yarra Glen, VIC |
1840 | February | Merino Downs Station, Wannon River, near Henty, VIC |
1840 | February | Western Australia |
1840 | Bef. February | Tahara Station, Wannon River/McLeods Creek, VIC |
1840 | March | Merino Downs Station, Wannon River near Henty, VIC |
1840 | 8 March | Hamilton, VIC |
1840 | 8 March | Fighting Hills, the Hummocks, near Wando Vale, VIC |
1840 | 10 March | Konong-Woontong Station, VIC |
1840 | April | Merino Downs Station, Wannon River, VIC |
1840 | 1 April | Fighting Waterholes, near Konongwootong Reservoir, VIC |
1840 | 31 May | Near Mt Lindesay, QLD, Aboriginal people kill surveyor Staplyton and his assistant Tuck. |
1840 | June | Colac, VIC |
1840 | June | Muston’s station, east of Mount Rouse, VIC |
1840 | June | Nangeela Station, Glenelg River, near Casterton, VIC |
1840 | 9 June | Near Bowman and Yaldwyn’s run, central VIC |
1840 | June–September | The Grange Station, southern Grampians, 30 kms north-west of Hamilton, VIC |
1840 | July | Western District, VIC |
1840 | August | Henry Dutton’s run, near Ararat, VIC |
1840 | 23 August | Maria Creek near the Coorong (The Coorong Massacre), SA |
1840 | Spring | Middle Creek, Glengower (Campbelltown), VIC |
1840 | October | Dr Officer’s station, near Lake Bolac, 50 kms south of Ararat, western VIC |
1840 | October | Boisdale and Bushy Park stations, 25 kms north of Sale, VIC |
1840 | October–December | Nuntin Station, Gippsland, VIC |
1840 | November | Murdering Flat, Wannon River, between Sandford Bridge and Glenelg River junction, VIC |
1840 | 21 December | Pyrenees Range, VIC |
1840 | 22 December | Boney Point, Gippsland, VIC |
1840–1841 | Woodlands Station, Wimmera River near Crowlands, VIC | |
1840–1850 | Gippsland, VIC (see also individual locations below): | |
Boole Boole, Gippsland, VIC | ||
Holland's Landing, VIC | ||
Lake's Entrance, VIC | ||
Medusa Point, VIC | ||
The Heart, VIC | ||
1840s–50s | Salt Creek near Mt Muirhead, SA | |
c. 1841 | South-western VIC | |
c. 1841 | Piccaninny Waterhole, Springbank, Glenelg River, south of Casterton, VIC | |
1841 | Butchers (Boxes) Creek, Gippsland, VIC | |
1841 | Darkie (Darkie’s) Point, New England, NSW | |
1841 | Glenormiston, VIC | |
1841 | Near Lake Lonsdale, VIC | |
1841 | Lexington, VIC | |
1841 | Maffra, VIC | |
1841 | Massacre (Murdering Island), Murrumbidgee River, about 8 km south-east of Narrandera, NSW, local landholders massacre an unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1841 | Mt Bainbridge, VIC | |
1841 | New England Area, NSW | |
1841 | Orara River, NSW | |
1841 | Port Fairy, VIC | |
1841 | Portland, VIC | |
1841 | Junction Wannon and Glenelg Rivers, VIC | |
1841 | January | Gleeson Run, Hutt River, Clare, SA |
1841 | January | Morphet Run, Wakefield River, 20 kms north-east of Balaklava, SA |
1841 | February | South Australia, two Ngarrindgeri men hanged for murders of Maria shipwreck survivors. |
1841 | 7 February | 14 Mile Creek (Far Creek/Glenmona Station), Bet Bet Creek, west of Maryborough, VIC |
1841 | 7 February | Loddon River, VIC |
1841 | March | Mount Cole, VIC |
1841 | April | Rufus River, NSW, overlanders Henry Inman and Henry Field attacked after crossing the Rufus River. South Australian Governor Lawler despatches a punitive police party but recalls it. A retaliatory party of colonists encounters 300 Aboriginal people, kills eight in a fight. Colonists repulsed, return to Adelaide. |
1841 | 1 April | Central Victoria |
1841 | 22 April | Clarence River, NSW, squatter Peter Cunningham Pagan, speared to death about a mile from his hut, after an armed pursuit of Aboriginal people who enter the hut looking for food as it becomes scarce after the arrival of colonists in the area. |
1841 | April/May | Clarence River area, NSW, colonists shoot many Aboriginal people in retribution for the spearing of Pagan. Mundi, then a child, is shot through an ear. He is one of only a few Aboriginal people to survive the attack. |
1841 | 13 May | Lake Bonney at Langhorn's Crossing, Rufus River, 22 kms west of Renmark, SA |
1841 | June | Near Mount Sturgeon Station, Wannon River, VIC |
1841 | June | Vasse region, WA, Wonnerup Massacre |
1841 | 2 June | Konongwootong Creek, near Coleraine, VIC |
1841 | June–July | Burrumbeep, south of Ararat, VIC |
1841 | July | Burrumbeep, south of Ararat, VIC |
1841 | July | Hall’s outstation, Hall’s Gap, VIC |
1841 | July | Good Morning Bill Creek, near Mount William, VIC |
1841 | 31 July | Brisbane, QLD, Merridoo and Neugavil wrongfully executed, on a cross-arm of the Brisbane windmill (observatory tower), for murders of Stapylton and Tuck. |
1841 | July–August | William Kirk’s station, Burrumbeep, VIC |
1841 | August | Mt Emu, VIC |
1841 | August | Mt William, VIC |
1841 | 25 August | Murray River, VIC |
1841 | 27 August | Lake Minninup, near Augusta, WA |
1841 | 27 August | Rufus River Massacre, NSW |
1841 | About 6 October | Near Harmers Haven, near Watson's Hut, about 1.5 kilometres west of Cape Paterson, VIC. Tasmanian Aborigines shoot and kill two whalers, William Cook and a man called Yankee. Various theories for the killings exist: self-defence, mistaken identity or retribution for abuse or the murder of an Aboriginal woman's husband. (More information in the Victorian Timeline). |
1841 | 27 October | Leighton Station, Hopkins River, VIC |
1841 | December | Port Fairy, VIC |
1841–42 | Burrumbeep, VIC | |
1841–1842 | Barton Station, head of Mount William Creek, VIC | |
1841–1842 | Lexington, La Rose and Mokepilly Stations, VIC | |
1842 | Balaklava, Wakefield River district, SA | |
1842 | Brisbane Valley, QLD | |
1842 | Bruthen Creek, Gippsland, VIC | |
1842 | Callandoon district, McIntyre River, QLD, two hut keepers killed during a series of Aboriginal attacks.Pastoralists and police retaliate. | |
1842 | Dutton’s farm, Port Lincoln, SA | |
1842 | Evans Head (Goanna Headland) Massacre, NSW | |
1842 | Hindmarsh Valley c. 10 kms from Port Lincoln, SA | |
1842 | Kilcoy Station, QLD | |
1842 | Net nat uungo, near Donald McKenzie’s station, Crawford River, south-western VIC | |
1842 | Nyngan Massacre, north of Nyngan, NSW | |
1842 | Pelican Creek Tragedy, north of Coraki, NSW | |
1842 | Port Lincoln area, SA | |
1842 | Skull Creek, Gippsland, VIC | |
1842 | Streaky Bay, SA | |
1842 | Near Tabratong, Bogan River, NSW, severe conflict between William Lee's men and Aboriginal people. | |
1842 | Warndaa, Boggy Gully, near Black Swamp, west of Merrang House, south-western VIC | |
1842 | Weereangourt or Mount Rouse Station, VIC | |
1842 | Whiteside, Morton Bay, QLD | |
1842–?? | Mt Remarkable, Melrose and Woolmington, near Port Augusta, SA | |
1842 | 3 January | Eumeralla Station, south-western VIC |
1842 | February | Tarrone Station, Moyne River, 19 kms north of Port Fairy, VIC |
1842 | 3 February | Bungaree Station, Clare, SA |
1842 | 10 February | Kapunda, Light River, SA |
1842 | 24 February | Lubra Creek, Caramut Station, near Lubra Creek/ Penshurst-Caramut Road crossing, VIC |
1842 | 24 February | Muston’s Creek, VIC |
1842 | 24 April | Biddle’s station, Port Lincoln, SA |
1842 | 24 April | Coffin Bay, 50 kms north-west of Port Lincoln, SA |
Mid-1842 | Biddle’s station, Port Lincoln, SA | |
1842 | August | Tahara or Spring Valley Station, south-western VIC |
1842 | September | Mount Rouse, VIC |
1842 | October | Mount Shadwell Station, south-west VIC |
1842 | October | Tarrone Station, Moyne River, 19 kms north of Port Fairy, VIC |
1842 | 10 December | Port Fairy, VIC |
Bef 1843 | Grampians, VIC | |
Bef 1843 | Darlot, VIC | |
Bef 1843 | Lake Colac, VIC | |
1842 or 1843 | Spring Creek Station, 16 kms south-west of Caramut, VIC | |
1842–1852 | Mandandanji Land War, southern QLD | |
1843 | Fitzroy River, VIC | |
1843 | Grampians, VIC | |
1843 | Mudall Station, Bogan River, NSW, Aboriginal people attack stockmen while moving sheep on Balfour's holding. Two stockmen killed. Holdings abandoned after three more stockmen killed. | |
1843 | Portland Bay area, VIC | |
1843 | Warrigal Creek, Gippsland, VIC | |
1843 | Western district, VIC | |
1843–1849 | Castlemaddie or Ettrick pastoral runs, VIC | |
1843 | January | Broughton River, near Port Pirie, SA |
1843 | 7 April | Port Lincoln, SA, Nultia publicly executed on Biddle’s station. |
1843 | 7 April | Bungaree Station, Clare, SA |
1843 | June | Neighbourhood of Bungaree Station, Clare, SA |
1843 | June | Warrigal Creek, VIC |
1843 | August | Koroite Station, Wannon River, VIC |
1843 | August | Wannon River, VIC |
1843 | 6 August | Victoria Range, western VIC |
1843 | 13 August | Near Mount Zero, VIC |
1843 | September | Headwaters, Crawford River, south-western VIC |
1843 | 12 Sept | Battle of One Tree Hill (Mt Tabletop), near Toowoomba, QLD (led by Multuggerah) |
1843 | October | On road between Portland and Kanawalla Station, Wannon River, south-west VIC |
1843 | 9 November | Glenelg River near Harrow, VIC |
1844 | Bluff Rock, near Tenterfield, NSW, conflicting versions of the details of Bluff Rock massacre exist. It is believed 'settlers' threw Aboriginal people from the rock in a reprisal. | |
1844 | Deepwater area, north of Glen Innes, NSW | |
1844 | Maffra, VIC | |
1844 | 17 October | Near Bolivia Station, Deepwater area, NSW |
1844–45 | Port Augusta, SA (Port Augusta War) | |
1844 | 25 January | Mullagh Station, 11 kilometres north of Harrow, VIC |
1844 | 15 April | Grampian Range, VIC |
1844 | May | Grampian Range, VIC |
1844 | 15 May | 100 kilometres north of the Pyrenees Range, VIC |
1844 | July | Adelaide, SA |
1844 | 13–14 July | Mt Bryan, 30 kms north-north-east of Burra, SA |
1844 | August | Mt Gambier, SA |
1844 | 19 October | 40 kilometres north of Longerenong Station, VIC |
1844 | November | Near Lake Leake, SA |
1845 | Deepwater, north of Glen Innes, NSW | |
1845 | Douralie Creek, Macleay region, NSW | |
c. 1845 | Grampians, VIC | |
1845 | Gilbert River, far north QLD, explorer Leichhart's naturalist, Gilbert fatally speared. | |
1845 | Hendersons Creek, Macleay area, NSW | |
1845 | Kunderang Station, Upper Macleay, NSW | |
1845 | Mt Remarkable, 45 kms north of Port Pirie, SA | |
1845 | Quorn, Gawler Ranges, SA | |
1845 | Upper Macleay River, NSW, Aboriginal people killed under a cliff. | |
1845 | Wivenhoe, Brisbane Valley, QLD, John Uhr killed during an Aboriginal attack. | |
c. 1845 | Henderson's Creek, Macleay area, NSW | |
c. 1845 | Sheep Station Bluff, Macleay area, NSW | |
c. 1845 | Wabra Station, Macleay area, NSW | |
1845 | 15 April | Deepwater area, NSW |
1845 | May | Near Rivoli Bay, 70 kms north-west of Mt Gambier, SA |
1845 | July | Mt Arapiles, VIC |
1845 | July | Victoria Plains, WA |
1845 | 11 July | West of Horsham, VIC |
1845 | December | Western Port, VIC |
Bef 1846 | Streaky Bay, SA | |
Early 1846 | Outside Anderson's Inn, Burbank (Lexton), VIC | |
1846 | Crystal Brook, near Mt Remarkable, SA | |
1846 | "Murdering Stumps", Tabratong Station, NSW, Aboriginal reprisal attack on William Lee's station employees at night. All but one employee killed. Dates for this incident in the Tabratong area vary from 1841, 1842, 1846 or 'before 1850'. The varying dates and sometimes differing descriptions for this conflict suggest that there were more than one that occurred on the Bogan in the 1840s to 1850s. | |
1846 | Strathalbyn, 22.99 kms (14.29 miles) from Mt Barker, SA | |
1846 | February | Wimmera River, later site of the Ebenezer Aboriginal Station, VIC |
1846 | 6 February | Mullagh Station, 11 kilometres north of Harrow, VIC |
1846 | April | Pyrenees Range, VIC |
1846 | 28 June | Avoca River, near Charlton, VIC |
1846 | August | Aire River mouth, Cape Otway, VIC |
1846 | August | Sterling’s station, south-east SA |
1846 | 20 October | North Pine, south-east QLD, Aboriginal people led by Milbong Jemmy murder Andrew McGregor and Mrs Shannon with waddies. Mr Shannon later attacked but escapes. |
1846 | October | Eagle Farm, Brisbane, QLD, Milbong attacks Mr Richardson, robs his house. |
1846 | October | Doughboy Creek, (now part of Hemmant), Brisbane, QLD, Milbong attacks sawyers, is shot, dies almost immediately. |
1846 | September | Rivoli Bay, 65 kms north-west of Mt Gambier, SA |
1846 | November | Gippsland, VIC |
1846 | 11 November | Near North Avenue, Guichen Bay, Robe, SA |
1846 | December | Snowy River, VIC |
1846–47 | Central Gippsland, VIC | |
1847 | Clarence River, NSW | |
1847 | Kilcoy Station, Upper Brisbane River, QLD, station hands set a trap, putting aresenic-laced flour in hut. Aboriginal people rob the hut, many die after eating the flour. | |
1847 | Mount Eccles, VIC | |
1847 | Mount Talbot, VIC | |
1847 | January | Robe, SA |
1847 | April | Eumeralla district, south-western VIC |
1847 | Mid-April | Whiteside Station, QLD |
1847 | 20 May | Euremete and Lyne Stations adjoining Branxholme, south-western VIC |
1847 | July | Mount Napier, VIC |
1847 | August | Mt Gambier, SA |
1847 | 11 September | North Pine, Brisbane district, QLD, Aborigines, led by Dundalli, kill William Waller and badly wound William Boller. James Smith escapes. |
1847 | September | Goodar near Callandoon, QLD, James Marks kills an Aboriginal man. |
1847 | 13 Oct | Mary River, Maryborough district, QLD, George Furber and friend attacked by Aboriginal assistants while building a wool shed. Furber is wounded, his friend killed. Furber later retaliates shooting the Aboriginal men who attacked him. |
1847 | October | Mount Talbot, VIC |
1847 | 25 November | At, or near, Anderson and Mills’s public house, Buninyong, VIC |
1847 | c. 28 November | Kangaroo Creek run, south-east of Nymboida, Clarence River district, NSW. More than 20 Aboriginal people die after eating poisoned flour given to them by run-holder Thomas Coutts. |
1847–49 | Mt Abundance, near Roma, QLD, Aboriginal people kill seven Europeans. | |
1847–1851 | Aroona Station, Orroroo, north-west of Hawker, SA | |
1848 | Butcher's Tree, near Brewarrina, NSW, massacre of Aboriginal people | |
1848 | Escape River, tip of Cape York, Qld, explorer Edmund Kennedy speared, dies in the arms of Aboriginal tracker, Jackey Jackey. | |
1848 | Hospital Creek, near Brewarrina, NSW, masscre of Aboriginal people | |
1848 | Tingun Station, near Roma, QLD, Aboriginal people attack James Blythe and drive him off the station. | |
1848 | Maryborough, QLD, Aborigines kill George Furber and his brother-in-law in the bush. | |
1848 | Umbercollie, QLD | |
1848 | Waterloo Bay (Elliston), SA | |
1848 | Wimmera district, VIC | |
1848 | February | Murrumbidgee station, Murray area, VIC |
1848 | 31 March | Port Lincoln, SA |
1849 | Avenue Range Station, Mount Gambier area, SA | |
1849 | Balonne and Condamine Rivers, QLD | |
1849 | Bigumbul, QLD | |
1849 | Brown’s run, near Robe, SA | |
1849 | Carbucky, QLD | |
1849 | Fowlers Bay, WA, public execution of Wirangu men, (public executions banned) | |
1849 | Mt Wedge Station, Elliston, SA, public execution of Nawu men (public executions banned) | |
1849 | Paddy Island, upper Burnett River, QLD | |
1849 | Port Lincoln, SA | |
1849 | Severn River, QLD | |
1849 | 4 June | Gin Gin Station (now part of the town of Gin Gin), Burnett area, QLD, Aborigines kill shepherds, the Pegg brothers. |
1849 | Aft 4 June | The Cedars, QLD, Gregory Blaxland, the Thompson brothers and friendly Aborigines kill 'scores of blacks' in a reprisal for the Pegg brothers' deaths. |
1849 | 26 June | Wannon River, western VIC |
1849 | October | South-east SA |
1840s–1850s | Murderers’ Flat, Darlots Creek, near site of Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission, VIC | |
1850 | Brodribb River, at the Mllly (Mille) or Cabbage Tree Creek, near Orbost, VIC | |
1850 | Gippsland, VIC | |
1850 | Murrindal near Orbost, VIC | |
1850 | March | Yuleba Creek, QLD |
1850 | August | Gin Gin Station, QLD, Aborigines ambush and kill Gregory Blaxland near the station homestead. |
1850 | Paddy Island, Burnett River, QLD, a punitive party of squatters and station hands from Gin Gin and surrounding properties kill hundreds of Aboriginal people on Paddy Island. Many escape by swimming the river and disappearing into the Woongarra Scrub. | |
1850s | Black Head, East Ballina, NSW | |
1850s | Blackfellow’s Creek, Barmera, SA | |
1850s | Cobdolgla Station, 40 kms south-west of Renmark, SA | |
1850s | Kingston Ferry, 10 kms west of Barmera, SA | |
1850s | North-east of Lake Bonney, SA | |
1850s | Mt Serle (Searle), 50 kms east of Leigh Creek, SA | |
1850s | Teewah Beach, Noosa area, QLD, a massacre of Aboriginal people is believed to have taken place on Teewah Beach. | |
1850s–1860s | Boomerang Point, south of Rotamah, Lake Reeve, 20 kms s-e of Bairnsdale, VIC, massacre of Aboriginal people | |
1851 | Maranoa, QLD | |
1852 | Fraser Island, QLD | |
1852 | Isla Station, Dawson River, QLD, Aborigines kill McLaren near the station homestead. | |
1852 | Rawbelle Station, QLD, an Aboriginal man named Davey kills Adolphus Trevethan. | |
1852 | May–July | Yamboucal Station, near Surat, QLD |
22 August | 'Meldrum Massacre', Bald Hills Station, Armidale district, NSW Murders, allegedly committed by Aboriginal people, of colonists John Meldrum, Mary Mason and her two children, aged 3 and 18 months. The murders may have been in retaliation for the poisoning of Aboriginal people, with arsenic-laced flour, by other colonists. |
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1852 | 22 August | Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD, Davey, an Aboriginal man, hanged for the murder of Adolphus Trevethan. |
1852 | September | Mt Aden, near Port Lincoln, SA |
1852 | 30 September | Bordertown, SA |
c. 1853 | Ballina, NSW | |
3 Dec 1853 | Sandgate, Brisbane area, QLD, Aborigines attack Tom Dowse and family. They escape with their lives. Incident leads to the establishment of a Native Police camp at Sandgate headed by Lt. Wheeler. | |
1853–54 | Black Head, East Ballina, NSW | |
c. 1854 | Miriam Vale, QLD | |
1854 | Granville, QLD | |
1854 | Tiereyboo, QLD | |
1854 | 19 September | Mt Brown, east of Port Pirie, SA |
1854 | 25 December | Mt Larcom Station, Port Curtis district, QLD, Aborigines murder five of Young's employees while he is visiting Gladstone. Native Police pursue murderers, killing many. |
1855 | Middlecap Station, Franklin Harbour, Cowell, SA | |
1855 | 5 January | Queen Street, Brisbane, QLD, Dundalli hanged. |
1856 | Wangerriburra/Mt Wetheren, NSW | |
1856 | Werribone, QLD | |
1856 | Towel Creek, Macleay River, NSW | |
1856 | 10 January | South Australia, four Banggarla men hanged for murder and sheep stealing. |
1856–57 | Hornet Bank, Dawson River, QLD | |
1857 | Mt Serle (Searle), SA | |
1857 | 27 October | Upper Dawson River, QLD, Hornet Bank Massacre, of the Fraser family and an Aboriginal man |
1857–58 | Dawson River district, QLD, retaliatory massacres of hundreds of Yeeman Aboriginal people | |
1858 | John Jacob’s run, Arkaroola Creek, 100 kms east-north-east of Leigh Creek, SA | |
1858 | Fairymead, QLD | |
1858 | Maryborough, QLD | |
1858 | Tibradden Station, Victoria River district, inland from Geraldton, WA | |
1858 | 6 April | Eurombah Station, Dawson River area, QLD, Aborigines kill two shepherds. |
1859 | Lake Bolac Station, western VIC | |
1859 | c. March | Upper Irwin River, mid-west WA |
1859 | September | Near Brisbane QLD, shooting of an Aboriginal woman and injuries to two children. |
1860 | 25 June | Attack Creek (Goaranalki), Stuart Highway, 74 kms north of Tennant Creek, NT, Warumungu attack on explorer John McDouall Stuart and party. Stuart turns back. |
1860 | Bendemere, QLD, Frederick Carr's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1860 | Fassifern, QLD, Frederick Wheeler's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1860 | Flinders Peak, near Ipswich, QLD, Frederick Wheeler's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1860 | Maryborough, QLD, John Bligh's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1860 | Venus Bay, 60 kms south-east of Streaky Bay, SA. Execution of more Nawu men | |
1860 | Venus Bay, 60 kms south-east of Streaky Bay, SA | |
1860s | South Ballina, NSW | |
Early 1860s | "Waterview", north Bundaberg, QLD | |
1861 | Albinia Downs, QLD | |
1861 | Near Emerald, QLD | |
1861 | Fairfield Station, QLD, William Moorhead's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1861 | Flinders River, QLD, Native Police kill 12 Aboriginal people in a clash over the right to camp at a fresh water spring. | |
1861 | Maranoa, QLD | |
1861 | Medway Ranges (Central Highlands), QLD | |
1861 | Manumbar, QLD, Rudolph Morisset's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1861 | Planet Creek, Springsure district, QLD, Native Police involved in killing Aboriginal people. | |
1861 | 17 October | Cullinguringa (Cullin-La-Ringo) Massacre or Wills Tragedy, north of Springsure, QLD About 50 Aboriginal people attack a group of colonists, who were attempting to set up a farm at Cullinguringa. Nineteen of the 25 men, women and children are killed. The huge squatting party, that included bullock waggons and more than 10,000 sheep, had attracted the attention, not only of Aboriginal people, but of other squatters. At least 300 Aboriginal people are killed in vigilante reprisals and native police patrols that occur over later days and weeks. |
1861 | November | Roxburgh (Roxborough) Downs, QLD |
c. 1862 | Cape Upstart, QLD | |
1862 | Caboolture, near Brisbane, QLD | |
1862 | Coongoola, QLD | |
1862 | Dawson River, QLD, Ralph Johnson's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1862 | Fowlers Bay, 140 kms west of Ceduna, SA | |
1862 | Tibradden Station, WA | |
1862 | Venus Bay, 60 kms south-east of Streaky Bay, SA | |
1863 | Gayndah, QLD, Joseph Harris's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1863 | Meteor Creek, Springsure district, QLD, William Sharpe's Native Police detachment kill at least one Aboriginal person. | |
1863 | Tieryboo, QLD, Frederick Carr's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1863 | Yatton, QLD, Marmaduke Richardson's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1864 | Eureka near Bundaberg, QLD, Brown's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1864 | Mullewa, WA | |
1864 | Pabaju (Albany Island), QLD | |
1864 | Stuckey and Elders’ run, Umberatana Station, 120 kms west of Lyndhurst, SA | |
1864 | Tibradden Station, WA | |
1864 | 4 June | Sander’s run, QLD |
1864 | 10 June | Expedition Range, QLD |
1864 | Mid- | Murdering Creek near Lake Weyba, Noosa Heads area, QLD, massacre of Aboriginal people. |
1864 | 16 December | Nassau River, QLD |
1864 | 18 December | Mitchell River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD, Battle of the Mitchell, Aboriginal warriors, hurling spears, fight a pitched battle against armed Europeans. Many warriors killed or injured. No colonists died or injured. |
1865 | Calliope, QLD, Arthur Beevor's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1865 | Dawson River district, QLD, Otto Paschen's Police detachment involved in 'numerous collisions'. | |
1865 | Glenmore, QLD | |
1865 | La Grange Bay area, Kimberley region, WA | |
1865 | Mailman's Gorge, near Aramac, QLD | |
1865 | Moola Bulla, WA | |
1865 | Thouringowa (Thuringowa) Waterhole, QLD | |
1865 | May | Near Rannes, QLD, Native Police Officer, Cecil Hill, killed during an Aboriginal attack. |
1865 | 8 June | Rio Station, Dawson River, QLD, Aborigines ambush and kill a European police sergeant and three Aboriginal troopers. Native Polive miunt a revenge expedition. |
Mid-1860s | West of Rockhampton, QLD | |
c. 1866 | Chesterton (Pigeon Creek), QLD | |
1866 | Banana, QLD, Native Police officer, Edward Seymour, kills an Aboriginal woman. | |
1866 | Pearl Creek, QLD | |
1866 | Perch Creek, QLD | |
1866 | December | Lake Perigundi, Cooper’s Creek Tirari Desert, 110 kms north-east of Marree, SA |
1867 | Goulbolba Hill, Central QLD | |
1867 | Morinish, QLD, Myrtil Aubin's Native Police detachment kills unknown number of Aboriginal people. | |
1867 | Paroo River, south-west QLD, William Hill's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1867 | Stawell River, QLD | |
1867 | The Leap, north-west of Mackay, QLD | |
1867 | Turtle Head Island, north QLD | |
c. 1867 | Broadsound district, QLD | |
1868 | Albert Downs, Gregory River, QLD, Aboriginal people rob station of firearms, axes, food and other supplies. 'Dispersed by the law of the carbine'. No loss of lives or injuries reported. | |
1868 | Burdekin, QLD | |
1868 | Cassidy's Station, Leichhardt River, QLD, Aboriginal people attack station, 'dispersed by the law of the carbine'. No deaths or injuries reported. | |
1868 | Grosvenor Downs, QLD | |
1868 | Inverleigh, QLD | |
1868 | Kimberleys, WA | |
1868 | Mailman's Gorge near Aramac, QLD, more than 25 Aboriginal people slaughtered. | |
1868 | Norman River, QLD, Aborigines kill Cannon, Manson and a number of Chinese employees on Liddie and Hetzer's station. | |
1868 | South of Burketown, QLD, Uhr massacre of Aboriginal people | |
1868 | February–May | Flying Foam Passage, King Bay, Murujuga (Burrup Peninsula), WA, Flying Foam Massacres of Aboriginal people |
1868 | October | Lake Tyers, VIC |
1868 | December | North Creek Station, Nebo, QLD, Aborigines murder JT Collins. |
1869 | Bowen district, QLD | |
1869 | Kourareg, on Muralag (Prince of Wales Island), QLD, Aborigines capture captain and crew of a cutter. Kill some crew and a boy. Captain Montgomerie's frigate Blanche, with police aboard, embarks on a punitive expedition against the 'Mt Ernest natives' believed responsible. Three 'chiefs' shot. | |
1869 | Nebo, QLD, Robert Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1869 | Woodstock, QLD | |
1870 | Barcoo River, QLD, Edward Wheeler's Native Police detachment kills several Aboriginal people. | |
1870–1890 | Kalkadoon Wars, Mt Isa region, QLD (see also Battle Mountain below) | |
Early 1870s | Battle Hole, Barcoo River, QLD | |
1870s | Gilbert River, QLD | |
1871 | Gilberton, QLD, deadly clashes between Aboriginal people, miners and Native Police. | |
1871 | Somerset, QLD, Frank Jardine allegedly shoots four Native Police troopers, three apparently survive but try to escape by sea in a canoe a month later. | |
1872 | Aramac, Barcaldine region, QLD, Frederick Maier killed. | |
1872 | Near Cardwell, QLD, Aborigines kill some survivors of the Maria shipwreck, help others. | |
1872 | Near Cardwell, QLD, Native Police involved in reprisals against Aboriginal people believed to have killed Maria shipwreck survivors. | |
1872 | Cloncurry, QLD, Alexander Salmond's Native police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1872 | Clump Point, Mission Beach, QLD, Robert Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1872 | Coast Track (the Savannah Way), Gulf Country, NT (Multiple killings) | |
1872 | Opposite Coonanglebah (Dunk) Island, QLD, Djiru massacre | |
1872 | Gladstone, QLD, Native police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1872 | Herbert River, far north QLD, Charles Shairp's Native Police detachment kills an Aboriginal woman. | |
1872 | Hinchinbrook Island, QLD | |
1872 | Mt Leonard, QLD | |
1872 | Newcastle Waters area, NT | |
1872 | Sweers Island, QLD | |
1872 | Tambo, Barcoo River, central QLD, Thomas Williams's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1872 | Near Yaamba, north of Rockhampton, QLD | |
1872 | Valley of Lagoons, QLD, Johnstone's Native Police detachment alleged to have killed Aboriginal people. | |
1872 | Wombinderry Waterhole, QLD | |
1872 | 24 April | Welford Downs Station (formerly Walton Downs Station), Barcoo River area, QLD, Aborigines murder Richard Welford, squatter and Henry Hall, stockman, while they are sawing a tree. |
1873 | Aramac, Barcaldine region, QLD, John Carroll's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1873 | Opposite Double Island, QLD | |
1873 | Herbert River, QLD, Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1873 | Massacre Sandhill, QLD | |
1873 | Normanby, QLD, Aulaire Morisset's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1873 | Palm Cove, QLD, Johnstone's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1873 | Pearl Shellers’ Revenge, south-west of Somerset station, far north QLD | |
1873 | North of Pine Creek, NT | |
1873 | Skull Creek, near Nebo, QLD | |
1873 | April | Green Island, off Cairns, QLD |
1873 | 10 July | Green Island, off Cairns, QLD |
1873 | 22 November | Gilberton goldfield, QLD, Aborigines kill two Chinese prospectors, two reported missing. |
1873 | c. December | Battle Camp ‘collision’, far north QLD, European prospectors and Native Police engage in armed battle with Aboriginal tribespeople. Hundreds of Aboriginal people killed, about four Europeans speared to death. |
1874 | Bloomfield River, far north QLD, while trying to find a shorter route from the coast to the Palmer goldfield, Edward Dumaresq's Native Police detachment is involved in a number of killings of Aboriginal people. | |
1874 | Gilberton, QLD, Henry Finch's Native Police detachment involved in killings of Aboriginal people. | |
1874 | Skull Creek, 50 kms south of Barrow Creek, NT | |
1874 | June | Green Island, off Cairns, QLD |
1874 | Late | Palmer River area, QLD, Aboriginal people kill Straher family. |
1874–75 | Blackfellow’s Creek, far north QLD | |
1875 | Miriam Vale, QLD, Native Police officer, Alexander Douglas involved in Aboriginal killings. | |
1875 | Palmer River area, QLD, reprisals against Aboriginal people following Straher deaths | |
1875 | 30 June | Roper Bar, near Roper River, NT, Charles Johnston killed by Aboriginal people. |
1875 | July? | Roper River (Mole Hill to mouth), NT, punitive expeditions after Johnston's murder |
1875 | 7 August | Roper Bar, near Roper River, NT, Abram Daer killed by Aboriginal people. |
c. 1875 | Irpmankara massacre, NT | |
Mid to late 1800s | Bundaburra(h) Creek, near Forbes, NSW, Aboriginal people poisoned with strychnine, then 'thrown in the river near Bundaburra(h) Creek'. | |
1876 | Banchory Station near Clermont, QLD, Native Police officer Frederick Wheeler charged with murder of an Aboriginal man named Jemmy. | |
1876 | Creen Creek, QLD, Native Police detachments led by Armit and Poingdestre kill Aboriginal people. | |
1876 | Kennedy River, QLD | |
1876 | March | Mistake Creek, near Clermont, QLD |
c. 1876 | Kangirr Creek, QLD | |
1877 | Corella Downs and vicinity, NT, Aboriginal people killed in punitive expedition after murders of Fred Jeffries and his Aboriginal assistant. | |
1877 | Valley of Springs Station near Cox River, NT, Aboriginal people killed after Bird murder. | |
1877 | 2 December | Coast Track (the Savannah Way), near Nicholson River, NT, William Batten murder |
1877 | Aft 2 December | Coast Track, near Nicholson River, NT, punitive expeditions after Batten killing |
c. 1877 | Western QLD, Skull Hole Massacre | |
1878 | Douglas River, north-west of Pine Creek, NT | |
1878 | Coast Track (the Savannah Way), near Limmen Bight River, NT | |
1878 | Near Daly River, NT | |
1878 | Murray Island, QLD | |
1878 | February | Range west of Cairns, QLD |
1878 | February | Tuck-au-noo, far north QLD, Aboriginal people allegedly murder W Bird in retaliation for kidnapping three members of the local tribe. |
1878 | 31 August | Smithfield near Cairns, QLD |
1878 | 13 December | Near Limmen Bight River, NT, murder of William Travers |
1878 | Aft December | Coast Track near Limmen Bight River, NT, Aboriginal people killed in punitive expedition after Travers murder. |
1878 | Whitsunday Islands, QLD, Aboriginal attack on the schooner Louisa Maria and her crew. Native Police reprisals led by George Nowlan. | |
Late 1878 | Cooktown district, far north QLD | |
1878? | Warroo Station, St George, QLD | |
1879 | Cape Bedford, far North QLD | |
1879 | Near Cooktown, QLD, Stanhope O'Connor's Native Police detachment involved in killing Aboriginal people. | |
1879 | Glengyle, QLD | |
1879 | Mossman River, QLD, George Nowlan's Native Police detachment involved in killing Aboriginal people. | |
1879 | Ravine, QLD | |
1879 | Woonomo Billabong, Suleiman Creek, north-west QLD | |
1879 | Selwyn Range, QLD | |
1879 | September | Mulgrave River, near Cairns, QLD |
1879 | Thursday Island, QLD | |
1880 | Horse (Horso) Creek, Kimberley region, WA The introduction of cattle and other European animals onto Aboriginal country caused much damage to traditional sites and waterholes, also upsetting the ecological balance. As in other colonies, as Europeans expanded their pastoral and mining interests in Western Australia, traditional food and water resources were disturbed, if not destroyed. In attempts to protect their country, Aboriginal people often had to hunt cattle from their lands, also resorting to killing them for food when traditional game was scarce or disappeared. At Horso (Horse) Creek about 1880 Europeans shoot a group of Gija people for driving off bullocks. To hide the evidence of the murders, the Gija people's bodies are burnt. Later the mother of a boy, who escapes the killings, finds him hiding in the carcass of a bullock. | |
1880 | Lake Cowal, The Bland, central-western NSW, local landholders massacre Aboriginal people. | |
1880 | Normanton district, QLD | |
1870s/80s | Mimosa Station, south-west of Temora, NSW, a hired hand shot and killed up to 1,000 Aboriginal people in this area. | |
Early 1880s | Clohesy River, near Kuranda, QLD | |
Early 1880s | Moonjaree, QLD | |
1880 | March | Cocanarup, Phillips River, WA |
1880 | 20 May | Coast Track (now called the Savannah Way), Limmen Bight River, NT, murder of John Barry |
c. 1880 | Butchers Creek area, QLD, according to Ngadjonji oral history, fighting erupts between colonists and Aboriginal people after Europeans interfere with Aboriginal women while their men are away from camp. Some colonists are speared, many Aboriginal people shot. More Aboriginal people shot in later incidents. | |
1880s | Near Booroloola, NT | |
1880s | Calvert Hills, NT | |
1880s | Koonchera Point, Birdsville, central-western QLD, Mindiri Massacre | |
1880s | Koonchera Sandhill (Dune), SA | |
1880s | Mt Drysdale, north of Cobar, NSW | |
1880s | Poeppels Corner, east Simpson Desert, QLD, Wardamba Massacre | |
1880s | Red Rock (Blood Rock), NSW | |
1880s | Tinnenburra, QLD | |
1880s | Wollogorang (at the Pocket), NT | |
1880s | Wiryirbi, Clifton Hills, SA | |
c. 1880s | McPherson Creek (at Kawurrungkuma), NT | |
c. 1880s | Wearyan River, near Manangoora, NT | |
c. 1880s | Seven Emus Creek, near Manguwarruna, NT | |
c. 1880s | Calvert Downs (at Waningirrinyi Waterhole), NT | |
c. 1880s | Calvert Downs (at Mawurra Cave), NT | |
c. 1880s | Calvert Downs (at Gabugabuna), NT | |
Late 1880s | Near Cairns, QLD | |
1880s–90s | Florida Station, Arnhem Land, NT | |
1880s–90s | Hodgson Downs, NT | |
1881 | Bibhoora near Mareeba, QLD | |
1881 | Lizard Island, north of Cooktown, QLD, Mary Watson and baby disappear from a fishing station after Chinese manservants speared. Aboriginal people blamed for killings. Native Police Inspector Harvey Fitzgerald leads punitive killing raids on the coast north of Cooktown. | |
1881 | Normanton, QLD, Aboriginal people kill sub-inspector Dyas. | |
1881 | Woolgar, QLD, Native Police officer Henry Kaye killed during an Aboriginal attack. Native Police reprisals follow under command of William Nichols. | |
1881 | 2 June | Rosie Creek, Coast Track (Savannah Way), NT, Patrick McNamara killed by Aborigines. |
1881 | September | Cocanarup, Phillips River, WA |
1882 | Cloncurry, QLD, Frederick Urquhart's Native Police kill Kalkadoon people. | |
1882 | Elsey Station, near Elsey Creek, NT | |
1882 | Elsey Station, NT | |
1882 | Elsey Station, near Strangways River, NT | |
1882 | Jinparrak (Old Wave Hill Station), NT, Aboriginal man shot in the back for trying to take a bucket and some billies. | |
1882 | Leigh Creek, SA | |
1882 | McKinlay Ranges near Cloncurry, QLD, Native Police cadet, Marcus La Poer Beresford, killed in Aboriginal attack. | |
1882 | Ochre Trail on Beltana Station, Leigh Creek, SA | |
1882 | Tubu (Warrior) Island, Torres Strait, QLD | |
1882 | 16 June | Elsey Station, NT, Aboriginal people murder Duncan Campbell |
Late 1882 | Margaret River, eastern edge of the Fitzroy Valley, WA | |
1882 | November | Between Granite Creek (later Mareeba) and Cairns, QLD |
c. 1882 | Coast Track (the Savannah Way) at Calvert River, NT | |
1883 | Coast Track (the Savannah Way) at Skeleton Creek, NT, Aboriginal people killed in a punitive expedition after a horse is speared. | |
1883 | Cooloolah, Cloncurry district, QLD, Alfred Smart's Native Police detachment kills Kalkadoon people. | |
1883 | Massacre Hill, NT | |
1883 | 23 July | Russell River near Cairns, QLD |
1883 | 26 August | Near Russell River, north QLD |
1883 | September | Frasers Creek, NT, Aboriginal murder of John Fraser and Aboriginal assistant |
1883/84 | Warluck (Seale Gorge), NT, British pastoralists massacre Gurindji people. | |
1883–1910 | Victoria River Downs, NT, massacres of Aboriginal people | |
1884 | Battle Mountain (Mount Remarkable), near Mt Isa, QLD, Kalkadoon Wars | |
1884 | Burrundie, NT, 200 km south of Darwin, NT, Woolwonga tragedy | |
1884 | East of Angkwerl, NT, Blackfellows Bones Hill Massacre | |
1884 | Grenada, QLD | |
1884 | Irvinebank inland from Cairns, QLD, Nichols's and Garraway's Native Police detachment kill at least six Aboriginal people. Bodies burnt. | |
1884 | McKinlay River, NT | |
1884 | Mistake Creek, Isaac region, QLD, Frederick Urquhardt's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1884 | Mulgrave River, QLD | |
1884 | Selwyn Range, QLD | |
1884 | Skeleton Creek, NT | |
1884 | Skeleton Creek, QLD | |
1884 | Skull Pocket, QLD | |
1884 | White Hills, QLD | |
1884 | August | Angkwerl (Anna's Reservoir), Aileron Station, NT |
1884 | August | Russell River, near Cairns, QLD |
1884 | Aug–Dec | Mulgrave River, near Cairns, QLD |
1884 | September | Daly River, NT |
1884 | 21 December | Mulgrave River, near Cairns, QLD |
1884–1888 | Daly River area, NT, 'Coppermine massacre' and other reprisals | |
1885 | Alexandria Station, NT | |
1885 | Alexandria Station (at Peaker Creek), NT | |
1885 | Battle Creek, Victoria River Downs, NT | |
1885 | Blackall, QLD, Robert Little's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1885 | Elsey Station, NT | |
1885 | Elsey Station, near Chambers Creek, NT | |
1885 | McArthur River, near Kilgour Gorge, NT | |
1885 | Norman River, QLD, Lyndon Poingdestre's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1886 | Near Cairns, QLD | |
1886 | Cockatoo Bora, QLD | |
1886 | Dunganminnie Spring, NT | |
1886 | Limmen Bight River Cave, NT | |
1886 | McArthur River, NT | |
1886 | McArthur River station, NT (various locations) | |
1886 | Malakoff Creek, McArthur River Station, NT | |
1886 | Rosewood Station, NT | |
1886 | 28 July | Between Vanderlin Island and McArthur River mouth, NT |
1886 | August | Yulbarra, Vanderlin Island, NT |
1886 | 6 September | Near Cairns, QLD |
1886 | September | Gregory Creek, NT |
1886 | 18 October | Broadmere outstation, NT, Aboriginal people kill Edward Lenehan |
1886 | 17 November | Kimberleys, WA |
c. 1886 | Yulbarra Creek, Vanderlin Island, NT | |
1887 | Amelia Spring, McArthur River station, NT | |
1887 | Corella Downs station, NT | |
1887 | Corella Downs station and surrounding area, NT | |
1887 | Hall’s Creek, WA | |
1887 | Kimberley, Normanton district, QLD, Daniel Lorigan's and Lyndon Poingdestre's Native Police detachments kill Aboriginal people. | |
1887 | Valley of Springs station, near Cox River, NT | |
1888 | Diamantina River district, south-west QLD | |
1888 | Kirrima, QLD | |
1888 | April | Near Calvert River, NT |
1888 | 12 May | McArthur River, NT |
1888 | 31 December | Corella Downs, NT |
1880s | Late | Near Cairns, QLD |
1888–89 | Boar (Boar's) Pocket near Cairns, QLD | |
1889 | Auvergne Station, NT | |
1889 | Coen, QLD | |
1889 | Jampawurru (Red Lily Spring or Mud Creek), NT | |
1889 | Pine Tree Station, QLD | |
1889 | c. January | Brunette Downs Station, NT |
1889 | Lawn Hill, north-western QLD, Alfred Wavell killed while attempting to arrest Aboriginal man, Joe Flick. | |
1889 | Mein, north QLD, Frederick Urquhart's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1889 | Pine Tree Station, QLD | |
1889–90 | Haddon Corner, SA | |
1890 | Speewah, near Kuranda, far north QLD | |
1890 | Coanjula Creek, near Upper Nicholson River, NT | |
1890 | Bef 11 January | Cadalgo Station, near the Transcontinental Railway, 50 kms west of Haddon Corner, SA |
1890 | West Baines River, NT | |
1890s | East Baines River, NT | |
1890s? | Ganjarinjarri, upper Robinson River, NT | |
Mid-1890s | Speewah, near Kuranda, QLD | |
Mid-1890s | Spring Creek Valley between Cairns and Port Douglas, QLD | |
Mid–1890s? | Flaggy Creek, near Kuranda, QLD | |
Mid–1890s? | Mona Mona, near Kuranda, QLD | |
1890 | July | Lower Barron River, QLD? |
1890s? | Ganjarinjarri, upper Robinson River, NT | |
1890–1896 | Western Australia, conflicts between pastoralists and Aboriginal people | |
1890–1920 | Warmun (Turkey Creek) district, WA | |
1880s–c. 1926 | ‘The Killing Times’, Kimberleys, WA The Ruby Plains Massacre that took place during 'The Killing Times' was one example of how pastoralists dealt with Aboriginal resistance to European incursions. To record Aboriginal oral history of such events that most likely were not included in official European archives, Rover Thomas painted a series of 'killing times' paintings. Among this series were paintings of the massacre at Ruby Plains Station where Aboriginal people were shot for killing a bullock and later decapitated. | |
1891 | Spring Vale, QLD | |
1891 | 23 February | Tempe Downs Station, Finke River, NT |
1891 | May | Dora Dora near Albury, NSW |
1892 | Auvergne Station, NT | |
1892 | Coolgardie region, WA | |
1892 | Corella Downs (at Corella Creek), NT | |
1892 | Creswell Downs, NT | |
1892 | Cresswell Downs, NT (at Puzzle Creek south), NT | |
1892 | Mapoon, QLD, Native Police shoot Aboriginal people. | |
1892? | Cresswell Downs, NT (at Kiana rockhole), NT | |
1892 | 31 January | Cresswell Downs, NT (at Bowgan Waterhole outstation) |
1892 | August | Myola, near Kuranda, QLD |
1892 | October ff | Willeroo Station, NT |
1893 | September | Rosewood Station, NT |
1894 | Cliffdale Creek, south of Wollogorang, NT | |
1894 | June | Black Gin Creek, NT |
1894 | 7 July | Kalgara (Mount Margaret) district, WA, P. Mack 'tomahawked'. |
1894 | 30 July | Four miles south of Brickey's Soak, Kalgara (Mount Margaret) district, WA, 30 to 40 Aboriginal people, armed with spears and clubs, attack D'Arcy Uhr, Michael Galway and George Alexander at 3.00 pm in the afternoon. A nearby camp of six men assists Uhr's party to save their camp. An Aboriginal man kills one of the intruders on their Country, wounds another. |
1894–1904 | Bradshaw Station, NT | |
1896 | Lakefield, QLD | |
1896 | Ranges, located in the NT, west of Lawn Hill, QLD | |
1896–97 | Cresswell Downs, NT | |
1896-97 | Irringa on Cresswell Creek, NT | |
1896–97 | Minyarrga on Cresswell Creek, NT | |
1896–97 | Radjiji, upper Nicholson River, NT | |
1896–97 | Woodawalla on Cresswell Creek, NT | |
1896 | 17 August | Deebing Creek, QLDStudents at the local Aboriginal mission school and their teacher allegedly shot. |
1897 | Jandamarra, Bonuba leader killed, WA | |
1897 | January | Jasper Gorge, Victoria River, NT |
1897 | Wollogorang (at Baladuna Waterhole), NT | |
1898 | Smithfield near Cairns, QLD, John Higgins's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1898–1903 | Barron River, Wooroora, and Mt Garnet, QLD, Heenan's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1899 | Wave Hill station, NT | |
Late 1800s | Skull Hole (now in Bladensburg National Park), QLD | |
c. 1900 | Calvert River mouth, NT | |
1900 | 20 July | Breelong, near Gilgandra, NSW, Mawbey and Kerz murders |
1900 | 23 July | Near Ulan, NSW |
1900 | 24 July | Poggie, near Merriwa, NSW |
1900 | 26 July | Near Wollar, NSW |
1900 | 31 October | North of Singleton, NSW, Joe Governor shot |
1900s | Emu Lagoon, north QLD | |
1900s | Macumba Station, SA | |
1900s | Mourne (Morn) Pool, near Mildura, VIC | |
1900s | Near Oodnadatta, SA | |
1901 | 14 January | Dubbo Gaol, NSW, Jacky Underwood hanged for his part in Mawbey and Kerz murders |
1901 | 18 January | Darlingust Gaol, Sydney, NSW, Jimmy Governor hanged for murder |
1902 | Ducie River, Cape York Peninsula, QLD, John Hoole's Native Police detachment kills Aboriginal people. | |
1902 | Near Mapoon, Cape York Peninsula, QLD | |
1903 | Hodgson Downs (at Bailey Creek), NT | |
1904 | Flick Yard, QLD | |
1904 | Kirrima, QLD | |
1905 | Victoria River, NT, Bradshaw massacre | |
1905 | Near Wadeye (Port Keats), NT, massacre reprisal | |
c. 1906 | Murbai, QLD | |
1906–07 | Canning Stock Route, WA | |
1910 | March | Victoria River Downs, NT |
1910s | Emu Lagoon, QLD | |
c. 1910/11 | Gaargarn (Gan Gan), inland from Blue Mud Bay, Yolgnu country, Arnhem Land, NT | |
1911–1918 | Bentinck Island, QLD | |
Between 1913–1918 | Pewuly (Bow Hills Police Station), NT, massacre of Gurindji people | |
1915 | Mistake Creek, near Warmun (Turkey Creek), east Kimberley region, WA | |
1915–16 | Elsey Station, NT | |
1916 | Mowla Bluff Station, Geegully Creek, near Derby, Kimberleys, WA | |
1918 | Auvergne Station, NT | |
1918 | Bentinck Island, QLD | |
Bef 1920 | Near Ngima (Neave River Junction), NT | |
1920s | Canning Stock Route, WA | |
1922 | October | Sturt Creek, south-east Kimberleys, WA |
1920s | Texas Downs Station, Kimberleys, WA | |
1921 | Bedford Downs, WA | |
1924 | Bedford Downs massacre, WA | |
c. 1924 | Tartarr (Blackfellows Knob), NT, massacre | |
1926 | Forrest River, east Kimberleys, WA | |
1926 | 23 May | Nulla Nulla Station boundary, 35 kms west of Wyndham, WA |
1928 | 7 August | Coniston Station, NT |
1928 | 22 August | Kakutu (Cockatoo Creek), north-east of Yuendemu, NT |
1928 | 23–30 August | West of Yuendemu, NT |
1928 | August–October | Coniston Station, NT |
1928 | 27 August | Janangpa (Boomerang Waterhole), Yarlalinji (Lander River), Broadmeadows Station, west of Barrow Creek, NT |
1928 | 16 September | Napperby Station, NT |
1928 | 24 September | Tomahawk Waterhole, Lander River; Dingo Hole, Hanson River, Broadmeadows Station, NT |
1928 | 25 September | Circle Well, north-east of Tomahawk Waterhole, NT |
1928 | 26 Sept ff | Tipinpa (Patirrlirr Creek), 24 kms west of Broadmeadows Station, NT |
1928 | Cockatoo Spring, NT | |
1928 | Dingo Hole, Hanson River, NT | |
1928 | Hanson River, NT | |
1928 | Six Mile Soak, NT | |
1928 | Wajinpulungk, NT | |
1929 | November | Vicinity of Herbert Station, near Camooweal, QLD |
1931 | July | Near Wadeye (Port Keats), NT |
1932 | September | Caledon Bay, Arnhem Land, NT |
1933 | June | Woodah Island, NT |
1933 | November | Blue Mud Bay area, NT |
1934 | Tieyon (Tyonne) Station, SA | |
1934 | Darwin, NT, Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda possibly murdered after release from gaol. | |
1937 | 7 April | McArthur River Gorge, NT |
1937 | 19 May | Anningie Station, 50 kms north of Ti-Tree, NT |
1940 | August | Darwin Hospital, NT, Nemarluk dies |
1940 | c. 14 December | Mount Cavanagh Station, south of Kulgera, NT |
Dates Unknown | ||
1790s/1800s? | Gadigal/Hunter River nations site, Randwick, Sydney, NSW: possible resistance site | |
Allandale, north QLD | ||
Baryula (on Chastletown Station), south-western QLD | ||
Bauhinia Downs, NT | ||
Blencoe Falls, north QLD | ||
Blunder Creek, north QLD | ||
Bone's Knob, north QLD | ||
Bulloo Downs, south-west QLD | ||
Cattle Creek, north-west QLD | ||
Chastletown Station, south-west QLD | ||
Cheviot Range, central QLD | ||
Cooningheera Waterhole, NT | ||
Cuppa Waterhole, NT | ||
Currawillinghi, south central QLD | ||
Dangeri Waterhole, NT | ||
Donor's Hill Cave Massacre, NT | ||
Evelyn Massacre, north QLD | ||
Flaggy Creek, north QLD | ||
Gilpeppee, western QLD | ||
Granada, NT | ||
Gray Rock, north QLD | ||
Hodgson Downs (at Angus Spring), NT | ||
Hodgson Downs (at Buffalo Hole), NT | ||
Hodgson Downs (at Indi Indi Spring), NT | ||
Hodgson Downs (at Mason Gorge), NT | ||
Hodgson Downs (at Sandy Lagoon), NT | ||
Horse Springs, NT (Gurinji Country)* | ||
Isis Downs, north QLD | ||
Janpa, NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Jirin, north QLD | ||
Jikirrijja (Campbell Springs), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Jurlakkala (Nero Yard), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Jutamiliny (Swan Yard), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Kalidawarra Waterhole, NT | ||
Kiacatoo Station, central-western NSW | ||
Kulpie Waterhole, western QLD | ||
Kumanturru (Coomanderoo), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Kurturtu, NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Lake Cowal, The Bland, central-western NSW. More than one massacre took place near Lake Cowal. Apart from the one in 1880, dates of the others are unknown. | ||
Longton, north QLD | ||
Malapa (Old Limbunya Homestead), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Massacre Inlet, Gulf Country, NT | ||
Massacre Waterfall, Gulf Country, NT | ||
Monkira, NT | ||
Morney Plains, western QLD | ||
Mt Farquharson, north QLD | ||
N*****'s Bounce, about 100 km west of Charters Towers, north QLD^ | ||
Ngangi, NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Ngurriya (Midnight), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Nocaboorara, south-west QLD | ||
Pandie Pandie, SA, south of the NT border | ||
Piyirriri (Farquharson Gap), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Red Bend, near Forbes, NSW | ||
Rifle Creek, north QLD | ||
Seale Yard, NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Skull Lagoon, north QLD | ||
Spring Creek, Mowbray Valley, north QLD | ||
Springfield, central QLD | ||
Springfield, north QLD | ||
Spring Hill Station, near Wedderburn, VIC | ||
Tanbar, south-west QLD | ||
The Dip, north QLD | ||
Thunderpurty Waterhole, NT | ||
Tinderry, NSW | ||
Vine Creek, north QLD | ||
Wambiana, north QLD | ||
Waniyi (near Number 2 Bore), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Waterview, north QLD | ||
Wattamondara, near Koorawatha, NSW | ||
Wirrilu (Blackfella Creek), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Wulupu (Hooker Creek), NT (Gurindji Country)* | ||
Wyandotte, QLD | ||
Yurruj (Burtawurta), NT (Gurindji Country)* |
Compiled by Jane Morrison 2012–2022