Australian History-Related Lists - Australian Timelines, List of Disasters in Australia by Death Toll (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Australian timelines, List of disasters in Australia by death toll, Timeline of Aboriginal history of Western Australia, Timeline of Australian television, List of convicts on the First Fleet, New South Wales Premier's History Awards, Timeline of Adelaide history, Timeline of Melbourne history, Descendants of the Bounty Mutineers, Victorian Community History Awards, Australian History Awards, List of convict ship voyages to Western Australia, Northern Territory History Awards, List of 17th century shipwrecks in Australia, List of divisional boards in Queensland, Timeline of banking in Western Australia, Pilbara historical timeline, Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, List of Australian penal colonies. Excerpt: This is a list of disasters in modern Australia sorted by death toll. Excludes deaths attributable to war. This is a Timeline of Aboriginal history of Western Australia Aboriginal life in the two centuries from 1629 to 1829, was characterized by the increased presence of Europeans around the Western Australian coastline. First contact, appears to have been characterized by open trust and curiosity, with Aborigines willing to defend themselves against any unwarranted intrusion. The settlement of Western Australia by Europeans, under James Stirling, in the early 1840s, created a new generation of colony born young men who were engaged in hostilities with Aborigines and the imprisonment of those who dared question their authority. The settlement proceeded with the expropriation of land and the exploitation of cheap labour and the extermination of any resistance by Aborigines.. Francis Armstrong visits the 8 Wadjuk campsites around Perth and records only 295 people out of the 1500 there were estimated to have lived there at the time of the arrival of the first settlers 7 years before. The smallest ...