aboriginal(Tasmanian)

By fog foster

  • 1803

    1803
    1803 Hundreds of aboriginal Tasmanians were killed in1803 when they attempted to stop soldiers and convicts building huts near the present site of Hobart.
  • Period: to

    1803 -1876

    Tasmanian aboriginal history

  • 1820

    1820
    1820s there was a site of war in eastern Tasmania

  • 1828

    1828
    1828 Governor Arthur ordered districts

  • 1830

    1830
    1830 more than two thousand solders, convicts and settled were formed into lines for a drive to capture all the aboriginal people in the area of conflict or drive them through the narrow strip of land that form Eaglehawks Neck.

  • 1840

    1840
    1840 survivours of many different language groups were forced to move to flinders island. They were guarded and forced to were European clothes

  • 1847

    1847
    1821-1840 many aboriginals from different language groups were moved to Flinders Island. By 1847 most had died of disease and despair.

  • 1869

    1869
    1869 Truganini was the only survivor at oyster bay.

  • 1876

    1876
    1876 Truganini died