Captain Arthur Phillip raises the Union Jack at Sydney Cove, New South Wales. Resistance is immediate and lead by warriors like Pemulwuy.
The establishment of the 'native institution' at Parramatta, New South Wales, by Governor Macquarie 'to civilise, educate and foster habits of industry and decency in the Aborigines'.
Conflict with Aboriginal people in the Bathurst, New South Wales, district becomes such a threat to white settlement that martial law is proclaimed. The Battle of Bathurst is lead by Wiradjuri warrior Windradyne.
Maria Lock (or Locke), an Aboriginal woman, was born at Richmond, on the Hawkesbury River, in 1805. In March 1831 she petitioned Governor Darling for her deceased brother Coley's (Colebee) grant at Blacktown. The land was opposite the Native Institution and was located in the territory of the Boorooberongal clan of the Dharug people. Maria was the daughter of Yarramundi, 'Chief of the Richmond Tribes'. Although there were protests to the land grant, Maria succeeded and was given 40 acres in 1831. In 1833, another 40 acres was granted to her at Liverpool in her husband Robert's name. She received Colebee's 30-acre (12.1 ha) grant in 1843. She died in 1878.
June: Myall Creek Massacre. It was the first, and only, time anyone was tried and hanged for murdering Aboriginal people after white settlers murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Creek Station in NSW.
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