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Mar Edward SanDiego
Mar Edward SanDiego

The document summarizes the history of Aboriginal occupation and European settlement of South Australia and Tasmania from 22,000 BC to the 1850s. It notes evidence of Aboriginal occupation dating back thousands of years, as well as key events like the arrival of European explorers and settlers and the establishment of the colonies of South Australia and Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania), including conflicts with Aboriginal peoples.

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22,000 BC Evidence of aboriginal occupation of the Southern Australia through cave wall engravings. 8,000 BC Evidence of aboriginal occupation through wooden Photo by: Aboriginal Art Online tools. http://www.aboriginalartonline.com
1627 AD First known sighting of the South Australian coast. 1789 First Smallpox epidemia. 1803 First recorded long term occupancy of Kangaroo Island. 1829 Second smallpox epidemia. 1833 South Australian Association 1834 South Australian Colonization Act 1835 South Australian Company
The South Australian Association was founded in December 1833 to promote the concepts of systematic colonisation proposed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and to persuade the British Government to establish a new colony in southern Australia. The original draft of the South Australia Act was produced by its members, including Wakefield. Source: Bound For South Australia http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au
An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces and to provide for the Colonisation and Government thereof States that settlement of a province or multiple provinces on the lands between 132 east and 141 east longitude, and between the Southern Ocean, and 26 south latitude, including the islands adjacent to the coastline. Put into effect on 15 August 1834. The Act reflected the views of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who saw control of land sales as a way to finance the development of a colony. Source: SA Act of 1834 by G.L Fischer http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/SA_Act.pdf
Wealthy British merchants formed the South Australian Company in 1835. This joint stock company was a reaction to the slow take up of land orders for the Province of South Australia. Source: Bound For South Australia http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au
February 24 First migrant ships left England. July 27 and 30 First permanent pioneer settlers in large numbers arrived at Kangaroo Island. December 28 Governor John Hindmarsh arrived. Invasion of the Kaurna tribal lands.
Kaurna territory extended from Cape Jervis at the bottom of the Fleurie Peninsula to Port Wakefield on the eastern shore of Gulf St Vincent, and as far north as Crystal Brook in the Mid North. Source: Kaurna Warra Pintyandi Online http://www.adelaide.edu.a u/kwp/
July Native location in the North Park Lands. Emigration Depot in West Park Lands.
1838 SA Police Force established (First in Australia) 1839 Adelaide Chamber of Commerce founded (First in Australia) School for Aboriginal children by Lutheran missionaries. Dr Matthew Moorhouse was appointed Protector of Aborigines. 1851 The Gold Rush
Making Gold a legal tender and the circulation of stamped Gold tokens. Offered to provide a mounted police escort to bring back gold sent by the miners to their families.
South Australia was the first British Colony to issue its own coins before becoming independent. There is little doubt that the government exceeded its powers but South Australia now has the honour of having the first Australian Mint.
1856 Grant for responsible government Right to draft their own constitution (Photo by: State Library of South Australia parliament.sa.gov.au)
1856 The office of Protector of Aborigines abolished. July 1858 Aborigines Friends Association formed. 1861 Office of Protector of Aborigines restored.
South australia and tasmania. maxpptx
The oldest Aboriginal occupation site, Warreen, has been dated as 35, 000 years old. Signs of early occupation are the rock art (petroglyphs).
The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Parlevar or Palawa) were the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania, located south of the continent of Australia. Before British colonisation in 1803, there were an estimated 3,00015,000 Parlevar.
1642 First sighting of the island by Abel Tasman. 1793 John Hayes, of British East India Company sails up to a river, which he names Derwent.
1803 First British Settlement in Derwent (Penal Colony) 1817 First convict ships arrive directly from England 1820 Van Diemen's Land as the primary penal colony in Australia. 75, 000 convicts or 40% of all convicts sent to Australia.
South australia and tasmania. maxpptx
The Black War Truganini
The authorities designed a probation system, with 19 probation stations around Van Diemens Land. When a convict had served a term in one of the penal settlements he/she was to be given a paid job for a time with one of the colonys public works. At the end of this period he/she could get a job as a paid servant to a settler. Source: Tasmanian Government Official Website www.Tasmania.au
The Anti-Transportation Gold Rush of 1852 League 1849
Legislative Council wrote to Queen Victoria requesting that the name of the colony be changed to Tasmania. For recognition of Abel Tasman, the first European to have discovered the island some 200 years earlier. On 1 January 1856 the change of name to Tasmania was formalized. Source: http://www.tasmaniatopten.com/lists/significant_events.php

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  • 2. 22,000 BC Evidence of aboriginal occupation of the Southern Australia through cave wall engravings. 8,000 BC Evidence of aboriginal occupation through wooden Photo by: Aboriginal Art Online tools. http://www.aboriginalartonline.com
  • 3. 1627 AD First known sighting of the South Australian coast. 1789 First Smallpox epidemia. 1803 First recorded long term occupancy of Kangaroo Island. 1829 Second smallpox epidemia. 1833 South Australian Association 1834 South Australian Colonization Act 1835 South Australian Company
  • 4. The South Australian Association was founded in December 1833 to promote the concepts of systematic colonisation proposed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield and to persuade the British Government to establish a new colony in southern Australia. The original draft of the South Australia Act was produced by its members, including Wakefield. Source: Bound For South Australia http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au
  • 5. An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British Province or Provinces and to provide for the Colonisation and Government thereof States that settlement of a province or multiple provinces on the lands between 132 east and 141 east longitude, and between the Southern Ocean, and 26 south latitude, including the islands adjacent to the coastline. Put into effect on 15 August 1834. The Act reflected the views of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who saw control of land sales as a way to finance the development of a colony. Source: SA Act of 1834 by G.L Fischer http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/SA_Act.pdf
  • 6. Wealthy British merchants formed the South Australian Company in 1835. This joint stock company was a reaction to the slow take up of land orders for the Province of South Australia. Source: Bound For South Australia http://boundforsouthaustralia.net.au
  • 7. February 24 First migrant ships left England. July 27 and 30 First permanent pioneer settlers in large numbers arrived at Kangaroo Island. December 28 Governor John Hindmarsh arrived. Invasion of the Kaurna tribal lands.
  • 8. Kaurna territory extended from Cape Jervis at the bottom of the Fleurie Peninsula to Port Wakefield on the eastern shore of Gulf St Vincent, and as far north as Crystal Brook in the Mid North. Source: Kaurna Warra Pintyandi Online http://www.adelaide.edu.a u/kwp/
  • 9. July Native location in the North Park Lands. Emigration Depot in West Park Lands.
  • 10. 1838 SA Police Force established (First in Australia) 1839 Adelaide Chamber of Commerce founded (First in Australia) School for Aboriginal children by Lutheran missionaries. Dr Matthew Moorhouse was appointed Protector of Aborigines. 1851 The Gold Rush
  • 11. Making Gold a legal tender and the circulation of stamped Gold tokens. Offered to provide a mounted police escort to bring back gold sent by the miners to their families.
  • 12. South Australia was the first British Colony to issue its own coins before becoming independent. There is little doubt that the government exceeded its powers but South Australia now has the honour of having the first Australian Mint.
  • 13. 1856 Grant for responsible government Right to draft their own constitution (Photo by: State Library of South Australia parliament.sa.gov.au)
  • 14. 1856 The office of Protector of Aborigines abolished. July 1858 Aborigines Friends Association formed. 1861 Office of Protector of Aborigines restored.
  • 16. The oldest Aboriginal occupation site, Warreen, has been dated as 35, 000 years old. Signs of early occupation are the rock art (petroglyphs).
  • 17. The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Parlevar or Palawa) were the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania, located south of the continent of Australia. Before British colonisation in 1803, there were an estimated 3,00015,000 Parlevar.
  • 18. 1642 First sighting of the island by Abel Tasman. 1793 John Hayes, of British East India Company sails up to a river, which he names Derwent.
  • 19. 1803 First British Settlement in Derwent (Penal Colony) 1817 First convict ships arrive directly from England 1820 Van Diemen's Land as the primary penal colony in Australia. 75, 000 convicts or 40% of all convicts sent to Australia.
  • 21. The Black War Truganini
  • 22. The authorities designed a probation system, with 19 probation stations around Van Diemens Land. When a convict had served a term in one of the penal settlements he/she was to be given a paid job for a time with one of the colonys public works. At the end of this period he/she could get a job as a paid servant to a settler. Source: Tasmanian Government Official Website www.Tasmania.au
  • 23. The Anti-Transportation Gold Rush of 1852 League 1849
  • 24. Legislative Council wrote to Queen Victoria requesting that the name of the colony be changed to Tasmania. For recognition of Abel Tasman, the first European to have discovered the island some 200 years earlier. On 1 January 1856 the change of name to Tasmania was formalized. Source: http://www.tasmaniatopten.com/lists/significant_events.php