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Aboriginal
Timeline
Budgergar, Water Dreaming
Courtesy Charlie Egalie
Club Info
Japaltjarri 1991
120.000 B.P. The Land was being cleared by use of fire in the Lake George Basin in the Southern Tablelands of N. S. W.
55.000-60.000 B.P. A site in Arnhemland in the Northern Territory where a shelter was used by people about 60.000 years ago. They used stone tools and red ochre to prepare pigment for rock painting and/or body decoration.
45.000 B.P. Rock engravings made in S.A. the earliest dated petroglyphs.
35.00 B.P. At Willandra Lakes Districts in Western N. S. W. an Aboriginal family left a
midden of mussel shells, charcoal and ash from a dinner camp.
36.780 B.P. Aboriginal underground oven from this period at Lake Mungo
N. S. W. shows continuity with recent historical times.
30.000 B.P. A man from Lake Munga area is buried in a shallow grave. His forearm bone stained with ochre.
29.500 B.P. Devils Hair in the South West of Western Australia, is home to Aboriginals who left bone tool artefacts including bone beads of split pointed macropod shin bones. The cave was occupied from this time to 6.000 B.P.
26.500 B.P. A body of a woman from Lake Munga provides earliest evidence of ritual cremation in the world. The body is prepared with ochre before cremation.
23.000 B.P. Aboriginals living at Malangangani Arnhemland and using ground edge grooved axes.
22.000 B.P. Earliest recorded occupation of the Central Desert at Piritjarra.
15.000 - 24000 B.P. Deep caves under the Nullarbor Plains at Koonalda. Aboriginal mining flint and leaving grooved designs on cave walls.
20.000 B.P. At Devils Hair engravings are being made
18.000 B.P. Miriwan Western Australia ground edge axes are in use in the Pilbara.
18.000 B.P. In Arnhemland grindstones are being used for hard fruits, seeds and vegetables. Grindstones are also being used to prepare ochre.
18.000. B.P. Art at Ubirr in Kakadu depicts now extinct animals
17.500 B.P. Rock shelter at Colless Creek on Barkly Tablelands is occupied
12.000 - 15.000 B.P. At Kow Swamp in Victoria Aboriginals were wearing Kangaroo teeth head bands similar to those in the Central Desert in the 19th Century.
12.000 B.P. End of the glacial periods, seas rise separating Tasmania from the mainland.
10.000 B.P. Aboriginals at Wyrie Swamp are using boomerangs of returning type to catch waterfowl.
9.000 - 7.000 B.P. Earliest visible sign of belief in the Rainbow Serpent. The earliest religion in the world.
6.500 - 7.500 B.P. Burial at Lake Nitchie includes a necklace of Thylacine teeth. It consists of 178 teeth from approx 47 animals
5.000 B.P. About this time a new small tool technology is developing in South Eastern
Australia. By 3.000 B.C. the technology has spead to Cape York.
1.000 B.P. Dugout canoes were being used along Australias Northern coast.
543 B.P.- 1451 AD Dutch documents record journeys of Macassan Trepangers to
" Marege" as the Macassans call Australia.
406 B.P.- 1588 AD Trade between Aboriginals and Macassans continue until it is stopped by the South Australian government in 1906.
224 B.P.- 1770 AD Cook claims to take possession of the East Coast of Australia by raising the British Flag at Possession Point of the Northern tip of Cape York Peninsula.
206 B.P.- 1788 AD Cook raises the Union Jack at Sydney Cove and the invasion begins. The Aboriginal population is more than 750.000, resistance is immediate. Within a few months of the tall ships arriving Aboriginals kill two convicts at Rushcutter Bay.
195 B.P.- 1799 AD Aboriginal resistance flares in Parramatta and Hawkesbury area.
190 B.P. - 1804 AD In Tasmania settlers are authorised to shoot Aboriginals.
170 B.P. - 1824 AD Conflict with Aboriginals and Whites in the Bathurst area becomes serious so
martial law is declared
164 B.P. - 1830 AD Governor Arthur gets 5000 men to line up across Tasmania and walk the length of the Island to force the Aboriginals into the Tasmanian Peninsula.
160 B.P. - 1834 AD Western Australia's Governor Stirling leads 25 mounted Police against Aboriginals following attacks on white settlements. Aboriginal account says a tribe was wiped out.
159 B.P. - 1835 AD Blankets and goods were exchanged for 250.000 hectares of land
157 B.P. - 1837 AD In London a Parliamentary Select Committee reports that genocide is accuring.
156 B.P. - 1838 AD The first Aboriginal Protectorate is established for Port Phillip. 300 Aboriginal resistance fighters attack 17 white men killing 10. Some 28 Aboriginals are killed in return. At Myll Creek N. S. W. 12 white men shoot and burn 28 Aboriginals. 7 of the white men were hung in December, but there was an outcry from the white sector, why anyone should hang for killing an Aboriginal.
146 B.P. - 1848 AD N.S.W. Police troops are brought to Queensland to kill Aboriginals to open up land for white settlement.
132 B.P. - 1851 AD Protection Board for Aboriginals is setup and continued until 1957
126 B.P. - 1868 AD First Aboriginal Cricket team left Sydney for England. 150 Aboriginals killed for
resisting arrest in the Kimberleys.
125 B.P. - 1869 AD Act of Protection and Management of Aboriginals passed in Victoria.
122 B.P. - 1872 AD Overland Telegraph line connect Adelaide to Darwin and cuts Aboriginal land down the middle.
118 B.P. - 1876 AD Tasmania's Truganini dies
100 B.P. - 1894 AD Jandamurra declares war on white invaders in the West Kimberley. He held them at bay for 6 years.
86 B.P. - 1908 AD The invalid and old age pension act provides social security for whites. But not for the Aboriginal people.
84 B.P. - 1910 AD Enquiry is held after the massacre in the Kimberley's.
82 B.P. - 1912 AD Maternity allowance is introduced. But not for Aboriginals.
76 B.P. - 1918 AD In the Northern Territory the Aboriginal Ordinance forbids mining on Aboriginal
Reserves.
66 B.P. - 1928 AD Conniston massacre whites admit to shooting 31 Aboriginals after 1 white dingo
trapper is killed. Aboriginal records show lots more died.
63 B.P. - 1931 AD Arnhemland Aboriginal Reserve is declared.
56 B.P. - 1938 AD On 26th Jan Australian Aboriginal Conference is held in Sydney. First of many
demonstrations against inequality and injustice. In the celebrations of N.S.W.
Aboriginals were trucked in from Western N.S.W. to Sydney and threatened with
starvation unless they played the role in the re-enactment of the events of 26th Jan 1788.
53 B.P. - 1941 AD Child endowment was brought in. But not for Aboriginals.
52 B.P. - 1942 AD Darwin is bombed by Japanese. Many Aboriginals relocated to
' control camps '. Some Aboriginals used to make up a special reconnaissance unit.
45 B.P. - 1949 AD Commonwealth electorial act extends the franchise to Aboriginal Ex Servicemen.
41 B.P. - 1953 AD Northern Territory Legislative Council passes a Bill giving Citizenship rights to all Northern Territory Aboriginals, except those in State care. Atomic tests conducted at Emu South Australia, a black cloud passes over, leaving many Aboriginals with radiation sickness.
38 B.P. - 1957 AD Another atomic blast at Maralinga South Australia. More Aboriginals ill.
32 B.P. - 1962 AD Aboriginals given the right to vote after a referendum.
31 B.P. - 1963 AD In July a bark petition against mining on the Gove Peninsula is drawn up by the
Elders of effected clans, but is refused recognition because of lack of 'signatures'.
29 B.P. - 1965 AD Charlie Perkins leads a freedom ride through Western N.S.W. protesting
discrimination and living conditions. Federal Government adopts a policy of
intergration of Aboriginal people.
27 B.P. - 1967 AD Referendum is held in May to change Federal Constitution discriminating against Aboriginal people being counted in the census and giving Aboriginals equal rights.
23 B.P. - 1971 AD Noonkanbah station worker walk off - Gunatj elders, Milirrpum and others take on Nabalco Pty Ltd and Commonwealth of Australia in the ' Gove Land Case ', following on from the Bark petition - Larrakia people ' sit in ' on Baget Road, Darwin as a protest to the theft of their land.
21 B.P. - 1972 AD Justice Woodward of the Aboriginal Land Commission delivers his first report, leaving the way for a new approach to Aboriginal land rights.
19 B.P. - 1975 AD World Council of Indigenous Peoples is founded. An Aboriginal Land Fund is started to buy land for Aboriginal Corporate bodies anywhere in Australia.
18 B.P. - 1976 AD Aboriginal Land Rights N.T. passed by Federal Parliament. Recognition of Aboriginal Land ownership to about 11,000 Aboriginal people. The Pitjantjatjara Council is formed [ Uluru area ].
17 B.P. - 1977 AD First land claim hearing for Crown Land at Borroloola commenced. Eye and Health Program begins.
16 B.P. - 1978 AD Northern Territory Sacred Sites Ordinance. Prosecution for trespass and desecration of Aboriginal Sites is passed.
15 B.P. - 1979 AD Aboriginal Development Commission is established.
14 B.P. - 1980 AD Pitjantjatjara Council advises Aboriginal Affairs Minister of the possible radioactive contamination of Aboriginal people from Wallatinna Station South Australia.
13 B.P. - 1981 AD Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act South Australia is passed and a large area of the State is returned to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara people.
12 B.P. - 1982 AD Aboriginals in Hermannsberg Mission granted free hold title.
11 B.P. - 1983 AD Aboriginal delegation of 5 people go to Geneva to United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
1988 Tens of Thousands Aboriginals march the streets of Sydney on 26th Jan to celebrate their survival over 200 years since invasion.
1991 Royal Commission into Deaths in Custody.
2000 Correboree 2000 - Half a million people of all races walk Sydney Harbour Bridge for
Reconcilliation...............................
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