Gold Timeline

By muzza
  • Colonisation

    Colonisation
    Australia was Colonised
  • Bathurst discovery

    Bathurst discovery
    Gold is discovered in the Bathurst region of NSW
  • Discovery of Gold

    Discovery of Gold
    People found gold in Bathurst
  • Edward Hargraves

    Edward Hargraves
    Edward Hargraves returned to NSW AND claimed to have been the first to find gold near Bathurst
  • seekers

    seekers
    95,000 gold seekers arrived hoping to find gold.
  • Peter lalor

    Peter lalor
    Peter Lalor in the revolt of the Eureka Stockade
  • Diggers attacked

    Diggers attacked
    Diggers attacked Chinese Diggers at lambing flat goldfields in NSW
  • The Welcome Stranger

    The Welcome Stranger
    The "Welcome Stranger" nugget weighing 72 kilograms discovered in Victoria
  • Biggest amount of Gold

    Biggest amount of Gold
    Biggest amount of gold found ever dicovered
  • A railway was built

    A railway was built
    A railway was built from Perth to the Kalgoore goldfields of Western Australia
  • Kalgoorie

    Kalgoorie
    Kalgoories super pit produces a record 22,700 kilograms of gold.
  • Tasmanis is bad state, killing and hurting!

    Tasmanis is bad state, killing and hurting!
    A goldmine in Beaconsfield, Tasmania Collapses, killing one miner and trapping two others underground.