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Gold Discovery In Australia

By _Haz_

  • First Specs of Gold Was Found

    First Specs of Gold Was Found
    Government Surveyor James McBrien discovers traces of gold in the Fish River, east of Bathurst.

  • Scared Governement

    Scared Governement
    The amount of gold being found is not good for the government beacuse they don't want the convicts leaving their jobs and homes.

  • Rewards For Payable Gold

    Rewards For Payable Gold
    NSW Government offers rewards for payable gold.

  • Licence

    Licence
    The Goverment introduced the Miner's Licence.

  • Eureka Stockade

    Eureka Stockade
    The diggers rebel against their licence and burn them and had a fight against the government and started the Eureka Stockade.

  • Gold Discovery In Tasmania

    Gold was discovered in Tasmania.

  • Welcome Stranger Nugget

    Welcome Stranger Nugget
    'Welcome Stranger' nugget discovered by John Deason and Richard Oates in Moliagul, Victoria. It is the world's largest nugget found to date.

  • Discovery at Spikes Gully

    Discovery at Spikes Gully
    Gold was discovered at Spikes Gully,near the Berossa Valley in South Australia.

  • Population growth

    Population growth
    The gold rushes caused large amounts of prospectors to travel to Australia from overseas resulting in mass international immigration. Australia's total population more than tripled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.