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The Lambing Flat riots flag. [citation needed] The Lambing Flat riots banner flag. [citation needed] The Lambing Flat riots were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales, Australia. They occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard ...
Blackguard Gully is a heritage-listed former Chinese mining camp and now reserve at Whiteman Avenue, Young, New South Wales, Australia.It was part of the Lambing Flat or Burragorang goldfields, and was a primary location of the anti-Chinese Lambing Flat riots of 1861.
Riots occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and Lambing Flat (now Young, New South Wales), in 1860–1861. [citation needed] There was ten months of unrest at Burrangong involving disputes against Chinese miners, where they were often driven off their 'digs'.
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13 May – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales. [11]30 June – Lambing Flat riots of Lambing Flat (Young), New South Wales [12] 6 July – Robert Palin is hanged in Western Australia following the use of Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 to secure the capital punishment of a convict for a crime not normally punishable by death.
The Lambing Flat Riots (1860–1861) were a series of violent anti-Chinese demonstrations that took place in the Burrangong region, in New South Wales, Australia. They occurred on the goldfields at Spring Creek, Stoney Creek, Back Creek, Wombat, Blackguard Gully, Tipperary Gully, and Lambing Flat.
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30 June 1861 – Lambing Flat riots White miners rioted against Chinese immigrants. 17 October 1861 – Cullin La Ringo massacre in Central Queensland.Nineteen white settlers were killed, one of the largest massacres of whites by Aborigines in Australian history.