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  2. Australian gold rushes - Wikipedia

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    During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...

  3. Victorian gold rush - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne , which was dubbed " Marvellous Melbourne " as a result of the procurement of wealth.

  4. Timeline of Australian history - Wikipedia

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    The song "Wild One" makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit "A Pub with No Beer" becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. 1959: 1 March: Construction begins on the Sydney Opera House. It will eventually cost $102 Million. 1962

  5. History of Australia (1851–1900) - Wikipedia

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    Although gold had been found in Australia as early as 1823 by surveyor James McBrien, a gold rush began when Edward Hargraves widely publicised his discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. Further discoveries were made later that year in Victoria, where the richest gold fields were found.

  6. Timeline of the Eureka Rebellion - Wikipedia

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    14 December 1854: The Gold Fields Commission sits for the first time. The first Ballarat session of the Gold Fields Commission was held at Bath’s Hotel on 18 December 1854, with the miners allowed representation at all open hearings. Westgarth is made the chairman as Hanies' place on the commission is taken by John Hodgson MLC. [31]

  7. The Gold Rush That Changed Everything

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    The Gold Rush began in earnest in 1849, which led to its eager participants being called "49ers," and within two years of James Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, 90,000 people flocked to ...

  8. 1851: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat. 1853: Anti-Gold Licence Association formed at Bendigo and the Bendigo Petition presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe; 1854: The Eureka Stockade; 1880: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.

  9. New South Wales gold rush - Wikipedia

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    Gulgong Goldfield, New South Wales, 1872–1873, attributed to Henry Beaufoy Merlin. Gold was first officially discovered in Australia on 15 February 1823, by assistant surveyor James McBrien, at Fish River, between Rydal and Bathurst his field survey book "At E. (End of the survey line) 1 chain 50 links to river and marked a gum tree.