List of conflicts in Australia - Wikipedia
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List of conflicts in Australia is a timeline of events that includes wars, battles, rebellions, skirmishes, massacres, riots, and other related events that have occurred in the country of Australia's current geographical area, both before and after federation.
Conflicts fought between Indigenous Australians and European settlers are known collectively by some historians as the Australian frontier wars.
- 1629: The Dutch East India Company sailing ship Batavia struck a reef near Beacon Island off the Western Australian coast. A subsequent mutiny and massacre took place among the survivors.
- 1788: Bloody Point[1][2]
- 1790–1800: Sydney Cove War[3]
- 1790–1816: Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
- 1790–1802: Pemulwuy's War
- 1794: Battle of Toongabbie
- 1795: Battle of Richmond Hill
- 1797: Battle of Parramatta
- 1799–1805: Black Wars[4][5][6]
- 1802–1810: Tedbury's War
- 1809: Battle of Bond's Farm
- 1814–1816: Hawkesbury Nepean War
- 1816: Battle of Appin
- 1816: Battle of the Nepean
- 1816: Nepean Campaign
- 1790–1802: Pemulwuy's War
- 1901: The Battle of Racecourse Hill[8]
- 1911: Gan Gan massacre
- 1914–1918: First World War
- 1914: Battle of Cocos
- 1915: Battle of Broken Hill
- 1915: Mistake Creek massacre
- 1916: Mowla Bluff massacre
- 1916: Liverpool riot
- 1917: Raid on the Queensland Government Printing Office
- 1918: Darwin rebellion
- 1919: Red Flag riots
- 1919: Battle of the Barricades
- 1919: HMAS Australia mutiny
- 1920: Broome race riots
- 1922: Sturt Creek massacre
- 1923: Victorian Police strike
- 1924: Bedford Downs massacre
- 1926: Forrest River massacre
- 1928: Coniston massacre
- 1929: Rothbury riot
- 1932: Emu War
- 1932–1934: Caledon Bay crisis
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- 1939–1945: Second World War
- Axis naval activity in Australian waters
- 1941: Sinking of HMS Sydney
- 1942: Attack on Sydney Harbour
- 1942: Shelling of Newcastle
- 1942: Attack on the Dureenbee
- 1943: Shelling of Port Gregory
- 1943: Sinking of AHS Centaur
- 1943: Convoy GP55
- 1944: German submarine U-862
- Air raids on Australia, 1942–43
- 1942–1945: North Western Area Campaign
- 1942: Bombing of Darwin
- 1942: Attack on Broome
- 1942: Koolama
- 1943: Raid on Darwin (2 May 1943)
- 1942: Townsville mutiny
- 1942: Battle of Brisbane
- 1944: Cowra Breakout
- Axis naval activity in Australian waters
- 1979: Star Hotel riot
- 1984: Milperra massacre
- 1987: Brewarrina riot
- 1988: Fremantle Prison riot
- 1989: Four Clubs–Mongrel Mob War
- 1996: Parliament House riot
- 2004: Redfern riots
- 2005: Cronulla riots
- 2005: Macquarie Fields riots
- 2012: Sydney anti-Islam film protests
- 2020: COVID-19 protests in Australia
- Military history of Australia
- History of Australia
- Australian frontier wars
- List of massacres of Indigenous Australians
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- ^ Gapps, Stephen (7 June 2019). "Joggers pass the murder site that speaks to Sydney's truth". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ a b cnet. "Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline". Australian Frontier Conflicts. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
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- ^ Nichols, Michelle (2004). Pictorial History Hawkesbury Shire (revised and reprinted 2005 ed.). Sydney, Australia: Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd. p. 43. ISBN 9780908272785.
- ^ "Dreaming on the Riverfarm - Stories from the Hawkesbury Chapter Four: The impact of settlement". www.westernsydney.edu.au. Western Sydney University. 15 April 2023. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
- ^ a b c cnet. "Australian Frontier Conflicts – Timeline". Australian Frontier Conflicts. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ "The Battle of Racecourse Hill. An Aboriginal Tourney Over an Abduction. Honors Divided". The Evening Star (Boulder, Western Australia). 4 March 1901. p. 2. Retrieved 8 July 2023.