The Eureka Rebellion
Gold miners under the Southern Cross demanded the vote
Ballarat's diggers, angered by costly licences and police raids, built a timber stockade and raised a blue flag bearing the Southern Cross. At dawn on 3 December 1854 soldiers took it within minutes; at least 27 people died, most of them miners. Yet juries acquitted everyone charged with treason, licences were abolished, and rebel leader Peter Lalor soon sat in parliament.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — 9 years earlier
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — 6 years earlier
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — 6 years earlier
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — 5 years later
- 1861 Unification of Italy — 7 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — 1 year earlier
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — 7 years later
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — 13 years later
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — 15 years later
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 15 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 15 years earlier
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — 22 years later
Africa
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 19 years earlier
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — 7 years earlier
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — 15 years later
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — 25 years later
Asia
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 23 years earlier
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — 15 years earlier
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — 1 year earlier
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — 14 years later
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — 22 years later
Americas
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — 8 years earlier
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — 8 years earlier
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — 7 years later
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 22 years later
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Charles Darwin (aged 45)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 45)
- Karl Marx (aged 36)
- Queen Victoria (aged 35)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (aged 33)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 26)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 20)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (aged 14)
- Thomas Edison (aged 7)
- Vincent van Gogh (aged 1)