Editing 1824

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== Events ==
* March 11 - The [[Bureau of Indian Affairs]] is founded, serving as a successor agency to the Office of Indian Trade.
* May 31 - [[Indigenous Australian Genocide]]: in New South Wales at Bathurst Plains, in reprisal for attacks on settlers, five colonists set out to kill the perpetrators. Two weeks later, three bodies of Wiradjuri women were found and it was concluded that the five men got into a fight with 30 warriors. The five men were charged with manslaughter and were found not guilty.
* September 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Turon River in New South Wales, a detachment of the 40th regiment, along with ten settlers and a few aboriginal guides, massacred more than 45 natives before decapitating their heads and boiling them to the skull. This account was taken from a missionary named Lancelot Threlkeld.
* September 5 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: a reprisal party of stockmen killed 16 Wiradjuri people, including their leader, Blucher.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* May 8 - [[William Walker]]
* August 6 - [[William Palmer]]
== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* July 19 - [[Alexander Pearce]]