1827

Events

• February 22 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: 12 natives are massacred in retaliation by a party of stockmen at the Paterson River after a group of Wonnarua warriors attacked a settlement in reprisal for killing one of their dogs.
• March 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: after the death of a stock-keeper named William Walker, George Augustus Robinson received news from a settler named Robert Barr that a group of stockmen killed seventeen natives near the Jordan River.
• April 12 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: a small party of soldiers massacred a group of aboriginal people a month earlier in a gully near the River Macquarie three weeks after the deaths of two servants of settler Walter Davidson, according to a May 4th report by The Colonial Times.
• May 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: after a stock-keeper named Richard Addey was killed by Oyster Bay warriors, a reprisal party led by John Radford, the master of the murdered stockman, set off to avenge Addey's death and massacred a group of natives camping in a gully near Sally Peak. The incident was not made public for nearly fifty years until a historian named James Bonwick published an interview he had with James Gumm, one of the colonists that was involved in the massacre.
• June 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: when a group of natives were reported to have killed three shepherds and 100 sheep, two military parties were dispatched in search for the warriors. On January, 1828, a land commissioner noted in his journal that mysterious murders have taken place in the junction of Brumby Creek and Lake River.
• June 24 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: a party of six men including Corporal William Shiner surrounded an aboriginal camp and killed 30-60 people as well as 20-30 dogs, after the killing of a stockman working for T.C. Simpson. Two different accounts had been reported in The Colonial Times.
• June 26 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: a party led by John Batman set off in pursuit and several natives were reported to have been killed by Batman and his men, after a stockman working for William Field was killed.
• June 27 - American Indian Wars: the Winnebago War begins between the United States and the Winnebago tribe.
• July 30 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Raffles Bay in Northern territory, in reprisal for a soldier being wounded, Captain Henry Smyth of the 39th regiment orchestrated a massacre against 30 Iwaidja people.
• September 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Yarramanbah, an aboriginal camp is attacked by a trio of stockmen in reprisal for cattle theft. Their bodies were eventually discovered almost a year later by a settler living near Upper Hunter River, who tried to report the incident to the colonial secretary.
• September 27 - American Indian Wars: the Winnebago War ends with a United States victory, and the lead mining region in control at the time by the Winnebago is ceded to the United States.

Births

• November 3 - Hiester Clymer