1829

Events

• January 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: at Tasmania in Australia, after a series of robberies were reportedly committed in various farms, a reprisal party set out to kill the perpetrators. Nine natives were killed and three were taken to St. Paul's River. Ten natives were also killed and two of them were taken near the Eastern Marshes.
  • On the same day, shortly after the massacre at the Break O'Day Plains, ten natives were killed near St. Paul's River.
• February 18 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: a report from the Colonial Times claimed that a military party was attacked by a group of aboriginal people in West Tamar and seven of them were killed in retaliation.
• March 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: a report from the Hobart Town Courier stated that an aboriginal man with a party of six warriors were captured by a party of colonists near the Coal River at Richmond. Five of the natives were shot and the leader of the party died shortly after the incident.
• March 4 - Andrew Jackson is sworn in for his first term as the 7th President of the United States.
• March 13 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: after a reported murder of three settlers and the disappearances of two stock-keepers, a reprisal party set off in pursuit and killed four men, a woman and a child.
• March 28 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: after an aboriginal raid at a stock hut near Jones' River, a reprisal party attacked an aboriginal campsite and killed nine people. One woman was wounded and was taken to New Norfolk, where she wasn't "expected to live long". This was the first of three massacres at Clyde River.
• June 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: in response to a series of raids by aboriginal warriors, a reprisal party tried to capture the culprits. Although the magistrate ordered the officers to capture the natives without loss of life, the colonists fired upon the warriors and it was reported that "eight or ten were severely wounded".
• September 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: when John Batman arrived at an aboriginal encampment, he and his men ambushed the aboriginal people, numbering approximately 60-70 people. Batman estimated that fifteen people died of wounds and he stated that he executed two wounded prisoners.
• October 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide: after a series of raids by aboriginal warriors, historian James Bonwick was told that "without warning an expedition was fitted out in the night and a terrible slaughter took place”.

Births

Villain births

• Unknown - Black Bart

Deaths

Villain deaths

• January 28 - William Burke