1838

Events

January 26 - Indigenous Australian Genocide - In reprisal for a trooper being wounded, at Waterloo Creek, approximately 40 aboriginal warriors are massacred by a party of native police forces.
June 1 - Indigenous Australian Genocide - In reprisal for attacks on settlements, a detachment of the 28th regiment killed 40 natives. Only a woman and a child were spared.
June 10 - Indigenous Australian Genocide - 28 Wirryaraay people were killed and mutilated by eleven stockmen near Myall Creek and their bodies were burned the following day. All of the perpetrators were convicted and seven of them were hanged, while the ringleader, John Henry Fleming was pardoned. This was the only known case in New South Wales where perpetrators of aboriginal massacres were convicted and hanged.