What the records say
- When
- 8 Mar 1840
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 37.50° S, 141.42° E
- Description
- massacre in Victoria, Australia
Fighting Hills massacre
Massacre in Victoria, Australia
The Fighting Hills massacre occurred on 8 March 1840 when Victorian Western District squatters killed 51 Aboriginal people of the Konongwootong gundidj clan (Jardwadjali) at The Hummocks, near Wando Vale, Victoria, Australia.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Between 40 and 60 Jardwadjali Aboriginal people are killed in the Fighting Hills massacre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Australia, los hermanos White asesinan a 51 indígenas australianos, en la Masacre de Fighting Hills”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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