an unidentified 19th-century wreck at Koombana Bay, Western Australia, a late 19th-century Australian-built shipwreck on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, and the Puerto Pirámides I shipwreck in Argentina—have utilized metallurgical analysis to establish initial temporal ranges for the ...
This compilation of documents and lists gathers together ships’ cockets, port officers’ logs, signal charts, maps, passenger and crew lists, newspaper reports and diaries during the Californian Gold Rush and Great Fires of San Francisco, 1849-1851. Captain James Day (1808-1882), navigator, ...
The highest military honour introduced by Queen Victoria on 29th January 1856 for "valour in the face of the enemy" during the Crimean War, is the Imperial Victory Cross medal (Imperial VC). And it ranks higher than all other orders, decorations and medals. Even the most senior military off...
. The gold rush era was also the first time that Australia experienced a significant influx of Chinese immigrants. By 1861 more than 38,000 Chinese people lived in Australia, making up more than 3 percent of the population. More than 12,000 Chinese immigrants arrived in the year 1856 alone...