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41000 BC |
The skull of a giant kangaroo dating to this time was found in a cave in the thick rainforest of the rugged northwest of Tasmania in 2000. Scientists used the skull to argue that that man likely hunted to death the giant kangaroo and other very large animals on the southern island of Tasmania. Links: Tasmania, HistoryBC 
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41000 BC |
A land bridge between Australia and Tasmania formed about this time allowing people to cross into Tasmania. Two thousand years later the megafauna of Tasmania were gone. Links: Australia, Tasmania
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1804 Feb 20 |
Hobart, Tasmania, was founded as a penal colony. Links: Australia, Tasmania
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1804 |
Australian soldiers fired on an aboriginal hunting party on Tasmania and killed some 50 people. Some were salted down and sent to Sydney as anthropological curiosities. Links: Australia, Tasmania
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1979 |
John Chapman and John Siseman published their 1st edition of “Cradle Mountain Lake St. Clair,” a hiking guide of Tasmania’s Overland Track. Links: Tasmania, Books
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1996 Apr 28 |
A lone gunman, Martin Bryant (b.1967), killed 35 tourists visiting a colonial prison on the Australian island of Tasmania. He was later sentenced to 35 life terms in prison. Less than two weeks after the Port Arthur massacre, Australia banned semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. Links: Australia, Murder, Guns, Tasmania
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2004 Dec 24 |
The world's biggest earthquake in almost four years, measuring 8.1 on the Richter scale, struck off the coast of Australia's southern island state of Tasmania, but caused no damage or injury. Links: Australia, Earthquake, Tasmania
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2005 Oct 25 2005 Oct 26 |
Over 130 whales died in a mass stranding on a remote beach in Australia’s southern island state of Tasmania. Links: Australia, Whales, Tasmania
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2006 Oct 18 |
Australia’s Tasmania state unveiled an historic five million dollar (3.8 million dollars US) compensation package for Aborigines forcibly taken from their families as children. Links: Australia, Tasmania
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2006 |
Nicholas Shakespeare authored “In Tasmania,” an account of his life there since 1999. Links: Tasmania, Books
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2012 |
In Tasmania loggers and environmentalists signed the Tasmanian Forests Agreement, following a 30-year war, that secured timber supplies and protected native forests. Links: Environment, Tasmania, Trees
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2013 Nov 1 |
In Tasmania int’l. negotiations ended after China, Russia and Ukraine scuttled plans to create the world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica. The sanctuary plans were led by the Antarctic Ocean Alliance which campaigns for protecting the Antarctic seas. For the sanctuary proposals to pass, they needed backing from all 200 delegates from 25 member countries, many of which have conflicting interests. Links: Russia, Ukraine, China, Antarctica, Tasmania
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2018 Mar 3 |
Australia′s smallest state Tasmania began voting in a local assembly election, with the incumbent conservative Liberal Party stirring controversy by promising softer regulations for gun ownership if it is returned to power. Links: Australia, Guns, Tasmania
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2022 Sep 22 |
In Australia wildlife experts rescued 32 of 230 pilot whales that were found stranded on the west coast of the island state of Tasmania. Links: Australia, Whales, Tasmania
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