Timeline June 1838

Events in June 1838 2

• 1838 Myall Creek Massacre Stockmen kill Aboriginal Wirrayaraay men, women, and children in New South Wales A group of twelve armed stockmen massacred around twenty-eight unarmed Wirrayaraay Aboriginal people at Myall Creek station in New South Wales. Seven of the perpetrators were later tried and hanged, the first time white colonists were executed in Australia for killing Aboriginal people. The case remains a landmark in the history of colonial violence and its legal reckoning in Australia.
• 1838 Coronation of Queen Victoria Victoria is crowned at Westminster Abbey Queen Victoria, who had acceded to the throne in June 1837 at age eighteen, was formally crowned at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony marked the start of a reign that would last over six decades and come to define an era of British history. Large crowds gathered in London to witness the procession and celebrations.