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Event mentions

• Massacre at Bulloo Downs
  1 Aug 1865 – 31 Aug 1865 — Bulloo Downs — massacre
  This is the second of two massacres committed in this region, see Thouringowa Waterhole, Bulloo River, Bullawarra, Thargomindah)
  Source: Sydney Mail, 2 Sep, 1865 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/16551220; Dillon, 2019; The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser, 25 Jun 1864, p 4 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/188349532; Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 12 July, 1864, p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18705276; Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 9 August, 1864, p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/139549; Sydney Morning Herald, 28 March 1865, p 6 Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 1 April, 1865, p 5 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/140033; Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 6 June, 1865, p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18706592/140167; The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 7 Dec 1865, p 4 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18700008; The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser, 14 Sep 1865, p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18701195; Queensland Times, Ipswich Herald and General Advertiser, 9 Jul 1868 p 3 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/123355190; The Brisbane Courier, 9 Dec 1864 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1265443; Dillon, 2020 https://pauldillon.org/2019/04/08/the-murder-of-john-francis-dowling-and-the-massacre-of-300-aborigines/; McKellar, 1984, p 57 ↗