Darkey Flat massacre

Date	circa 1845
Location	Darkey Flat (now known as Pratten), Queensland
Result	Massacre of aboriginal Australians

Belligerents

European settlers

aboriginal Australians

The Darkey Flat Massacre is a massacre of Aboriginal Australians by European settlers that supposedly took place some time between 1845 and 1853. There is no eyewitness, first-hand, or clear documentary evidence relating to the massacre and there is some doubt as to whether it actually occurred.^[1]

References

↑ Maurice French, "THE GREAT "DARKEY FLAT MASSACRE' MYSTERY: Oral Tradition, Popular History, and Empirical Evidence" accessed 24 February 2014

Australian frontier wars

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Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars (1795–1816)
Tedbury's War (1804–05)
The Appin Massacre (1816)
Bathurst War (1824)
Black War (Tasmania) (1828–32)
Cape Grim massacre (1828)
Port Phillip District Wars (1830–50)
Yagan Resistance (1831–33)
Convincing Ground massacre (1833/34)
Battle of Pinjarra (1834)
Broken River (1836)
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Myall Creek massacre (1838)
Campaspe Plains massacre (1839)
Blood Hole massacre (1839)
Maria massacre (1840)
Gippsland massacres (1840s)
Eumerella Wars (1840s–1860s)
Rufus River massacre (1841)
Battle of One Tree Hill (1843)
Darkey Flat Massacre (circa 1845)
Cullin-La-Ringo massacre (1861)
Flying Foam Massacre (1868)
Kalkadoon Wars (1870–90)
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