Timeline Sunday 10 June 1838

Events on Sunday 10 June 1838 1

• 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.