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European disease often precedes European settlers, even …
Years: 1789 - 1789
European disease often precedes European settlers, even before their arrival in local districts.
A smallpox epidemic is recorded in Sydney in 1789, which wipes out about half the Indigenous Australians around Sydney: having no immunity, an estimated two thousand die.
It then spreads well beyond the then limits of European settlement, including much of southeastern Australia.
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- Britain, Kingdom of Great
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Years: 1789 - 1789
Locations
People
Groups
- Australians, Indigenous
- Britain, Kingdom of Great
- Australia, British
- New South Wales (British colony)
Topics
Subjects
Regions
Subregions