- Tasmania is occupied by white people. The Black Wars of Tasmania last until 1830 and claim the lives of 600 Aboriginal people and more than 200 white settlers.
- William Buckley escapes from Capt. Collins temporary settlement at Sorrento & walks around Port Phillip bay. Later he is invited to join the Mon:mart clan of Wathaurong people when Kondiak:ruk (Swan Wing) declares him her husband returned from the dead. Aboriginal people believed that the dead were reincarnated in a white form. They call Buckley Morran:gurk (Ghost blood).