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The area was originally known as Bendigo's Creek and named after an employee on a local property who was nicknamed "Bendigo" after the English fighter, famous prize William "Bendigo" Thompson. The area was settled in 1851and proclaimed a municipality in 1855, a borough in 1863 and a city in 1871. Originally, the city was known as Sandhurst in 1891 but was restored to Bendigo.
The region is home to the tradition of Dja Dja Wrung (Jaara people) and takes in Loddon, Avoca and Campaspe rivers of the riparian area West of downtown Victoria. Bendigo is the largest city Dja Dja Wrung country. Other towns and villages are Wedderburn, Castlemaine, St Arnaud, Maryborough, Boort, Heathcote and Maldon. Today Bendigo is still the cultural center of Dja Dja Wrung country. The two totems half the population are Jaara Waang Bunjil the Eaglehawk and crow.
Some clans Dja Dja Wrung include: Wangaro-bulluk, Beal-bulluk, Burong-bulluk, Terack-bulluk, Learka-bulluk (Liarga-baluga) – near Mount Tarrengower admitted that Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Patrick Farrell, wives of workmen on the Ravenswood long, found gold at â € ~ The Rocksâ € ™ – now a specific location can be visited at the junction of Bendigo Creek and Maple Street. The discoverers are honored near Golden Square with a steel sculpture to our pioneers, erected 150 years later in 2001.
Bendigo's first gold rush occurred in November 1851, when miners near Castlemaine (Forest Creek) heard about the new discovery. Alluvial gold was found in the area that is currently known as the Golden Square, and the miners followed the gold by the stream for what is now Epsom and the creek to the current suburb of Kangaroo Flat. Other discoveries were quickly made in the streams tributary to Eaglehawk and Diamond Hill.
Following the rush on Camp Hill, now the current Rosalind Park in central Bendigo. The â € € œdiggersâ that the miners were called, have amounted to thirty thousand are from around the world, but mainly in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France and the Americans. The population China has reached several thousands in the early gold rush, but their numbers declined rapidly as the nineteenth century progressed. The Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo celebrates the contribution of the Chinese gold mining, the cultural and commercial life of the growing city.
With the discovery of gold, Gold Commissioners were appointed in 1852 to administer the Victorian and colonial law, from the government camp, the Commissioner Panton deals with issues arising mainly from the license for gold. In addition to the imposition of the license or thirty shillings per month, the diggers also objected to the method of collection by the police at the time. Between June and August 1853, Bendigo diggers began to wear a red ribbon, symbol their objection to the Licensing and arbitrary government. On August 28, 1853, ten thousand miners marched on the government side and offered ten shillings for their license in September, commissioners Panton and Wright could not accept this gesture but did not obtain licenses for September. The day passed without anger and without shedding Blood. The laborers have finally succeeded in having the license replaced by Minera € ™ s true.
The red ribbon angry protests by miners against the authorities of the Goldfields in 1853 were ordered, compared with the later episodes of Eureka in Ballarat. However, the former Red Ribbon Movement on the Bendigo field is increasingly seen as important in the development of democratic process in Australia
The city Big www.bendigo.ws Victoria Australia is located approximately 150 kilometers north-west of Melbourne. The city is bounded by the Shire of Campaspe in the north, and Strathbogie Shire Mitchell Shire in the east, Mount Alexander Shire in the south and the Loddon Shire to the west. It covers an area of 299,897 hectares (2,998.97 km2) and according to the 2006 census had a population of 97,774 people. Itâ € ™ s rich history, architecture and relaxed rural lifestyle attracts many tourists every year and is a must for people visiting or toured Victoria, Australia
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