Eureka Stockade

noun

1. a violent incident in Ballarat, Australia, in 1854 between gold miners and the military, as a result of which the miners won their democratic rights in the state parliament

Example Sentences

Extinction Rebellion is the Anthropocene’s answer to the UK working class Chartists, the US Declaration of Independence and the defenders of the Eureka Stockade.

From The Guardian

A host of alternative dates for Australia Day have been proposed, including 1 January, the day the modern nation-state of Australia came into being in 1901; 25 April, Anzac Day, commemorating the 1915 landing by Australian troops at Gallipoli, part of the British Expeditionary Force’s unsuccessful invasion of that peninsula during the first world war, and; 3 December , the date of the 1854 Eureka Stockade, an uprising by goldminers against repressive colonial taxation and regarded by many as the birth of Australian popular democracy.

From The Guardian

Gold miners staged the failed Eureka stockade rebellion against British taxation in 1854.

From Reuters

Karl wished to join the insurgents—as they were called—at the Eureka Stockade; and although myself anxious that their number should be augmented as much as possible, I endeavoured to persuade him against having anything to do with the disturbance.

From Project Gutenberg

On the 3rd day of December, 1854, at half-past four o’clock on that holy Sabbath morning, the people in the Eureka Stockade were attacked by English soldiers, and troopers in the pay of the Victorian Government.

From Project Gutenberg