<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eureka_Stockade" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of the Eureka Stockade">Battle of the Eureka Stockade</a>: More than 20 gold miners at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballarat,_Victoria" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ballarat, Victoria">Ballarat, Victoria</a>, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences.