About: Cullin-la-ringo massacre

An Entity of Type: ChangeOfState100199130, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, known historically as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous people that occurred north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia on 17 October 1861. Nineteen men, women and children were killed in the attack, including Horatio Wills, owner of Cullin-la-ringo station. It is the single largest massacre of colonists by Aboriginal people in Australian history. In the weeks afterwards, police, native police and civilian posses carried out "one of the most lethal punitive expeditions in frontier history", hunting down and killing up to 370 members of the Gayiri Aboriginal tribe implicated in the massacre.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, known historically as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous people that occurred north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia on 17 October 1861. Nineteen men, women and children were killed in the attack, including Horatio Wills, owner of Cullin-la-ringo station. It is the single largest massacre of colonists by Aboriginal people in Australian history. In the weeks afterwards, police, native police and civilian posses carried out "one of the most lethal punitive expeditions in frontier history", hunting down and killing up to 370 members of the Gayiri Aboriginal tribe implicated in the massacre. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 9239897 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 13902 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1098109586 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:align
  • right (en)
dbp:bgcolor
  • #F9F9F9 (en)
dbp:quote
  • "It is not easy that a place so gifted by nature should be the scene of such a cruel massacre". (en)
dbp:source
  • — P. F. MacDonald, squatter who sold Cullin-la-Ringo to Horatio Wills (en)
dbp:width
  • 260 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • -24.0 148.08333333333334
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, known historically as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous people that occurred north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia on 17 October 1861. Nineteen men, women and children were killed in the attack, including Horatio Wills, owner of Cullin-la-ringo station. It is the single largest massacre of colonists by Aboriginal people in Australian history. In the weeks afterwards, police, native police and civilian posses carried out "one of the most lethal punitive expeditions in frontier history", hunting down and killing up to 370 members of the Gayiri Aboriginal tribe implicated in the massacre. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Cullin-la-ringo massacre (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(148.08332824707 -24)
geo:lat
  • -24.000000 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • 148.083328 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:deathPlace of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License